Core Team Minutes 12-14-12

Minutes from 12/14/12 meeting
Present: Kathy, Kinny, Abby

Question: How do we systematically review plans for correlation with principles?
-need all Core Team members present for a session of playing devil’s advocate
-Kinny took notes (see her email of 12/13/12) on principles, but we really need to step back and evaluate project as a whole
-too easy to convince ourselves that a job is being done well; can we get outside critical thinkers in?

Questions/changes for before January DRB hearing:
-Do we need an elevator in each shop/studio building? If we do, should we be clustering the contents of those buildings (combining two and having work space on either side?)
-Andres hasn’t reviewed the updated site plan for stormwater management suitability (and what about the stream continuing down to current pond, passing north of main building?)
-There’s something strange about berm/swale uphill of studio/shop buildings…seems like a swale would want to go all the way across or it wouldn’t work
-Does the initial entry view invite community in? Kathy sketched what a turn-around might look like (attached image), and landscaping could make a pedestrian entry from driveway to campus structures
-Bus stop and its infrastructure are still missing. Combine with a turn-around?
-Somehow the pole barn in the parking lot got smaller than we recalled—did we miss a change?
-Do we need to put in the Mad River Path? (Kate sketched paths a few weeks ago)
-What about landscaping? Would a narrative about screening (i.e. all existing screening will remain) suffice?

Action items:
-Kinny to ask Andres about stormwater and stream issues now that site grading is revised
-John to update CAD
-Abby to hand over Agency of Agriculture stuff to Kinny next week
-Abby will review the principles with intern perspective in mind before leaving