September 17, 2025, Planning Board Special 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 25 122 looking at the site plan that Mr. Anderson put together, and my question is this, that the, you know, this whole development goes into Warner Road and then goes into Oval Road and then to Eagle Rock and there's that one entrance and exit. So my question is that access, emergency access point that goes into Essex Fells is so close to Eagle Rock, I mean it's not like it's on the far end, it's right there. So it's still, you know, even from the point of the access road it seems like the whole things a cul-de-sac. So my question is, I don't understand? THE WITNESS: Yeah, I respect that and the fact is the way RSIS has chosen to establish these standards recognizes and -- recognizes that emergency vehicle access is required at a certain level and there was some selectivity in that decision making but the fact that, that an emergency access is provided to Howell, the emergency access exists out to Essex Fells under the standards that are developed obviate the definition of the site being a cul-de-sac, because there's more than one point of access for the freedom of emergency vehicle movement. That's just the definition that's been chosen and established in the Residential Site Improvements Standards. So with that, as I said, while it's not applicable because in terms of this site