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Hedding: Nuszer: I'm very familiar with these kinds of developments. I believe you have a serious problem with your layout. It affects the City. As I look at your plan, I'm wondering how you intend to remove the snow? If you're going to plow it and push it, where are you going to push it to? You've placed parking areas at the end of many alcoves and blind alleys or driveways. If you were to push the snow into that area and there is a car there, you can't push it in there. You've made it almost impossible to scoop the snow out with a truck with a plow in the front at almost every location. If they are able to push the snow, where do they push it to? How it affects the City is the likelihood of an emergency in the wintertime with snow piled up and inaccessibility due to the snow piles in the way. It creates a serious hazard. I don't see how a fire truck, for example a pumper, tries to negotiate all of these curves, gets back in here, and an ambulance comes along, how the ambulance will get past the fire truck. We have a number of areas, specifically in the southeast corner, which is almost 3/4 acre, that snow can be pushed into. We have an area in the southwest corner, which snow can be pushed into. There are a number of points where snow can be piled up. The Fire Marshall has reviewed this plan 4 - 5 times and he has no problems with this at all. The 28 ft. flowline to flowline dimension allows for parking on one side of the street, which allows for a 20 ft. clear zone, two lanes of traffic in either direction, which is exactly the same as your standard 36 ft. street with parallel parking on either side. We feel that we have addressed the snow issue and that 2O