From: 	Ethan Croce <ecroce@town.falmouth.me.us>
To:	'Jean Fraser' <JF@portlandmaine.gov>
Date: 	2/4/2013 4:30 PM
Subject: 	RE: Update RE: Old Barn Estates Subdivision

Jean,

Thank you for the update.  Here is a summary of some of the issues the Falmouth Board will be addressing tomorrow evening:

1.    Consideration of a waiver for a traffic study.

2.    Street lighting.

3.    Location, design standards, and tree clearing necessary for the connecting pedestrian trail on land within Falmouth.

4.    Addition of pedestrian crosswalk signs across Ledgewood Drive.

5.    Possible tree save opportunities for Open Space Lot 15 and possible supplemental buffering for same.

6.    Clarification for how the “no disturb stormwater buffers” will be identified on the ground to prevent clearing abuses by future lot owners.

7.    Revised stormwater management plan needs to show the pre- and post-development peak runoff rates for the 100 year storm.

8.    Consider moving CB #1 down station towards Ledgewood Drive and eliminate the two proposed 45° pipe angles.  The Town Engineer would like to catch as much water as possible before it runs down the street to Ledgewood Drive to avoid icing issues.

9.    On the non-curbed side of the roadway, consider providing for a drainage structure to catch water running down Ice Pond Drive. The concern is during the winter the snow will act like a curb and allow water to run down the roadway and into Ledgewood Drive creating icing conditions.

10.  Allow for a drainage easement to the Town of Falmouth for the maintenance of the swale that follows the Eastern edge of Lot 16 from Ledgewood Drive to Lot 14.

11.  One of the points of analysis (AP #1) used to compare pre- and post-development flows is located off-site at the existing 60” culvert under Ledgewood Drive.  While there is some rationale for using this location as a point of analysis, especially since the flows are directed to an off-site wetland that is owned in part by the applicant and in part by the open space to the abutting Elm Landing Subdivision, the Subdivision Ordinance technically requires that an analysis be performed at the subdivision boundary.  The Board will need to determine if it is comfortable with the analysis presented or if it would like the applicant to run the stormwater calculations for flows at the subdivision’s property boundary.

12.  Modify Lot 13 building envelope.  Since Lot 13 will continue to obtain its frontage and access from Ledgewood Drive, the building envelope on the Subdivision Plan will need to show a 40 foot setback from the rear lot line, which is the southerly lot line (the municipal boundary).  Only a 20 foot setback is required from the easterly lot line abutting the Ice Pond Drive right of way.

Feel free to give me a call with any questions.  For what it’s worth, under your item #4 below, Falmouth would support the direction you outline.  That is, Falmouth would require a “paper street” connection off the end of the street ROW extending to the property line in the event, however unlikely, that a connection to the abutting property would ever be needed/desired in the future.

Regards,
Ethan
Ethan J. Croce
Senior Planner
Town of Falmouth
271 Falmouth Road
Falmouth, ME 04105
(207) 781-5253  x-5328
(207) 781-8677 (fax)
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