Engineer: sidewalk on Burke Road would require heavy grading, remove trees and shift fields
T&M Associates' engineer told the commission that placing a sidewalk along Burke Road would force substantial grading, removal of mature screening, moving fields down 20 feet, relocation of utilities, and about 0.75 acres of additional disturbance — reasons the district is requesting a waiver.
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Chris Jensen, the project's engineer, told the planning commission that a sidewalk placed at the back of the Burke Road right-of-way would require extensive grading to meet ADA slopes and to align with existing driveways. "The grading would necessitate removing all of the very nice, very mature" vegetation and result in "about 0.75 of an acre" of additional disturbance, he said.
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