CME Associates Review 1

XX ASSOCIATES Chairman and Members of the West Orange Township Planning Board June 26, 2024 Re: West Essex Highlands, LLC (PB 24-01) Our File No. VWRPO179.01 Preliminary & Final Site Plan - Review #1 Page 4 a) Item #23 — List of required regulatory approvals or permits. b) Item #46 — Solid waste management plan. c) As required by NJAC 13:40-7.2(a)1, a signed and copy of a survey of the property being developed must be submitted to the Board with the site plan application. The Applicant has requested the following waivers: a) Item #13 — Metes and bounds description showing dimension, bearings, curve data, length of tangents, radii, arcs, chords and central angles for all centerlines and right- of-way, and centerline curves on streets. b) Item #22 — Development stages or staging plans. c) Item #42 — Proposed street names. d) Item #47 — Site identification signs, traffic control signs, and directional signs. e) Item #48 — Sight triangles. As required by the RSIS, each residential street shall be classified and designed to meet the standards for one of the street types defined in Table 4.2. Therefore, the Applicant must submit a report which classifies each street and demonstrates that the streets have been designed in conformance with the RSIS requirements. The Applicant should clarify if the proposed parking will be assigned. If assigned parking is proposed, then the plans must be revised to identify the assigned parking spaces and the visitor spaces. In addition, the RSIS stipulates that the required parking includes provisions for guest parking at the rate of 0,5 spaces per dwelling unit. The guest parking must either be provided for on street or in common parking areas. It shows on the architectural plans that many of the under building parking spaces will be tandem. The Applicant should provide testimony to the Board to demonstrate that the tandem spaces will be assigned to the same unit as stipulated in §25-19.e.4 of the Ordinance. The plans show that access is proposed to the site from Warner Road and Kuzik Drive. However, the Applicant has requested a de minimis exception from the RSIS to not provide access to the property from Kuzik Drive. The RSIS stipulates that a street with a single means of ingress and egress is limited to a maximum average daily traffic of 250 vehicles. The average daily traffic for a 496 unit mid-rise apartment

. The RSIS stipulates that a street with a single means of ingress and egress is limited to a maximum average daily traffic of 250 vehicles. The average daily traffic for a 496 unit mid-rise apartment project will be approximately 2,728 trips which requires a second means of ingress and egress. As stipulated in the RSIS, an application for an exception shall be filed in writing with the Planning Board and shall include: a) Astatement of the requirements of the standards from which an exception is sought; S:\West Orange\Planning Boarc\VWRPO179.01 - West Essex Highlands, Inc\Review #1 06-26-24.docx