Re: drivable emergency access. was RE: "Cohousing Overlay" asZoning Regulation | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Richart Keller (richart.keller![]() |
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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:10:35 -0700 (PDT) |
The grass pavers are an excellent idea--wasn't thinking of that. My concern was that the way would be blanketed with asphalt but you are right about providing room for offloading etc. The pavers would also serve to prevent planting trees too close to the emergency access. The 20' width would also be a way of keeping at least part of the way open for walking, bicycling, etc when being used during the day for deliveries, workers, etc.--we have discussed constructing occasional parallel pulloffs for same although these parking spaces will feel like they are encroaching on lawns and other open space and won't be as convenient for their temporary uses. Using the grass pavers for the pulloffs would help though. Thanks for pointing that out. Richart Keller, AICP Pioneer Valley Cohousing 120 Pulpit Hill Road #25 Amherst, MA 01002 413-835-0011 401 486-2677 (cell) -----Original Message----- From: Kay Argyle [mailto:Kay.Argyle [at] utah.edu] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 5:52 PM To: 'Cohousing-L' Subject: [C-L]_ drivable emergency access. was RE: "Cohousing Overlay" asZoning Regulation "Seems to me that 20' is much too wide though the curves should accommodate reasonably anticipated emergency vehicles." Our drivable emergency access was required to be 20 feet wide. Salt Lake's fire trucks are mostly modestly sized, but it would still be a tight fit (luckily we've never had to find out). Keep in mind you need room not merely for a truck to squeeze through, but for the firefighters to offload equipment from its sides. Also keep in mind that your residents, like ours, will probably insist, despite your landscape committee's best efforts to discourage it, on planting trees right at the edge of the emergency access, so the passable area will end up much narrower. We limb up the shade trees (which creates a different problem, liontailing), but the fruit trees and ornamentals will never get big enough to let a truck pass under them. It has a sidewalk more-or-less in the middle, originally four feet but widened with brick paving to six when we found the sidewalk wasn't really adequate for two people to walk side-by-side talking. The remaining width has either brick pavers or grass pavers on top of roadbase. The grass pavers are where the buildings are closest across the path, to avoid nearly wall-to-wall pavement; planted, they look like normal lawn or groundcover. Kay Wasatch Commons SLC UT __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5943 (20110310) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com _________________________________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/
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"Cohousing Overlay" as Zoning Regulation VAN DEIST, March 9 2011
- Re: "Cohousing Overlay" as Zoning Regulation Michael Barrett, March 10 2011
- Re: "Cohousing Overlay" as Zoning Regulation Richart Keller, March 10 2011
- drivable emergency access. was RE: "Cohousing Overlay" as Zoning Regulation Kay Argyle, March 10 2011
- Re: drivable emergency access. was RE: "Cohousing Overlay" asZoning Regulation Richart Keller, March 15 2011
- Re: drivable emergency access. was RE: "Cohousing Overlay" asZoning Regulation Sharon Villines, March 15 2011
- Re: drivable emergency access. was RE: "Cohousing Overlay" asZoning Regulation Lyle Scheer, March 15 2011
- Re: drivable emergency access. was RE: "Cohousing Overlay" asZoning Regulation Kay Argyle, March 15 2011
- Re: drivable emergency access. was RE: "CohousingOverlay" asZoning Regulation Richart Keller, March 15 2011
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"Cohousing Overlay" as Zoning Regulation VAN DEIST, March 9 2011
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