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L1MBIRD Andrew
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L1MBIRD Andrew
Friday, June 19, 2009 10:30 AM
VaN ROTZ Paul
CASTILE Robert
RE: 1815 main street illegal wall
Paul: There have been no Planning approvals issued for any development activity at this site. The applicant's proposed
site plan is still under review by the City and a decision is pending, but not yet ready for issuance. It appears the City
may have to exercise its rights under provisions of the existing PUE that runs though the property - similar to removing a
fence or other obstruction to facilitate maintenance work in a public easement area.
Andy
From: VaN ROTZ Paul
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 9: 18 AM
To: UMBIRD Andrew
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Hi Andy,
It looks like we will need a legal letter for the contractor at 1815 Main St to get him to remove his illegal concrete wall.
Right now he is refusing to do anything. We will probably have to remove it ourselves and try to backcharge him. I need
all the legal ammunition to send to Joe Leahy because this guy would probably try to sue the City.
Do you have any records or history of action by the city that would be useful to Joe to get this guy to comply with us? I
appreciate any help you can give.
Thanks,
Paul
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L1MBIRD Andrew
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MCEACHERN Clayton
Thursday, June 18, 20094:58 PM
L1MBIRD Andrew
FW: Memo On Driveway Configuration for Chan Building
Memo On Driveway Configuration for Chan Building.docx
From: PERRY Richard
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 4:29 PM
To: 'david.knitowski@odot.state.or.us'; 'DETERING Lynn'
Cc: MCEACHERN Clayton
Subject: fIN: Memo On Driveway Configuration for Chan Building
David and Lynn,
I wanted to bring to your attention the fact that Clayton's memo states the CURRENT DESIGN necessitates use of the
proposed driveway. He goes on to further state, "a complete redesign of the proposed development would be
necessary to allow the continued use of the shared driveway."
The developer of the property can accomplish stormwater treatment and use of the shared driveway with redesign of
the site. Although I feel compassion for the owner of the property and do not deliberately want to cause additional
expense, a poor design that does not take into account the limitations on the site does not constitute an emergency or
obligation on our, or ODOT's, part.
While I understand this is your departments decision, I would support maintaining the shared use access with regard to
this development.
Thanks,
Richard Perry, EIT
Traffic Operations Engineer:in-Trairllng
Phone: (541) 736-7134
Fax: (541) 726- 3781
From: MCEACHERN Clayton
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 2:32 PM
To: PERRY Richard
Subject: fIN: Memo On Driveway Configuration for Chan Building
From: MCEACHERN Clayton
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 2:09 PM
To: 'david.knitowski@odot.state.or.us'
Subject: Memo On Driveway Configuration for Chan Building
David, here is the memo with some revised wording. If you have a different take, or a better solution we would be glad
to hear it.
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Memorandum
City of Springfield
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June 12, 2009
David Knitowski
Clayton McEachern, Civil Engineer
Driveway configuration for 1815 Main St
This memo is in response to a request by the developer of 1815 Main St for a written
explanation of the driveway/drainage layout for the redevelopment of this property.
The proposed driveway configuration for the redevelopment at 1815 Main St is optimized
to ensure compliance with the City of Springfield drainage requirements. The site has
numerous constraints on its redevelopment due to proximity of existing, established
businesses on every side. The City wants to encourage infill/redevelopment of existing
businesses and as such worked with the developer to obtain a site design for their
property that would meet city requirements while minimizing impacts to surrounding
businesses. A complete redesign of the proposed development would be necessary to
allow the continued use of the shared driveway at the northwest comer ofthe property.
The proposed driveway location with a vegetated swale on either side allows the property
to meet both the 100% pretreatment requirement, and the 50% or more vegetated
treatment requirement for all non building rooftop impervious surfaces. The swales are
located at the lower end of each parking area to allow for the maximum area of pavement
to be treated by each swale. The treatment swale will also slow runoff and infiltrate to
some extent, reducing runoff from the existing condition to the storm drain system in
Main St. The continued use of the shared driveway with ] 775 Main St would eliminate
one of these treatment areas and force the site into non-compliance with at least one and
possibly both of the treatment requirements.
The area required for treatment is presented in the City of Portland Stormwater
Management Manual section 2.2.1. The manual requires a minimum square footage
necessary for a vegetated (or bio) swale is 0.09 sf for every sf of impervious surface area.
Each swale treats approximately 7800 sf of pavement. This requires 700 sf of treatment
area. For the present design for the site, 800 sf of treatment area is provided on each side.
Additionally a residence time for the runoff of 10 minutes or greater is required for the
design storm used for calculating storm water quality. The additional 1 00 sf provided in
each vegetated swale area helps meet this requirement.
The proposed driveway configuration does not result in an increase in access points to
Main St and preserves the status quo in respect to viability of the existing business for
this area of Main St.
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