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rd Sidewalk Committee Meeting, November 3 2008, 11:00am Present: Members: Suzie Barry, Judy Crocker, Olga Guttag, Lucy Fletcher-Jones, Margaret Lotz, Francine Stieglitz and Jerry Van Hook, Chairman Liaisons: Jeanne Krieger (BOS), and Wayne Brooks (DPW) Guests from the Wisteria Lane Neighborhood: Benson Marsalles, 9 Saddle Club Rd Rebecca Weiler, 19 Reed St. Stephanie Lawrence, 186 Grant St Jennifer McKinley, 4 Upland Rd Bill Driscoll, 57 Colony Rd Laurel Driscoll, 57 Colony Rd Charlene Fryou, 1 Sherman St. Christian Loup, 1 Sherman Debbie Hogan, 63 Colony Rd. Gloria Amirault, 6 Bowser Rd Brinda Gupta, 24 Saddle Club Rd Ann Kelly, 6 Brookwood Rd. Guests from the Roosevelt Rd Neighborhood Jane Kalinski, 73 School St. Sharon Kendall, 9 Deering Ave. Proposed Wisteria Lane Pathway to Fiske School Debbie Hogan introduced a petition signed by citizens from the Colony Rd-side of the Fiske school neighborhood. The petition asked for the town to pave and keep clear a pathway from Wisteria Lane to Fisk School that follows an easement that was deeded to the town by the builder and homeowner, Mr. Esserian. Debbie summarized that she hope that the town would: 1) support the neighborhood’s request to the town to pave and keep clear the path 2) support the neighborhood’s request to get permission from the town to clear brush and create a dirt path themselves along an agreed alignment, assuming it might eventually be paved by the town. Jerry said he had visited the site, noting the sidewalk along Colony Rd and the school crosswalks. He felt that if the town becomes involved, it would be required to make the pathway ADA compliant. This introduces two problems. 1) The present (illegal) path dips steeply about 4 feet to forest level at both ends. Any other path nearby would have the same elevation changes. The ADA requirement of a slope less than 1 in 12 would necessitate a wedge of soil build up 4x12=48 feet long from each end before paving, requiring considerable infilling for a 5 foot wide snow plow-able trail. 2) The existing granite curbing at the Fiske and the Wisteria ends of the path would have to be modified by a 54 inch wide cut if the town sidewalk snow plow were eventually to clear snow from the path. (If the town agrees to someday plow the Wisteria Circle sidewalk with the easement path as a plowed extension thereof, then a curb cut at the Wisteria end may not be needed).