Remarks by Rachel Streitfeld
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“Yeah, that that seems good. Maybe even till six. Again, like this intersection is particularly tight. We all know it. OK. You mentioned at the beginning of the presentation when you were going through the history of the lot that 7918 is still going to be staging there.”
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“Okay, why the 8% compact parking and how are you gonna manage that? Here's how I feel about compact parking. No one wants to park in a compact parking space ever. It doesn't matter how small their car is. Why would you want to park in a smaller space and be closer to other cars?”
“I'm so sad that you guys spent money printing that board because it is completely illegible.”
“That's appropriate. Okay. Traffic study. Traffic study. A lot of neighbors have asked if the traffic study was quote unquote cumulative in terms of taking into account projects that have been approved in the area for the last couple of years. Requests were made to understand how traffic on the causeway is going to be impacted by this project, as well as traffic obviously on West Drive and whether or not the traffic study and staff, if you could respond to this as well, I want to understand what we looked at and how we're reviewing the traffic. traffic study. Does the overall cumulative impact…”
“And the question is really for the zoning attorney. I don't know where he went.”
“So Craig, it's on you now. Sorry. No problem.”
“Okay, so the answer for all my neighbors, yes, traffic study is considering all of these approvals and all of those trips. What does it mean to revisit the traffic analysis to ensure continued compliance? Is that a real thing? I mean, what are we gonna, is that a real thing?”
“All right, so this is something I'm glad that this project is directly next door to 360 because there are things that you guys can work together on. If this project is built and there's a board of actual human beings who run that building next door, it would be really helpful as we try to figure out how to redesign the entrance to Harbor Island to get cars off the causeway faster, to pull them from that left turn lane and get them onto Harbor Island faster, to avoid the bottleneck at the stop signs when you come onto Harbor Island, to avoid the bottleneck at the entrance to 360, to improve…”
“Okay, Commissioner Acosta has questions and then, sorry.”
“It's actually, we learned, kind of like a $5.5 million question.”
“All right. So first of all, what is the existing condition of infrastructure within this easement? And like, you can talk civil engineering to me, like what is underground in this easement? Do we know?”
“Okay. And so there would need to be coordination with 360 to move the pipe.”
“Have you reviewed the village's stormwater master plan for Harbor Island? yes we have and i believe there's actually some improvements being planned on west drive in the in the future as part of that master plan has our um cip manager reviewed this plan why don't you come around i'd love to hear your thoughts on this roger hogg thank you um will there be a new outfall no”
“At what point? Removing a pipe entirely and putting in a new pipe entirely? Or are we cutting a pipe and connecting it somewhere?”
“Roger, can you tell us about your review of this proposal? What upgrades are called for in our master plan and whether or not we will be accomplished, those upgrades can be accomplished through this?”
“I mean, I'm hearing what Jen is saying about her lived experience watching that outfall work. And I remember when it was improved upon to become a 54 inch outfall. It is a huge pipe and it needs to be that size. Do we know, I mean, the pipe was recently installed, like I think the last five years, right? Yeah.”
“That alpha was modified recently to increase the size of the pipe is my understanding.”
“Well, yeah. I mean, in a decade when we're done.”
“But we're not moving on that anytime soon. Right. I mean, not not OK. That was a little harsh. I apologize. But the fact remains is that it is a significant conductor of drainage. And I am concerned about the sort of maneuvering of a pipe that's significant at a 90 degree angle when there is risk of things like sediment and corrosion. Remember, like I've I've dealt with. underground pipes that don't do what they're supposed to do and adjacent property owners end up being the ones to pay for that. Is this vetted?”
“But for us to maintain a pipe that is now increased significantly in terms of the linear feet of the pipe and it's difficult to get, it's maneuverability is increased. I mean, now the obligation on us to maintain it becomes a little bit more of a, of a task right and so that to me feels like an increase in we can't well no of course money but like we can't increase the impact feed just so that it applies to them going forward right i mean how do we how do we account for that additional maintenance cost to the village honestly mayor we have”
“Right. Again, the linear feed of the storm drain is significantly increasing and now it's not a direct from the drain to the outfall. There's a 90 degree angle where it's going around the building. So I appreciate that we have a backdoor truck. I appreciate that we have tools. I believe that there is going to be an increase in time, manpower, labor for us to go and maintain a drain pipe that is designed this way as opposed to the way that it was before.”
“The inlet filters protect at the actual street level. Yes. Okay.”
“Do you remember why you didn't want to do several 45 degree angle tones as opposed to, no, I'm asking the civil engineer.”