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Minutes for the Meeting of August 13, 2008 Page 5 were present. Mr. Russell said the revised plans were made in response to the Board’s comments from the last meeting with changes to the turn around design, water looping, the amount of mitigation needed and removing the walking path, which abutters did not favor. He was now looking for guidance. Mr. Russell said that since the Preliminary Subdivision Plans were approved zoning had changed and the applicant was now going in the direction of the site sensitive development (SSD). Ms. McCall-Taylor said she did not recall the neighbors being opposed to a pedestrian path, only to a through road. Mr. Russell said if they went with a site sensitive development there would be a lot less disturbance, grading and loss of vegetation. Board Comments: Mr. Hornig: ?? The site sensitive development was a better option; ?? Improvements would have to be done to Summit Road, including widening it to 18 or 20 feet and creating a turnaround of some sort at the end; and ?? Put in a pedestrian/bike path. Mr. Canale: ?? On the surface it seemed obviously better; ?? See no reason for wider streets than necessary. Ms. McCall-Taylor said she took the proposal to DRT and the Fire Chief said a driveway was fine, but the private way part of Summit Road is 16 feet and needed to be 18 feet. Ms. Manz: ?? This plan would be preferable and go with the recommendations of the Fire Chief wants; and ?? Add a pedestrian path. Mr. Henry said he was not sure what the Town was doing regarding the water and needed to know how they would be coordinating this issue. Mr. Hornig said Summit Road was currently a private road and asked if this would this be the last chance to make any improvements to the road. Ms. McCall-Taylor said that depended on if it were a subdivision or SSD. She was not sure but this could be the last opportunity to require improvements to Summit Road. Mr. Galaitsis summarized his position as follows: ?? Agreed the SSD would be the way to go for minimum disturbance of this difficult site; ?? Surprised the Fire Chief did not require a broader pavement for an easier backing-out of emergency vehicles; ?? Pointed out that the long building is shown near the peak of the site, and that the curvature of the site needed to be accounted for carefully to avoid the look of a very tall-looking house;