Capital Dr will be closed Thursday, 3/22/18 (SIGN: CAPITAL CLOSED THURSDAY) <br />EC 9.8320 Criteria 6 says The PUD will not be a significant risk to public health and safety, including <br />but not limited to soil erosion, slope failure, storm water or flood hazard, or an impediment to <br />emergency response. Given the explanation above and the letter from the Fire Department from <br />2/20/18 (especially the Concern Realities 1 and 2) it is more than clear that this CHPUD proposal is a <br />significant risk to public health and safety and clearly presents an impediment to emergency <br />response, not meeting Criteria 6 and should be denied. <br />There is a fundamental issue with pedestrian safety that is not addressed by the applicant. There is <br />absolutely no accommodation for pedestrians on Capital at the access of lots 18 and 19. Here you <br />have an 18ft wide road with curbs on both sides at a sharp 90 degree curve with no sidewalk. This is <br />part of the proposed CHPUD and has not addressed pedestrian safety or access in any way, but <br />rather has made it more unsafe through the introduction of the access for lots 18+19 and the addition <br />of additional traffic from the proposed development. In fact there is no accommodation for pedestrians <br />anywhere from the main entrance of the proposed PUD on Capital all the way to Alta Vista. This is <br />well within ¼ mile of the proposed CHPUD and leaves that entire section of Capital Dr 18ft wide with <br />curbs and no sidewalk for pedestrians or wheelchairs. This is clearly a danger to public health and <br />safety and does not meet EC 9.8320(5)(b), not meeting Criteria 5 or 6 and should be denied. Lots 18- <br />19 should be eliminated. <br />EC 9.8320 Criteria 6 says The PUD will not be a significant risk to public health and safety, including <br />but not limited to soil erosion, slope failure, storm water or flood hazard, or an impediment to <br />emergency response. <br />Based on a review of the initial Fire Department Land Use comments for the Capital Hill PUD – <br />“ <br />PDT17-1 by Schirmer Satre Landscape Architects, the “dead end fire department access road” no <br />longer exists. This portion of the development, after review, removed an access road that supported <br />lots on a private drive originally serving lots #1 and #4. Capital Hill Road will now dead end but this <br />dead end road will not exceed 150 ft, thus removing the requirement for an acceptable fire <br />department apparatus turn around.” (from the Fire Departments letter) So here the applicant was <br />going to need to make a turn around for emergency vehicles at the North end of Capital Dr. To avoid <br />this more costly solution the applicant choose to simply end Capital Dr after 150 ft serving lots 1-4. <br />These properties beyond the 150ft would be in a much more dangerous situation if this happened. <br />The city requires a dead end barrier at the end of the 150ft. This leaves lot 1 with no way to have it's <br />driveway get to the street making more difficult to service in emergencies. There are also two existing <br />homes beyond this point on the other side of the Capital from proposed lots 1-4 that would have their <br />houses and driveways cut off from the street with this cobbled together compromise. There is no <br />mitigation for these neighbors parking, how they would access their houses, how an emergency <br />vehicles would get in, how a disabled person would access... This is an unacceptable situation that <br />3 <br /> <br />