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Online Form Submittal: Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment
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Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment
SUBMIT COMMENTS REGARDING CITY PROJECTS
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Land Use Board Planning Board
Name Michael White
Email Address FriendsofRRRun@gmail.com
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Address 2 Joseph Street
City Saratoga Springs
State NY
Zip Code 12866
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Project Name McNeary Group 25 New St. Subdivision
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Comments Please find enclosed comments on emergency access to 25
New Street.
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To: City of Saratoga Springs
Planning Department and Planning Board
Comments and Concerns – Emergency Access 25 New Street
One of the most basic tenants and requirements for the safe development
of all subdivisions anywhere in the world is to have multiple ingress/egress
points that are constructed with proper turning radii and constructed to
meet the required load bearing and width specifications. All emergency
vehicles MUST be able to have an alternate ingress and egress that is built
to proper specifications in the event that one of the access points or roads
is blocked for any number of reasons.
The applicant recently chose to subdivide their extremely narrow and long
parcel and sell the northern end to Empire College. This has created an
extremely dangerous precedent and situation that jeopardizes not only the
safety of future residents, but also the safety of first responders and all city
residents as well. It is entirely unacceptable to require police, ambulances
and fire trucks to somehow traverse a 250' long gravel path that is at most
20' wide across private property as the ONLY means of ingress and egress
in the event the New Street entrance is blocked or not functioning. The
proposed single lane gravel path easement will not have any public plowing
or sanding. Will not have any standard street lighting and will not have
standard drainage that every other community is afforded.
The residents at 25 New Street will not have even the most basic safety
element of proper emergency access that every other community is
afforded and it is unconscionable that this self-created situation has not be
addressed by Public Safety - but apparently the poorest of the poor in
Saratoga Springs will be forced into this dangerous precedent since every
health and safety issue is apparently being whitewashed under the cover of
'Market Driven Housing'.
The site is already constrained by overhead high voltage transmission lines
and continuous snow stockpiles in the winter along the east edge, a 12"
high pressure gas line along the entire west edge and blocked in now to the
north. First responders are going to be faced with EXTREMELY LIMITED /
ZERO OPTIONS if access from New Street is not available. This is
EXACTLY what residents in Excelsior Park have been complaining to the
Planning Board and City Council over FOR YEARS - except worse. In the
words of the HOA president, the city needs to 'STOP REWARDING BAD
BEHAVIOR BY THE DEVELOPERS' and the city needs to listen to the
concerns of the residents who live in the developments everyday - not just
paid consultants.
Further compounding a myriad of safety problems with this proposal is that
EVERY unit has a single car garage and a single lane driveway. That
obviously means that at least 30-50 vehicles will be parked on the street
adding to an already tenuous situation in the event of an accident.
A presentation will be made to first responders and the commissioner of
Public Safety outlining the above issues in more detail shortly as the
current subdivision plan is ENTIRELY unacceptable and jeopardizes
everyone.
Michael White
2 Joseph Street
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866