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 91 It's more of a layout issue. And there's two standards for a cul-de-sac. There's one where you're doing a residential subdivision serving single family homes and the ADT limitation on that is 250 trips for one point of access. The other is what they call a multifamily cul-de-sac, which I just described Road D would be if limited it to Howell. And in that, for some reason, RSIS allows up to a 1000 trips. Same issue, same number of units in there, same number of people or more people obviously, just two different standards. But RSIS does say that what obviates a cul-de-sac is if you have another means of access for the free movement of emergency vehicles and one of the options that they offer, which is often done, not ideally, but often done, is what they call a Boulevard. You separate the inbound and the outbound, you make both wide and the theory is if a tree falls across one side emergency vehicles can still go up and down the other side. What's been done over the years is, as an alternative to that and better design, is just an emergency access connection some place else in the site. In this site you have the Oval Road emergency access that connects into Essex Fells. You have the emergency access that's proposed to Howell Drive. All of that provides the ability for your