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 81 roadway grades. He implied that there were roadway grades on this site greater than ten percent. To be clear, for minor access roadways RSIS does permit up to a ten percent grade. In fact RSIS permits a little bit more than that in areas such as this where you have hilly terrain, you could actually add 2 percent and not be in violation. So in fact Mr. Anderson could have designed up to 12 percent on profiles on the roads. None of Mr. Anderson's road profiles exceed ten percent. They vary, seven percent, four percent, they're all over the place. But they are certainly compliant and Mr. Anderson has testified to that and he continued to represent the design of his plans. With regard to grades, Mr. Litwornia also seemed to suggest that he thought based upon his looking at the plans that some of the side street approaches, the driveway approaches to the, to the, to the minor access, to the minor arterial, which is supposed to be graded at five percent within 50 feet of the intersection for reasons that he explained, snow and stopping and so forth, he thought they were exceeding that. The plans are clear Mr. Anderson did design to RSIS standards. In my review of them and talking to Mr. Anderson, we meet the 50 feet, five percent grading, in fact many of the driveways are graded at 2 percent or less. I didn't