July 31, 2024 Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

41 (Pages 158 to 161) Page 158 1 around the whole community. 2 MR. KLEIN: Okay, good. That was it. 3 Thanks. 4 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Council President 5 Rutherford. 6 COUNCILMAN RUTHERFORD: Thank you, Mr. 7 Chair, and I want to thank my colleagues for asking 8 so many questions, some of which I won't have to ask 9 him. 10 So since we're on this slide, the 11 greenery for the louvers, so is the entire wall 12 green or is it just the louvers? Does it go up from 13 the ground? 14 MR. APPEL: So imagine that you have 15 planting that starts in the ground and then there's 16 a hole here (indicating) or a recess in the facade 17 and you have a grid work of power-coated aluminum, 18 and that the -- the plants grow -- 19 COUNCILMAN RUTHERFORD: Greenery will 20 grow around it. 21 MR. APPEL: -- up and into the -- into 22 the spaces and it just creates a -- like almost a 23 translucent green feel to the facade. 24 COUNCILMAN RUTHERFORD: Got it. 25 MR. APPEL: It's actually very Page 159 1 attractive. 2 COUNCILMAN RUTHERFORD: I understand. 3 So some of this may be redundant and I do apologize 4 in advance, but back to the tandem stalls. So -- 5 and I want to thank my colleague for asking the 6 question, but I was a little unclear on the answer. 7 So for the tandem stalls for parking, will the two 8 stalls -- the two spots that are in tandem, will 9 they be assigned to the same unit? 10 MR. APPEL: Single unit, correct. 11 COUNCILMAN RUTHERFORD: Okay. Is 12 there any material separating the stalls, even if 13 it's not every single stall? 14 MR. APPEL: There's not -- 15 COUNCILMAN RUTHERFORD: Structural 16 columns. 17 MR. APPEL: There's structural columns 18 typically every three parking stalls. Other than 19 that, they're right next to each other. 20 COUNCILMAN RUTHERFORD: All right. 21 You talked about EV spots, EV stalls in the garage, 22 and I know there's some on the exterior as well. I 23 was a little unclear on your testimony. Is it a 24 total of 15 percent of the -- how many -- what is 25 the percentage of -- Page 160 1 MR. APPEL: 5 percent initially. 2 COUNCILMAN RUTHERFORD: Right. 3 MR. APPEL: -- so that's going to be, 4 it's going to start off needing 5 percent of your 5 overall parking count, and then an additional 5 6 percent phases in as make-ready stalls to phase in 7 and another 5 percent after that, so -- 8 COUNCILMAN RUTHERFORD: So over what 9 period of time

5 overall parking count, and then an additional 5 6 percent phases in as make-ready stalls to phase in 7 and another 5 percent after that, so -- 8 COUNCILMAN RUTHERFORD: So over what 9 period of time will they be phased in? 10 MR. APPEL: I think he said three 11 years? 12 COUNCILMAN RUTHERFORD: So each year, 13 you're going to do an additional 5 percent? 14 MR. APPEL: I'm not a hundred percent, 15 I think it's three years. 16 COUNCILMAN RUTHERFORD: All right. In 17 the building itself, are there any recyclable 18 materials used? The actual structure of the 19 building. 20 MR. APPEL: So there's a lot of 21 materials that will have recycled content and 22 there's a little bit of that discussion in the 23 settlement agreement as well. So we will comply 24 fully. 25 COUNCILMAN RUTHERFORD: I think they Page 161 1 need you to talk into the mic. 2 MR. APPEL: Oh. I'm sorry. 3 COUNCILMAN RUTHERFORD: Unfortunately, 4 these mics don't work when you're right on them. 5 MR. APPEL: So the settlement 6 agreement has, to my understanding, has some 7 provisions for green materials, so we will, where we 8 can, utilize recycled content materials. 9 COUNCILMAN RUTHERFORD: You said you 10 weren't going to go through the full certification 11 process. Can you describe for me what you would 12 expect your -- and by that, I'm talking about the 13 LEED certification or the other types of 14 certification for -- 15 MR. APPEL: Energy Star or -- yeah. 16 COUNCILMAN RUTHERFORD: Can you 17 describe for me what or is it possible for you to 18 describe for us what this would be similar to? Is 19 it gold standard? Is it platinum? Is it green? 20 You know, I don't -- is it possible to -- based on 21 what you're incorporating into the -- into the 22 building, and you gave plenty of testimony about 23 that, is it possible to estimate what it would be 24 equivalent to? 25 MR. APPEL: I -- I couldn't do that