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West Essex Highlands – Application in West Orange Township, Essex County, NJ • RSIS and access • Emergency access is required for fire trucks, ambulances, auto accidents, tree blockage – there is none. • Proposed access to Howell Road not approved by both towns as this is a township borderline. Deed restrictions prohibit road thru lots. Terrain is also too steep. • Location is through parking circle on top of steep hill. Cars backing out of head in parking will block egress blindly. • Egress into existing neighborhood has minimal access already. • Parking on sloped curve and parking lot entry at slope/curve as plan shows is dangerous. 21

Access to Howell Road – Issues SP-49 also slope at driveway, sight distances 22

Site Plan Application Issues • Applicant needs current survey • Survey and site plan lack meets and bounds • Application lacks warrant analysis for Eagle Rock Avenue – Oval Road signal • Application lacks plan for turning queues at Oval onto Eagle Rock Ave and Eagle Rock Ave onto Oval Road • Turning queues not sized for ADT • The inclusion of EV parking may preclude the use of tandem parking 23

N.J.A.C. Tit 5, Ch 21 – RSIS – EV’s • Federal and State Guidelines for EV charging station require 15% of parking be ready to operate and • A third of them operable. • EV stations can’t be counted in parking provided because many more users can be residents than the required operating stations and users must rotate in and out to non EV parking • No credits can be taken for standard parking because then residents would be short required parking for each residential unit. • Application is far short of required EV parking as CME noted in their memo to the Planning Board 24

West Essex Highlands – Application in West Orange Township, Essenx County, NJ • Eagle Rock Avenue and Oval Road signal issues: • County involvement required but none noted. • Additional right of way space may be required to fit the turning lanes. • A separate contract is required since applicant removed the construction of the traffic signal and warrant analysis from the applicant 25

West Essex Highlands – Application in West Orange Township, Essex County, NJ • Application lacks plan for construction vehicles – heavily loaded with trees, rock and building materials • Application lacks plan for water and sewer pipe routing which should be on public streets of which there are none. • The utilities must be run at code required depths and rock is within that depth. Blasting will be necessary. • Basins proposed will also require blasting. • Blasting will cause structural damage to the foundations of existing residences – will applicant repair any and all cracked foundations? 26

TABLE 4.2 RESIDENTIAL STREET HIERARCHY DEFINITIONS • RESIDENTIAL ACCESS** • Lowest order, other than rural street type, of residential streets. Provides frontage for access to lots and carries traffic with destination or origin on the street itself. Designed to carry the least amount of traffic at the lowest speed. All, or the maximum number of housing units, shall front on this class of street. • *Residential access streets of “loop” configuration, that is two ways out, should be designed so no section conveys an ADT greater than 1,500. Each half of a loop street may be classified as a single residential access street, but the total traffic volume generated on the loop street should not exceed 1,500 ADT, nor should it exceed 750 ADT at any point of traffic concentration. • Application lacks two ways out and ADT is far higher than 1500. Appliation should be rejected as it does not conform to RSIS 27

TABLE 4.2 RESIDENTIAL STREET HIERARCHY DEFINITIONS • RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD** • A type of residential access street conforming to traditional subdivision street design, and providing access to building lots fronting on a street, and parking on both sides of street. • **Applicant may choose either the RESIDENTIAL ACCESS or the RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD street type for new streets. See section 4.8(b) for specific right-of-way and cartway width requirements for new streets that are a continuation of an existing street. 28

TABLE 4.2 RESIDENTIAL STREET HIERARCHY DEFINITIONS • MINOR COLLECTOR • Middle order of residential street. Provides frontage for access to lots and carries traffic of adjoining residential access streets. • Designed to carry somewhat higher traffic volumes than lower order streets such as rural and residential access streets, with traffic limited to motorists having origin or destination within the immediate neighborhood. Is not intended to carry regional traffic. • Each half of a loop-configured minor collector may be classified as a single minor collector street, but the total traffic volume conveyed on the loop should not exceed 3,500 ADT, nor should it exceed 1,750 ADT at any point of traffic concentration. • Oval Road is not a minor collector because it does not meet RSIS requirements. • This application far exceeds these street designations and application should therefore be rejected. 29

TABLE 4.2 RESIDENTIAL STREET HIERARCHY DEFINITIONS • Cul-de-sac • Marginal access street A rural street is a street that serves dwellings on lots that are one acre or greater, AND primarily serves as access to abutting building lots, AND has no on-street parking, AND has lot-to-street access designed so vehicles do not back out of lots onto the street. Rural streets shall only connect to rural streets, rural lanes, or mixed-use collectors. However, a rural street shall not connect two mixed-use collectors. • A rural lane is a street that serves dwellings on lots that are two acres or greater, AND primarily serves as access to abutt ing building lots, AND has no on-street parking, AND has lot-to-street access designed so vehicles do not have to back out of lots onto the street Rural lanes shall only connect to rural streets, rural lanes, or mixed-use collectors. However, a rural lane shall not connect two mixed-use collectors. • A service road that provides a secondary means of access to lots. On the same level as residential access street, but different standards apply. No parking shall be permitted; alleys should be designed to discourage through traffic. • 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, shall not be considered part of a Cul-de-sac. Parking lots with a single means of ingress and egress shall not be included within the definition of cul-de-sac. • Cul-de-sac had ADT limit of 250. • This application far exceeds this street designation and application should therefore be rejected. 30