July 31, 2024 Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

29 (Pages 110 to 113) Page 110 1 would be a certain time that the -- and I don't have 2 an answer for you on when that would be shut off, 3 whether it's 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 -- 4 MR. CARDOZA: Um-hum. 5 MR. APPEL: -- but I would assume 6 ownership would set reasonable standards for that. 7 MR. CARDOZA: Okay. How is it 8 physically, because we're looking at an aerial view, 9 how is it physically divided from -- how are these 10 side by side -- 11 MR. APPEL: So where you have two of 12 these private terraces meeting, we've actually 13 created planters so that this will be a vegetated 14 planter with basically a screen similar to what you 15 would kind of find as a -- as a fence in somebody's 16 backyard, so it would be an element going across, 17 but we provided some planters in here. When we get 18 to these main areas, maybe some of these areas, 19 rather than being a hard fence, may also be planters 20 also, like we're showing a planter over here, maybe 21 these will end up wrapping around, but the intent in 22 here is that you will have -- the residents will 23 have a little bit of privacy and it's meant to be 24 kind of a neat, cool place to hang out, that's... 25 MR. CARDOZA: Okay. Thank you. In Page 111 1 lieu of one of our other Board members, Pete 2 Smeraldo not being here, former fire chief, I'm just 3 going to ask some questions about accessing the 4 roofs. Full stairwells to access each roof or do we 5 have hatches? 6 MR. APPEL: No. We are bringing up -- 7 oop. We have full stairs providing access, so we 8 have a stair -- a full stair and another full stair 9 and this lobby and stair go down to the sky lounge, 10 which is directly below this, so this side has two 11 stairs -- oop. One stair over here, another stair 12 over here (indicating), so we have two stairs to 13 handle the access to the roofs. 14 MR. CARDOZA: And that holds true for 15 each building? 16 MR. APPEL: Correct. 17 MR. CARDOZA: Okay. So no hatches. 18 MR. APPEL: So that -- and actually, 19 on the other buildings, we will typically, where we 20 don't have an occupiable roof, we will have one 21 stair go up; that way, for maintenance, fire access, 22 safety, you will have at least one stair. Where you 23 have an occupiable roof, you have to have two. 24 MR. CARDOZA: Okay. Good, terrific. 25 Yeah, that's what we want to hear. I know Pete Page 112 1 loves full stairwells as opposed to

tair. Where you 23 have an occupiable roof, you have to have two. 24 MR. CARDOZA: Okay. Good, terrific. 25 Yeah, that's what we want to hear. I know Pete Page 112 1 loves full stairwells as opposed to hatches. 2 MR. APPEL: And there will be -- and 3 there will be standpipes and there will be -- we've 4 already checked the heights per NFPA sprinkler code 5 and -- so all the -- all those things that we want 6 to make sure worked. 7 MR. CARDOZA: All right, terrific. 8 You mentioned the alarm system, a signal reaching 9 the emergency responders directly? 10 MR. APPEL: It's a monitored system, 11 so it will usually go to a monitoring station that 12 will contact the first responders. 13 MR. CARDOZA: Okay. Do you have -- 14 MR. APPEL: Yeah, and there will be a 15 Knox-Box on each building as well for the -- 16 MR. CARDOZA: That's fine. Okay. Are 17 you proposing AEDs be available and accessible in 18 any... 19 MR. APPEL: I haven't gotten -- that, 20 I haven't gotten that far on. 21 MR. CARDOZA: Okay. Yeah, we'll want 22 to revisit a condition and especially around the 23 gyms, especially around the gyms and tennis area, 24 any physical activity especially. 25 Okay, you mentioned that, generators, Page 113 1 emergency lighting. 2 The natural ventilation that you 3 mentioned, that was in regards to the garage only, 4 correct, when we saw the visual -- 5 MR. APPEL: That's. 6 MR. CARDOZA: -- rendering? 7 MR. APPEL: That is correct. 8 MR. CARDOZA: Okay. 9 MR. APPEL: That's only for the podium 10 level of the garage. 11 MR. CARDOZA: The large windows, are 12 those treated in any way; what are we doing for 13 protection from heat and glare? 14 MR. APPEL: So the settlement 15 agreement actually provided fairly rigorous U values 16 for all the window systems, so you're already at a 17 high-performance window per the settlement 18 agreement. 19 MR. CARDOZA: And the architectural 20 panel, low-maintenance materials, you mentioned, 21 that was -- that's facade, correct? 22 MR. APPEL: That's facade -- 23 MR. CARDOZA: Okay. 24 MR. APPEL: -- that's exterior. 25 MR. CARDOZA: The trash compactor, do