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November 28, 2018
South Windsor Board of Education
C/O The LRC Group
Henry Thomas
160 West Street, Suite E
Cromwell, CT 06416
RE: 569 Griffin Road — Eli Terry Elementary School
WPCA Approval — P&Z Application No. 18-37P
Dear Mr. Thomas:
The South Windsor Water Pollution Control Authority, at its regular meeting of November 7, 2018,
approved the application as presented for connection to the Town's sewerage system for the
proposed 66,924 sq. ft. elementary school, on property located at 569 Griffin Road, South Windsor,
CT and as more specifically shown on plans entitled "Town of South Windsor, Eli Terry Elementary
School, 569 Griffin Road, South Windsor, CT 06074", Prepared by LRC Group, Cromwell, CT.
Drawing No. C3.0 "Overall Grading & Utilities Plan", Drawing No. C3.1, C3.2, C3.3 "Grading & Utilities
Plan Enlargement", and Drawing No. C5.3 "Site Utility Details", dated 7/3/2018, Revisions: 8114/18,
8/31/18, 9/25/18 and 10/31/18. This approval is subject to the following conditions:
1. Move rip rap away from the sewer line;
2. Technical approval of the Town of South Windsor Engineering Department; and
3. Final Authority approval and acceptance of the sanitary sewerage connection is conditioned
upon the installed sewer line having been inspected by the Town staff, and upon the written
verification of the Town staff that said sanitary sewer line was installed in substantial
conformance with the design plans approved by the Authority, and meeting all regulations and
appropriate technical specifications relating to sanitary sewer construction.
This approval letter must be superimposed on the final approval plans.
Sincerely yours,
Rich d Aries, Chairman
Wat r Pollution Control Authority
RA:ead
cc: Michael J. Gantick, Director of Public Works
Jeff Doolittle, Town Engineer
Michelle Lipe, Town Planner
Chris Dougan, Chief Building Inspector
TOWN OF SOUTH WINDSOR
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL AUTHORITY
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b. Request to Increase Flow Rate
c. Change in Nature of Waste Discharge
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e. Type of Approval: Concept Final
3. Appeal of Sewer User Charge
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4. Sewer Assessment
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Date: November I, 2018
Re: Eli Terry Elementary School
LRC job# 17-2144
via Hand Delivery
Attn: Town of South Windsor
Water Pollution Control Authority
Vibert Road
South Windsor, CT
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ELI TERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Project Narrative July 3, 2018; Revised Sept 6, 2018
Revised Sept 19, 2018
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SCHOOL AND SITE:
The site for the proposed new Eli Terry Elementary School is the existing site of the current Eli Terry
Elementary School. The replacement of the school is an element of Phase 2 of the "South Windsor
Public Schools Elementary Schools Master Plan" adopted by the South Windsor Board of Education on
October 29, 2013.
The current school building of 52,296 s.f. (exterior dimensions) will be replaced by a new building of
66,886 s.f. (exterior dimensions) as originally submitted. In order to accommodate changes in enrollment
expectation, the proposed building includes 2 classroom spaces as an alternate to the project, which brings the
revised footprint and total area of the building to 69,391 square feet The new school building will provide
for contemporary standards for space provisions and teaching environments/technologies, as well as
modern lighting, mechanical and plumbing systems. Of special note, specific programs include the District's
medically fragile program and our district elementary intensive program.
The proposed site plan configuration is anchored in the requirement that the existing school building
remain in operation while the new building is constructed. The siting of the new building accommodates
this constraint and allows for the site to remain occupied during construction. When complete, the
school will have increased parking capacity (from 96 to 117 spaces) and new game fields and
playgrounds. It should be noted that available parking at the school has not always been 96 spaces, and that in
recent years spaces have been striped on existing pavements to bring the existing total up to 96.
Access into the site for automobiles, buses and service traffic will continue by way of the property's
driveway corridor from Griffin Road. Existing parking spaces along this drive will be removed and
accounted for in new parking areas in the site. Parent and medically fragile student drop-off activities
will occur along the west side of the new building and all such traffic will exit to Griffin Road as they do
today. Bus loading and unloading will occur on the north side of the new building and exit (only) to
Graham Road. Buses exiting onto Graham Rd. occurs only twice a day. This allows for separation of traffic
and boarding activities. This bus and exit only route to Graham Road will be gated off to restrict the
use of the exit to buses and delivery or service vehicles only.
A paved firelane (doubling as a pedestrian and bicycle trail) circulates through the back of the school.
During school hours,this drive will be gated off to prevent vehicular access.
In addition to improvements for vehicular circulation, the property will also be served by walks and
multi-modal trails from both Griffin and Graham Roads and connect to proposed town improvements
LRC Engineering&Surveying,D.P.C.
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LRC Engineering&Surveying,P.C. Cromwell,CT 06416
LRC Environmental Services,Inc. Tel: (860)635-2877
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to trails and an existing crossing of the Podunk River at the southwest corner of the school site. This
connectivity is consistent with the accessible route requirements throughout the school property.
PARKING.
In regards to parking, the applicant is requesting modification or relief from the parking requirement of
Table 6.4.3.13. Using the table's rate of I space per 2S0 s.f. of gross floor area for educational use, the
proposed building would require 278 parking spaces. Such a requirement far exceeds the school day
need for parking at the site, and beyond the impact to the site and additional impervious coverage, it
would be impractical to maintain and costly to construct over twice the amount of parking proposed by
the current plan. Faculty and staff currently number 88-90 people, leaving 27 parking spaces available for
use by visitors and parents during a typical school day — an increase of 2! spaces over existing
conditions. These 27 spaces represent 24% of available parking spaces. Administrative staff believes this
is sufficient parking for typical school day needs. The total oermonent parking being provided is also a
practical limit when balancing the siting of the building and program requirements such as play,
recreational fields and services to the building, .,s well as considerations for the amount of impervious surface
and the related stormwater quality management improvements that accompany parking.
Overflow parking is accounted for in 3 areas: staff parking (double stacked) on the paved game court adjacent
to the cafeteria, and in two turf zones adjacent to the paved parking area - one just off the western edge of the
parking lot, and another just off the south edge of the parking lot, both accessible by the provision of sloped curb
sections.
Similar to existing conditions, additional overflow parking can be provided on the new game field at the west side
of the site which is made accessible by means of a sloped curb profile at the northwest most corner of the new
parking area.
SITE LIGHTING:
Site lighting is provided by the use of high performance, full cut-off and low profile (small size) post mounted
fixtures with LED lamp sources. The fixtures are mounted primarily at 12' height with some fixtures in the
interior of the parking lot being set at 16'height. The nature of the fixture housing, optics and LED lamp source
provides for very crisp control of the light patterns and sharp cutoff of back lighting where lights are located on
the perimeter of parking areas and drives. Being full cutoff fixtures are "dark sky"friendly and compliant with
the zoning requirements. The LED lamps are specified at a color temperature of 3,000K (Kelvin) which is worm
and closer to incandescent light temperature.
On typical school days, pole mounted lighting will be turned on throughout the site at nightfall by means of light
sensors, and will be turned off by timeclock at 11:30 p.m. This schedule accommodates the regular anticipated
occupancy of the facility until 1 1:00 p.m. Pole mounted site lighting will be activated at 4:00 a.m. by timeclock
controller, and will remain on until turned off by photocell as sufficient daylight breaks.
Excepting lighting at the school's main entrance that may be ornamental in nature, all building mounted lighting
associated with exit and entrance doors will be full cut-off in nature, design to cost light down onto walking
surfaces, and fixtures will not have exposed lamp sources.
TRAFFIC CONTROL GATES:
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A sliding traffic control gates is installed between the traffic circle or "round about" and the bus loading and
unloading zone along the north side of the school. A second swinging pipe gate is installed on the exit drive to
Graham Road at the approximately 155' back from the property line at Graham Road. These gates will be
closed by school personnel after all busses have discharged students for morning arrival, and will remain closed
until school dismissal and bus loading activities begin. Gates will generally remain closed evenings, nights and
weekends to prevent automobile or service traffic from passing through the playground area except when
specifically opened by school staff to facilitate service and deliveries (generally occurring immediately before or
after school hours—see section below regarding service and deliveries).
STUDENT LOADING AND UNLOADING:
Buses will discharge students on the curbline at the north end of the school as they arrive at the site. Students
will be monitored and guided by school staff to ensure that students are kept out of the bus travel lanes, and
that students walking to the site use the raised and delineated crosswalks at either end of the bus staging zone.
After school student loading will occur when all buses are staged in the two parallel bus lanes. The buses staged
in the lane closest to the curbline will be loaded first, and when ready, be released as a group. Only then will
students be loaded into the second line of busses in the outside lane. Similar to the first line, when ready, the
second line of busses will be released as a group. School staff will be in the bus loading zone to facilitate safe
student boarding and dismissal.
Parents may discharge students directly to the sidewalk by means of the curbline on the west side of the school.
Students will be monitored and guided by school staff to ensure that students are kept out of the travel lanes.
Parents may also park and walk students to the front door area. Walking and bike riding students must have
written permission to do so from parents. Typically, young students who walk out to Graham are accompanied by
their parents.
SERVICE AND DELIVERY TRAFFIC:
Trash Collection will be scheduled to occur before the bus loading period. Collection of general trash is
anticipated to occur 3 times per week during the school year. Collection of recyclables trash is anticipated to
occur no more than 2 times per week during the school year. Note that dumpsters are located on a heavy duty
concrete pad and enclosed by a solid wood panel fence and gate.
Food services and supply deliveries will be made to the school's loading dock before the bus loading period, and
at specific times: no earlier than 7:30 am —8:00 am 9-10:30 am and 2-3 pm (this is designated by food services
staff hours of operation and planned around arrival/dismissal and recess waves).
Mail, UPS and Fed Ex deliveries which are typically made during the school day will arrive at the parent drop off
curbline and make deliveries to the Main Office via the school's main entrance.
LANDSCAPE TREATMENTS:
Landscape plantings shown on the plans are shown with the intent of compliance with the zoning regulations for
Landscape and Buffers (Section 6.2) and Parking Lot Landscaping(Section 6.4.6 and table 6.4.6.A).
Beyond those requirements, new tree plantings have been included for future shade benefits related to play
areas, or for enhancing the school image/entrance experience, however, excessive new planting simply for
ornament or decoration has been avoided, particularly around the immediate building perimeter. Plants have
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been selected for durability and hardiness, and are native or variations on natives to minimize or eliminate
requirements for supplemental watering(once established).
Proposed plantings are appropriate to the scale of a new public school project and are not excessive or rising to
the level of landscape improvements on might find on commercial properties.
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