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 39 ways to handle it is to have the road that goes down have a level spot in it. And the level spot is almost like a swale across the road to lower it and also work with the cross slope. Have a higher cross slope than the normal two and a half percent, which is the standard, standard cross slope with the DOT and local roads. So you have to have that modified to help remove the flooding that is occurring now. And if you go to Upton Road you can see that it's a 40-foot paved roadway with minimal cross slopes. So that road in that area creates a lot of flooding. And the slopes are quite obviously a problem when you see some residential homes in Verona have guide rails and have to have -- have to go back and forth across the front lawn to get up to their garage and they have guide rail on front lawns. I've never seen that before in a residential house. Where you have guide rails in the front lawn to keep people from falling off the driveway as they go into their garage. The important point to make is that the slopes are so severe that some additional design has to be put in to the roadways and the designs have to be modified all over and they have to be done to meet RSIS standards and ADA standards and FHWA standards. And there are no -- and other standards for the electric vehicle charging