Hearings Official Ken Helm <br />November 10, 2015 <br />Page 5 <br />Drive is a hiking trail that is cut off by a drainage ravine. As a result, for purposes of this <br />criterion, the applicant cannot count on West Amazon Drive as providing more than one <br />ingress/egress point for the proposed development. <br />By filing its needed housing application, the applicant is not assured of approval. If the <br />application does not meet the applicable objective criteria, the proper result is denial of the <br />application. Staff's interpretation of the cases on this point are correct. The application here <br />cannot meet this standard and the application should be denied. <br />Adjustment <br />Applicant filed for an adjustment of the paving width standards found in EC 9.6505. Adjusting <br />the paving width is acceptable under the adjustment review procedures. However, the <br />applicant appears to seek to adjust the pavement width to zero and not provide connectivity to <br />Vivian Way through the adjustment process. Getting around the connectivity requirements, <br />which are not subject to adjustment, by adjusting the paving to zero is an improper means to <br />address the connectivity requirement. <br />The adjustment request should be denied because the applicant does not address why the <br />paving width should be less than required under EC 9.6870. Although the proposed <br />development shows no access to Vivian Way, that is not a justification for reducing the paving <br />width. Reducing the paving width to zero is not an option for adjustment. <br />