From: 	Ethan Croce <ecroce@town.falmouth.me.us>
To:	'Jean Fraser' <JF@portlandmaine.gov>
Date: 	2/7/2013 10:53 PM
Subject: 	RE: Update RE: Old Barn Estates Subdivision

Jean,

My apologies for the lateness of this email.  I have been out of the office much of the past two days.  The Planning Board granted preliminary approval to the project Tuesday night with few outstanding issues raised other than the following:

Regarding Stormwater calculations – The Board will require the analysis for the 100 year storm to be shown with the next submission.  The Board also requested an opinion from the Town Engineer as to whether the applicant should add a point of analysis at the subdivision boundary at the northern corner of the subdivision adjacent to the large impounded wetland on the abutting “Icehouse” apartment property.

Regarding icing on the street - The Town Engineer met on-site with the applicant and his land use consultant to study the potential icing issue.  The Town Engineer informed me that they reach an agreement whereby the applicant agreed to add a catch basin to the non-curbed side of the roadway and slide the catch basin on the curbed side of the roadway down slightly toward Ledgewood Drive.  The Town Engineer confirmed with me that he is comfortable with this approach pending seeing the revised plans.

Regarding the request to waive the full traffic study – The Board would like to obtain an opinion from Tom Errico (who typically does our peer reviews) on the traffic concerns previously raised for the two Ledgewood Drive intersections (Allen Ave and Middle Road/Ocean Ave).  I spoke to Tom about this today and given his previous analysis of this project and his favorable reviews I do not anticipate that this will be an issue, but I will defer to Tom.

Let me know if I left anything unanswered or if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Ethan