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Supporting Documentation · Mar 12, 2025

2 5 25 WO PB Draft Minutes

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13 • Mr. Cardoza asked is there a railing for the handicap lift. Mr. Cox said yes, they have a safety mechanism. Once you go in, the door locks then the machine goes up, it does not operate if the door is open. • Mr. Cardoza asked will you have staff maintaining the walkway, especially shoveling snow off the lift. Mr. Cox said yes, they will have a contractor that salts and shovel. This will be in their agreement and will have the liability on them to ensure its always nice and clean. • Mr. Cardoza asked does the lift have its own power and backup. Mr. Cox said it has its own power and it has its own backup and the emergency cut off is usually right next to the building. • Mr. Cardoza asked how would you make sure it’s only used as intended. Mr. Cox said anyone can use the lift, if kids are playing with the lift is really up to the parent. They can’t lock the lift, there is a key, but if you lock the lift then it will be pointless and no one can use it. • Mr. Cardoza asked, looking at the markings for the light poles, are these all the existing light poles and are there any plans to change anything there. Ms. Bullock said yes, they are but they have no plans to change anything as they meet the criteria of the ordinance. • Mr. Cardoza asked does the shed door next to the handicap space in the parking lot connect to anything. Mr. Cox said it goes to a utility room and the architect will be changing the location. • Ms. Kapferer asked, the fence that is located at the road side of the property on Main Street, is that being removed. Ms. Bullock said yes, it is. • Ms. Kapferer asked, can you describe how a fire truck would access the building. Ms. Bullock said the only way that would be possible is having a fire truck enter head on. There is no way for an emergency vehicle to be able to maneuver especially if the parking spots are filled. PROFESSIONALS QUESTIONS • Mr. Haizel asked. the walkways you have on either side of the parking, how wide are they. Ms. Bullock said I can give you an estimate, the setback itself is 6 feet off the property so they’re probably 4 feet. • Mr. Haizel asked is it possible to put wheel stops that would limit how much the cars would overhang over the walkway. Ms. Bullock said they can put car bumper blocks one foot off the curb so that the frontage of the vehicle would not entirely overhang onto the sidewalk. • Mr. Haizel asked if that

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ng over the walkway. Ms. Bullock said they can put car bumper blocks one foot off the curb so that the frontage of the vehicle would not entirely overhang onto the sidewalk. • Mr. Haizel asked if that going to do anything to the depth, there won't be any cars sticking out the other end into the circulation. Ms. Bullock said no, it will not. • Mr. Haizel asked if anyone had looked at the potential of doing an ADA ramp across the front of the building. Ms. Bullock said yes, they did look at that, but it would change the access and the configuration of how the building is accessed with the sidewalk. • Mr. Scott asked if there was a survey performed for you to prepare this site plan. Ms. Bullock said yes, they did an outbound and topographic survey, which is compiled on these drawings. • Mr. Scott asked if the handicap space meets the ADA requirements with the slopes, based upon the ADA regulations, you cannot have more than 2% slopes in either direction and based on the plan, there’s a lot of slopes in the area of the handicap space. Ms. Bullock said yes, it does have an excessive slop and they are going to look into having the cross slope leveled off and they have to work with they have to achieve the requirements. • Mr. Scott asked, being that you are planning on milling and overlaying the site, you will

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