PB 24 01 West Essex Highlands Inc Draft Resolution

39. The affordable units were to be built on the shorter side of the buildings but were interspersed among market-rate units. Some of the market rate apartments had dens and were slightly larger than the affordable units. All of the apartments had the same HVAC, washers/dryers and similar bathrooms. The Applicant agreed to accept as a condition that all the apartments will have materially similar appliances in both the affordable units and market rate units. 40. Applicant’s traffic engineer, Karl Pehnke, testified that Oval Road, which provides access to the site from Eagle Rock Avenue is excessively wide and has the capacity to accommodate the traffic from the project. Additionally, Applicant is committed as per the Settlement Agreement, to work with the Township and County of Essex (as Eagle Rock Avenue is a county road) to install a traffic signal at the intersection of Eagle Rock Avenue and Oval Road and it is anticipated that “A” level service will be provided at the intersection of Eagle Rock and Oval Road once that signal is installed. 41. The site has three (3) points of access: from Warner Road, Kuzik Drive and emergency access from Howell Drive. The Applicant was concerned that daily traffic would be a burden on Kuzik Drive and so they offered that Kuzik Drive access would be for emergency access only (gated) and therefore they requested a de minimus exception to RSIS. 42. The Applicant requested two deviations from RSIS, specifically: the proposed closing of Kuzik Drive access (with emergency access exception) creating a loop road where there are greater than 1,000 average daily traffic trips, and, removal of a section of sidewalk located along the south of Building A, extending to the main roadway to the