August 14, 2024 Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

21 (Pages 78 to 81)21 (Pages 78 to 81) Page 78 1 property. 2 MR. APPEL: The lights that will be 3 included as part of the building -- 4 MS. KLEIN: Yeah. 5 MR. APPEL: -- that's what I can 6 testify to, not what a resident could -- 7 MS. KLEIN: But they are going to have 8 balconies facing -- 9 MR. APPEL: There are units that have 10 balconies and I've given testimony that the lighting 11 was designed in a certain way, down lights, so that 12 it would minimize glare coming off the building. 13 And I believe the testimony with regard to 14 generators is that generators were being proposed 15 for providing security and gate controls, you know, 16 so people can get in and out of the garage, not the 17 entire building, on emergency power, so it's very 18 small, limited generators. 19 MS. KLEIN: Thank you. 20 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Thank you. 21 Please state your name and spell your 22 last name for the record. 23 MR. SHARRET: Sure. Good evening. 24 Jonathan Sharret, S-H-A-R-R-E-T. I also live on 25 Howell Drive. Page 80 1 the site engineer places that building, but we made 2 numerous adjustments to the building to make sure 3 that it would fit and work with the -- where the 4 site engineer was able to place the building. 5 MR. SHARRET: So the site engineer 6 determined that it should be placed seven feet away 7 from the ridgeline. 8 MR. APPEL: Well, seven feet is just 9 one -- is the closest point. Many of the areas, I 10 think Mr. Anderson testified that there's many areas 11 that are significantly larger than that. 12 MR. SHARRET: Sure, but I'm talking 13 about the pinch point. So would it be possible to 14 move Building D further away from the ridgeline? 15 MR. APPEL: That would be outside of 16 my expertise. 17 MR. SHARRET: Okay, but the way that 18 you designed the building accommodated for the 19 seven-foot distance from the ridgeline. 20 MR. APPEL: That's correct. 21 MR. SHARRET: Okay. And you never 22 considered whether to move the building further away 23 from the ridgeline. 24 MR. APPEL: Outside of what, you know, 25 that was really a site engineering process. Page 79 1 I had a couple questions about Building 2 D. You had testified last time that at one point, 3 Building D is only about six or seven feet off of 4 the ridgeline, correct? 5 MR. APPEL: Yes, I believe seven feet 6 to the ridgeline was the closest point. 7 MR. SHARRET: And why was it decided 8 to

Building D is only about six or seven feet off of 4 the ridgeline, correct? 5 MR. APPEL: Yes, I believe seven feet 6 to the ridgeline was the closest point. 7 MR. SHARRET: And why was it decided 8 to build Building D so close at that point to the 9 ridgeline? 10 MR. APPEL: This was a balance of 11 designing the building as well as the roadways in 12 dealing with all the other constraints, so this is 13 what was believed to be the best placement. 14 MR. SHARRET: Was there ever any 15 considerations to move Building D further away from 16 that ridgeline? 17 MR. APPEL: I don't -- I don't know 18 all of the steps that the site engineer took, I just 19 know where the landing point was, and there was a 20 lot of investigation and this was deemed to be the 21 best location. 22 MR. SHARRET: Were you involved in any 23 of the decision-making as to where to place the 24 building? 25 MR. APPEL: We adjusted the building, Page 81 1 MR. SHARRET: Do you know if the site 2 engineer ever considered moving it further away from 3 the ridgeline? 4 MR. APPEL: I don't know all the 5 iterations prior to this. 6 MR. SHARRET: Maybe the questions will 7 be the same answer, but you had testified also that 8 Building D is about 106 feet away from the homes on 9 Howell Drive, correct? 10 MR. APPEL: I don't believe that I 11 gave that testimony of 106 feet. 12 MR. SHARRET: I could be wrong but I 13 have it in my notes that somebody testified that 14 it's about 106 or so feet off of the homes on Howell 15 Drive. 16 VOICE: (Inaudible) 17 MR. APPEL: That is likely a dimension 18 that Mr. Anderson provided to the property line. 19 MR. SHARRET: So, again, the same 20 question. Why was it decided to build Building D? 21 That's the closest point to the property line, 22 right? So of all the existing homes in the area, 23 the building that is closest to the property lines 24 is Building D, so why was it decided to build 25 Building D there, closest to the existing homes?