July 31, 2024 Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

19 (Pages 70 to 73) Page 70 1 gives more opportunity, um, opportunity to be 2 responsive to residents. 3 So the typical unit configurations are 4 shown on Drawing PB-4.7. And I'm not going to pull 5 that up and walk through the design in there because 6 I wanted to keep in mind that while the overall 7 building and massing is set with the design, the way 8 the interior units are configured sometimes shift 9 slightly a couple of inches one way or another way 10 to take advantage of structural issues, structural 11 concerns and architectural development following the 12 approvals, and this is because we bring drawings for 13 an architectural submission for the Planning Board 14 to a schematic completion, as opposed to the site 15 design is brought to full completion. Some we have 16 a lot of work still to do in here, but this is an 17 accurate depiction of what we're proposing, but 18 there's a little bit of some of the internal 19 workings of the building that will develop over 20 time. 21 Now, all of the buildings share a 22 similar design motif. They use similar palliative 23 materials that's shown here on the rendering. One 24 of the things that's a little different is Building 25 D. It incorporates additional amenity spaces as Page 71 1 well as a rooftop outdoor amenity deck as well. 2 Building D also incorporates higher 3 interior ceilings. We have made that building 10- 4 foot ceiling heights as opposed to 9 feet and all of 5 the buildings are conforming with the height 6 provisions in the ordinance. 7 So parking. This was discussed a 8 little bit in the prior testimony and I'm sure 9 you'll have more about this when the traffic 10 consultant comes up as well. So the project was 11 designed with a mix of surface spaces, surface 12 stalls, as well as covered spaces, internal garage 13 spaces under the building, as Mr. Anderson 14 explained. All of these were designed to meet RSIS 15 and, in fact, exceed the ratios that are provided in 16 RSIS. 17 So, typically, below the buildings, the 18 spaces are assigned. One of the questions raised by 19 the Board professionals was with regard to tandem 20 stalls. We have used tandem stalls on numerous 21 buildings. They're efficient, they work very well, 22 but there's a caveat. They need to be assigned to a 23 single residential unit, and it's no different than 24 having a townhouse with a garage and if my wife

They're efficient, they work very well, 22 but there's a caveat. They need to be assigned to a 23 single residential unit, and it's no different than 24 having a townhouse with a garage and if my wife was 25 parked in the garage and I was parked in the Page 72 1 driveway, I've got to move my car out, let her pull 2 her car out and all is fine. It's the same thing 3 with a tandem stall in a common garage. 4 So all of the surface parking will not 5 be assigned, so all of the surface spaces will be 6 available for both residents as well as guests. We 7 comply with the half a stall per unit, which is a 8 requirement of RSIS. 9 Now, another small caveat in here is 10 Building D, as Mr. Anderson explained, has mostly 11 internal garage parking, not surface stalls, so we 12 had to make a portion of those garages not secured, 13 in other words, that they would not be able to have 14 a gate on the outside opening to the garage, that 15 gate would be put internal to allow the requisite 16 number of stalls to meet the RSIS provisions. 17 So another item that was questioned was 18 with regard to EV stalls, electric vehicle. They're 19 provided per the ordinance and applicable state 20 laws. Mr. Anderson placed at each building one 21 handicap and one standard surface stall that would 22 be EV. This is something that we coordinated with, 23 but it was not fully updated on our architectural 24 submission. So the balance of the stalls for EV 25 compliance are going to be placed inside the Page 73 1 garages, and while we show some of these locations, 2 I would represent that the overall number will be 3 met but the location may vary because we don't know 4 exactly where the utility company is going to allow 5 us to put our transformer and bring power in, so 6 we'd like to keep all of these things clustered 7 close to our electrical distribution for efficiency. 8 So this ordinance requires that there 9 be 5 percent of the overall parking stalls to be for 10 EV charging and additionally, provisions for make- 11 ready stalls for another 5 percent and 5 percent 12 phased in the future. We will comply with all of 13 the requirements in here, and as I indicated, Mr. 14 Anderson is showing his stalls on the revised site 15 plan, the balance of the EV stalls are proposed to 16 be internal to the buildings. 17 So in doing everything that we're 18 doing, we're actually permitted to

showing his stalls on the revised site 15 plan, the balance of the EV stalls are proposed to 16 be internal to the buildings. 17 So in doing everything that we're 18 doing, we're actually permitted to take a 10 percent 19 credit on our parking, but I understand Mr. Anderson 20 has not taken that credit so that even adds a little 21 bit to the potential additional stalls that are 22 available, and the other thing that I would mention 23 is with these EV stalls, what we like to do is plan 24 for the future. We're not going to put in extra 25 charges, but we want to make sure the building has