September 3, 2025 Planning Board Regular Meeting Transcript - WEHI

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 37 and it has to be included with a water analysis and a funding plan, because who's going to pay for it. It's indicated -- in the first traffic study it was indicated that it was warranted, but that warrant never addressed the thousand foot proximity rule that it's in the MUTCD, which was passed I think in December of last year. So that was not looked at. In addition all the through traffic was not taken into consideration with improvements that can be made for sidewalks. Some of the sidewalk improvements that are not called for and the applicant has put in a road that we think is deficient in width. Places where a fire could breakout should be addressed. The preponderance of fire, forest fires in the state recently, and we had a problem here at this site, not with a forest fire but with a lightning strike of a tree that closed Oval Road for a couple hours and there was no way to get in and out. Now, that's an important thing. I approved once a project that had only one way in and out and there was an accident at that intersection and it was only nine, I think it was nine to ten single family dwelling units, but even though there was only nine or ten the accident occurred at the street, blocking the bulb of that intersection, blocking the intersection so that nobody