7-28-15 Trautman Public Comment (01)

17 1 (1) Except for streets that are less than 150 feet long and streets that will be 2 extended in the future, all streets that terminate shall be designed as a 3 cul-de-sac bulb or an emergency vehicle turnaround. 4 (3) There shall be no cul-de-sacs more than 400 feet long from the center- 5 line of the intersecting street to the radius point of the cul-de-sac bulb. 6 (4) Public accessways to provide safe circulation for pedestrians, bicyclists 7 and emergency vehicles shall be required from a cul-de-sac or 8 emergency vehicle turnaround longer than 150' in length when measured 9 from the centerline of the intersecting street to the radius point of the cul- 10 de-sac or to the center point of the emergency vehicle turnaround. 11 "[T]hese standards do apply since the existing right-of-way is being required to 12 be extended." Rec 1261. Oakleigh Lane exceeds by 2~/2 times the maximum 13 length allowed by EC 9.6820(3). Oakleigh Lane has no sidewalks or other 14 "[p]ublic accessways to provide safe circulation for pedestrians [and] bicyclists." 15 The Decision erroneously found Oakleigh Lane met the requirements for 16 an exception to EC 9.6820(3) and (4), standards that are intended to establish 17 the safe and adequate transportation system required by EC 9.8320(5)(a). The 18 EPC relied upon the following staff finding without additional analysis: 19 "The PC finds that there is existing development to the south and natural 20 resources to the east that warrant an exception to the cul-de-sac length, 21 pursuant to EC9.6820(5)." Rec 9. 22 The Hearings Official's finding was more specific (at Rec 40): 23 "The street connectivity exception also warrants an exception to the 400- 24 foot maximum length of a dead-end street, pursuant to EC 9.6820(5)(b)." 25 The exceptions at EC 9.6820(5) require either: 26 (a) "Physical conditions preclude development of the connecting street"; or