April 2, 2025 Planning Board Regular Meeting Minutes

In connection with the site triangles, the distances come from a book. The industry standard ones are those published by AASHTO. Those are the ones that were referenced before. And as mentioned before, the ones shown on the plan, Mr. Downey would say, are even a little bit conservative compared to what is actually required for safe operation. The only requirements for putting a site triangle on a plan is referencing the book, and then you place the triangle at the correct distances. You want to make sure it's free of fixed obstructions. In urban environments, it's essentially an impractical requirement to prohibit parking within them, because it would effectively prohibit parking throughout every urban area, everywhere, where driveways are permitted for not just their use, but every other driveway. And considering the grade of the applicant’s driveway, Mr. Downey would say this driveway is better equipped to handle the presence of parked vehicles than most would be. BOARD QUESTIONS Mr. Klein asked Mr. Downey the parking requirement of 25 spaces, does that include the residential and office at the same time. Mr. Downey said yes, that is the sum of the 2. Mr. Klein asked Mr. Downey could explain how the parking spaces will be managed. Mr. Downing said this project provides enough parking to satisfy both of the uses requirements directly added to each other. Mr. Downey also added that he will defer to their site engineer as far as if there's any plan to actually sign or manage those spaces. He is not aware of any interaction of that nature, but given the available parking supply, he doesn't think it's required for a functional operation for this use. Mr. Klein asked Mr. Downey about visitor parking, people were asking what would happen if somebody's going to come visit somebody in one of these apartments. Is there enough parking for that? Mr. Downey said yes, that visitor parking component's actually built into the parking requirement for residential. Those requirements are set forth by the RSIS, the Residential Site Improvement Standards, and those rates, 1.8 spaces per unit or two spaces per unit, et cetera, they actually have a component built in there that accounts for visitor parking of half a space per unit. PROFESSIONAL QUESTIONS Mr. Scott asked Mr. Downey to clarify whether or not cars can make the left turn out of that parking lot, being that it

accounts for visitor parking of half a space per unit. PROFESSIONAL QUESTIONS Mr. Scott asked Mr. Downey to clarify whether or not cars can make the left turn out of that parking lot, being that it is a double line? Mr. Downey said yes, they can both in the existing and proposed conditions. When you have a straight center line, you are permitted to make left turns toward private driveways. It's the opposite case for a public street intersection. So, if you see an intersection with a solid double yellow, it's actually not permitted in that case, but for driveways, it is. PUBLIC QUESTIONS Stanley Shapiro at 12 Edgehill Road asked Mr. Downey about basing his testimony about the traffic use from a book, from estimates or averages in a book between residential and conservative, not from the actual experience at that site. Mr. Downey said correct, it was based on IT trip generation projections for office and residential uses. Stanley Shapiro asked Mr. Downey what is going to be the impact of this additional variance that this applicant is seeking. Mr. Downey said first, they compared it to the existing use using the IT numbers. The second component they mentioned is even if they consider the existing use as being completely vacant, the trip generation would still be