July 31, 2024 Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

31 (Pages 118 to 121) Page 118 1 MR. CARDOZA: Yeah. 2 MR. APPEL: -- site plan view? 3 MR. CARDOZA: What is the -- yeah. 4 MR. APPEL: So I can go to -- 5 MR. CARDOZA: Well -- 6 MR. APPEL: The trouble is this 7 background may be a little older that -- over here 8 (indicating). 9 MR. CARDOZA: Okay. 10 MR. APPEL: So this all is, I think, a 11 little bit -- Paul, this is a little -- this is an 12 older background that was used when we did this. 13 MR. ANDERSON: Correct. 14 MR. APPEL: So this building is pretty 15 close, but this building over here turned around so 16 it faces this parking lot. 17 MR. CARDOZA: And the lower -- the 18 smaller building towards the bottom is the kennel. 19 MR. APPEL: That's a kennel going 20 through -- basically in this area over here 21 (indicating), so the idea is that you pull in over 22 here and you go back and this parking lot is shared 23 between the maintenance building, which has very 24 little parking need, and this kennel building, which 25 also has very little parking need, so it just seemed Page 119 1 to be a good shared arrangement over here. The 2 difference is, instead of this building sitting over 3 here, it was moved up in here to engage that parking 4 lot (indicating). 5 MR. CARDOZA: Okay. As pertains to 6 the Chem -- now, I'm not a dog owner so I don't 7 know. What is the scope of this building? I assume 8 you're going to be -- dog owners would be grooming, 9 I don't know what else, we're not talking about 10 overnight boarding of these animals, correct? 11 MR. APPEL: So that -- that portion of 12 the scope in here, I would probably defer that to 13 ownership to discuss because that is not as clearly 14 developed as all the other pieces of the, uh, of the 15 project. 16 MR. CARDOZA: Okay. 17 MR. APPEL: It's a C -- we were 18 looking -- the whole model for this is, I know the 19 owner was looking at several different models, I 20 would leave it to him on which of those models is 21 the closest fit to where he's posturing a kennel. 22 MR. CARDOZA: Okay. And I understand 23 that you're still working it out. I would like, you 24 know, an explanation of the full intent of the use 25 of the kennel, especially if there is, you know, a Page 120 1 possibility of, say doggie daycare or something like 2 overnight boarding, you know, something to ensure 3 that the animals are being monitored and safe, et 4 cetera. 5 Can you

you know, a Page 120 1 possibility of, say doggie daycare or something like 2 overnight boarding, you know, something to ensure 3 that the animals are being monitored and safe, et 4 cetera. 5 Can you look at the garage? And I 6 think I'm just about done. 7 MR. APPEL: Which -- which, um -- 8 which -- 9 MR. CARDOZA: Any of the garages. 10 MR. APPEL: So -- I mean, I can do... 11 MR. CARDOZA: Okay. So just to 12 clarify, all of the handicapped accessible parking 13 spaces are single spaces, not tandem spaces, 14 correct? 15 MR. APPEL: Always, yes. 16 MR. CARDOZA: Okay. Does that hold 17 true for electric charging? 18 MR. APPEL: So the electric charging 19 can be anything, so what we need to -- what we 20 always need to do, just for FHA, we need to make 21 sure that everywhere we put a charger, every type of 22 stall is covered, so if you have a handicapped 23 stall, you would have to have a charger at one of 24 these, just, you know, just so that you have that 25 diversity. Normally in here, these charges will be Page 121 1 a single charger but often will have two or three -- 2 can serve as two or three different vehicles, so 3 they're often placed where they can serve as 4 multiple vehicles. They can be put at a tandem 5 stall or a single stall. 6 MR. CARDOZA: Okay. 7 MR. APPEL: Either work. 8 MR. CARDOZA: All right. I'm looking 9 at some of these angles with single stalls, sharp 10 corners, and I'm wondering, will some of these be 11 marked for compact vehicles only? 12 MR. APPEL: So where we need to, we 13 would. In some cases, we actually have larger 14 spaces that accommodated storage bins at the foot of 15 the cars, so in most of these cases, we actually had 16 extra -- extra space. What's unique about here is 17 anyone coming here is coming here because they have 18 an assigned stall. So they know, to get the easiest 19 way to pull into this stall is they're going to pull 20 in this way or something, or if they want to get to 21 this stall, it may be easier to come around the left 22 side rather than the right side, but because they -- 23 it's their stall, they're not, you know, circling 24 around finding something, it's actually quite 25 efficient and they kind of know how to maneuver