July 31, 2024 Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

39 (Pages 150 to 153) Page 150 1 MAYOR McCARTNEY: Good evening, Mr. 2 Hoffman. 3 MS. McGOVERN: Put your name on the 4 record and spell your last name, please. 5 MR. HOFFMAN: Mark Hoffman. 6 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Spell your last 7 name, please. 8 MR. HOFFMAN: H-O-F-F-M-A-N. 9 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Thank you, sir. 10 M A R K H O F F M A N, owner representative, is 11 duly sworn/affirmed by the Board attorney. 12 MR. PLOCKER: Thank you, Mark. You 13 heard the mayor's question about parking. 14 MR. APPEL: Yes. 15 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Can we just say who 16 Mark Hoffman is for the record? 17 MR. PLOCKER: Oh, I'm sorry, Mark, can 18 you please identify yourself? 19 MR. HOFFMAN: Sure. I'm a partner 20 within the Garden Homes organization, I'm 21 principally responsible for the design, development, 22 construction of the project that's being presented 23 this evening. 24 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Thank you. 25 MR. PLOCKER: Okay. And Mark, did you Page 151 1 hear the mayor's question about whether residents 2 would be required to pay for parking? 3 MR. HOFFMAN: Yes. 4 MR. PLOCKER: Okay. Could you please 5 address that one question? 6 MR. HOFFMAN: Sure. Typically, 7 they're not required to pay for parking and 8 residents are assigned spaces within the community. 9 There are times, and I don't think that'll happen 10 here, where individuals that don't have cars might 11 not have to -- 12 MAYOR McCARTNEY: Um-hum. 13 MR. HOFFMAN: -- they might get a 14 decreased rent or something of that nature but we 15 really don't have that issue here because we won't 16 have street parking and based on the location of the 17 development, you know, no one's really going to have 18 an opportunity to park anywhere but in a parking 19 space near the building. 20 MR. PLOCKER: Okay. Thank you, Mark. 21 MAYOR McCARTNEY: Thank you, Mr. 22 Hoffman. Thank you. 23 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Thank you, Mr. 24 Hoffman. 25 MAYOR McCARTNEY: Mr. Appel, one more Page 152 1 question about, you referred to the amenities in the 2 different buildings. 3 MR. APPEL: Um-hum. 4 MAYOR McCARTNEY: Can you elaborate on 5 that? Is it an amenity like a game room; is it a 6 workspace area? 7 MR. APPEL: So you're talking about 8 other than the clubhouse -- 9 MAYOR McCARTNEY: Yes. 10 MR. APPEL: -- in Building D. 11 MAYOR McCARTNEY: In the buildings 12 themselves. 13 MR. APPEL: So, typically, that would 14 be kind of a club room, so just a lounge or

se -- 9 MAYOR McCARTNEY: Yes. 10 MR. APPEL: -- in Building D. 11 MAYOR McCARTNEY: In the buildings 12 themselves. 13 MR. APPEL: So, typically, that would 14 be kind of a club room, so just a lounge or sitting 15 area. 16 MAYOR McCARTNEY: Um-hum. 17 MR. APPEL: It's only Building D that 18 will have its own gym. 19 MAYOR McCARTNEY: Right. Okay. Let 20 me just check. I think that's it. Thank you very 21 much. 22 MR. PLOCKER: Thank you. 23 MR. APPEL: Great. Thank you. 24 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Mr. Klein. 25 MR. KLEIN: Good evening, Mr. Appel. Page 153 1 I just want to talk about Building D a little bit. 2 The length of Building D, I thought I saw some 3 numbers, like one piece was 200 feet and 400, then 4 another 2. Isn't that like 800 feet long, roughly. 5 Yeah, I think it's that the lower portion I don't 6 know if you can zoom in enough to see them, but it 7 just seems like it's going to be difficult for 8 emergency people to get around the building if they 9 have to rescue somebody from the second floor 10 balcony or something like that? 11 MR. APPEL: So you have access along 12 one entire side of the building, plus your two end 13 caps. 14 MR. KLEIN: Right. 15 MR. APPEL: So you do have limited 16 area to come around. You can see the buildings in 17 there, the legs are wrong. On the elevation used, 18 the buildings look longer because we didn't -- we 19 made true elevation each side, so it makes the 20 building look a little bit longer than it really is, 21 but at least it gives you an accurate pictorial 22 representation of each piece of facade. But the 23 code is interesting with -- with fire safety, is 24 that we are fully conforming in here and actually 25 over-conforming, but you actually get credits for