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 34 Can you put the drawing back up for a second. CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: State your name, please. THE PUBLIC: Rachel Klein, Howell Drive. CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Thank you. THE WITNESS: Mr. Seel, did you prepare this picture, this rendering? THE WITNESS: No, this document is from this firm here, who is the architect. All we did is put on this information here, just to show the -- just to show the proximity of the, of the load that would be shed by the building onto the underlying soil rock. THE PUBLIC: So the landscape in there it rises and falls, this isn't actually realistic to what's in there. So at points where the actual slope, there's only one part of your slope that is really that high and then for almost the entirety of it's heading north, it actually goes lower and lower. So this is right above Mayfair, I know that house, and I know how the slope goes. So when the slope drops ten feet, seven feet, 20 feet, what's that going to change? Because that rendering -- because the building as you see is not exactly in a straight line, but it's not so far off either. It's following more or less the way that the slope, the ridge does drop, but there's very -- there's only one point in the entire forest where the slope