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2) the necessary north-south building orientation to allow for direct fire apparatus'*xit onto Willow Drive without requiring additional turning movemenis; driveway aprons required on east and west sides of the building bays to allow for fire apparatus ingress/egress, necessitating that administrative and training spaces be located on the north or south ends of the building; road / driveway access to the rear of the building must allow for the necessary wide turning radius of fire apparatus; proximityto the existing/future Willow Drive bridgeover the RR and the new Highway 12 route; site limitations imposed by width of the site, as well as by the location of existing linear wetlands on the site, and the need to create a road corridor to provide access to the rear of the property for future residential use; soil conditions which require extensive soil correction work and which limit use of the southerly portion of the site for building purposes. The setback variance for the fire station is directly attributable to the occurrence of linear wetlands along the south property boundary. These wetlands must be preserved to the greatest extent possible, and a 16' buffer is additionally required. Due to minimum City requirements for road and shoulder widths, the road/driveway corridor had to be widened to 60' as it enters the site from Willow, and even wdder to minimize wetland impacts toward the rear of Lot I. Nevertheless, a road corridor is necessary to access the rear of the site. A road corridor along the north lot line would be undesirable from a safety starapoint due to proximity to the Willow Drive Bridge over new 1 2 coupled w’ith the dual fire apparatus return access and residential use this corridor must serve. The most feasible location for the road corridor is south of the station, and the characteristics of the land dictate the location of the corridor. Page 3 of?