O28 Litwornia West Essex Highlands Traffic Report 82225 FINAL

Page 2 From RSIS: Paragraph 5:21-1.5 Scope and Applicability: (a) These rules shall govern any site improvements carried out or intended to be carried out or required to be carried out in connection with any application for residential subdivision, site plan approval, or variance before any Planning Board or Zoning Board of Adjustment created pursuant to the Municipal Land Use Law (N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.); or in connection with any other residential development approval required or issued by any municipality or agency or instrumentality thereof. (b) Except as is otherwise specifically provided, these rules shall control all matters concerning the construction, alteration, addition, repair, removal, demolition, maintenance, and use of any site improvements constructed by a developer in connection with residential development. Except as otherwise required by rules or other permit requirements of the Department of Environmental Protection regarding stormwater management, the rules are to be interpreted as the minimum required to ensure public health and safety, and the maximum that may be required in connection with residential development Cul-de-sac To maintain safe development standards, cul-de-sacs were specifically defined and the number of trips per cul-de-sac was limited. Townships throughout the state have often limited the length of cul-de-sacs with different design standards. Therefore, the RSIS specifically addresses cul-de-sacs. Cul-de-sacs are defined and described, and the amount of traffic that can be accommodated from a cul-de-sac is limited. A cul-de-sac is specifically defined as a street with a single means of ingress and egress and having a turnaround, the design of which may vary (RSIS 5:21-1.4). Cul-de-sacs are further defined in Table 4.2 as: “A street with a single means of ingress and egress and having a turnaround, the design of which may vary. A divided - type entrance roadway to at least the first cross street with median of sufficient width to ensure freedom of continued emergency access by lanes on one side. Parking lots with a single means of ingress and egress shall not be included within the definition of cul-de-sac. In addition, the average daily traffic maximum is to be 250 vehicles per day.” Since this is exceeded the project cannot be approved. Warner Road from Oval Road is the only access to the cul-de-sac already

dition, the average daily traffic maximum is to be 250 vehicles per day.” Since this is exceeded the project cannot be approved. Warner Road from Oval Road is the only access to the cul-de-sac already existing with 300 units and the RSIS rules are already exceeded without any new development. Paragraph b above from RSIS controls the addition, alteration of an existing cul-de-sac and based on the “rules” no new development is supported by the current limited access on Warner Road. The proposed development violates the definition of a Cul-de-sac as follows: 1. The extension of Warner Road, the only way into the development of 496 mid-rise apartments is via a single roadway that, while now partly divided, is not wide enough to provide emergency access by lanes on one side of the median. It does not allow for two-way traffic on either side of the divided roadway. Thus, it does not conform to the RSIS.