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 78 project under the Residential Site Improvement Standards has three points of access. It connects at Warner Road, it connects at Kuzik and it has -- and it connects at Howell. Those are three points of access. Two of them are proposed to be controlled as emergency access. One, Howell, fully emergency access. Two, at the determination of this board, would be emergency access. As such the internal roadway systems are not a cul-de-sac, they're classified as a minor collector. And the design standards that were used by Mr. Anderson in designing the site meet the requirements as defined in the RSIS for the design of a minor collector road system. I would go on to indicate that Mr. Litwornia further started to discuss that you should take both sites together, which clearly RSIS does not require, and inferred that the existing Highlands area is actually a cul-de-sac. And that's actually not the case either. Oval Road has two points of access. It has the connection to Eagle Rock Road, which is used on a daily basis, and it also has an emergency access connection into Essex Fells by the extension of the emergency access easement that's enjoyed between the connection of Warner and over to the private road section in the easement that exists. So there are two points of access