I B. Impediment to Emergency Response <br />2 As noted, EC 9.8320(6) requires a finding that the PUD will not be "an <br />3 impediment to emergency response." Access to the PUD is via Capital Drive, a <br />4 narrow winding street, 18-feet wide, that dead-ends just past the subject <br />5 property at Hendrickson Park. The Fire Marshal's original comments expressed <br />6 several concerns, including: (1) the roads leading up to the PUD are narrow and <br />7 windy, with potential for delayed response times if there are collisions, road <br />8 construction, downed trees, heavy traffic, etc.; and (2) the need for an <br />9 emergency vehicle turnaround triggered by the dead-end status of Capital <br />10 Drive. To improve response times, the Fire Marshal recommended that no <br />11 parking signs be posted on the streets leading to the area. Subsequently, the <br />12 city Traffic Engineer issued an order placing no parking signs along the <br />13 approach route. In addition, the applicants proposed a loop road through the <br />14 PUD that allows an emergency vehicle turnaround. On February 20, 2018, the <br />15 Fire Marshal issued an updated comment noting these two improvements, and <br />16 commenting in relevant part that the no-parking signs provide "improved <br />17 emergency access and evacuation capabilities along this route." Record 2932. <br />18 Based on the Fire Marshal's updated comments, the hearings official found that <br />19 the PUD would not be an impediment to emergency response. 12 <br />12 The hearings official found: <br />"[T]he Fire Marshal's office comments indicate that the parking <br />prohibition [on streets] leading to the proposed PUD could <br />Page 41 <br />