05-17-2017, 08:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-17-2017, 08:53 PM by Pheidippides.)
Yes, the exisiting parkade isn't going anywhere any time soon.
In scrolling through the documents I noticed the "safe access route" which I interpret as emergency exit plan.
It seems very convoluted.
Residents would travel to the top of the parking podium (P5), enter at floor 6 at the north end of the public health building via the bridge, walk the length of the building, descend to floor two, find their way around the rotunda to another newly constructed bridge/stairwell, descended to the ground level exiting at the south end of the public health building:
http://www.waterloo.ca/en/contentresourc...df#page=26
Edit: Upon further reading this route is only for flooding related to a "regional storm is a storm with the equivalent magnitude of Hurricane Hazel (1954)." Residents require a passage out of their building, through floodwaters that are no deeper than 0.8 metres below the Regional Flood Elevation which is 324.30m at the site. The route gets them to essentially the Marbles patio which is at 323.50m or exactly the 0.8m needed.
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[url=http://www.waterloo.ca/en/contentresources/resources/business/Z_17_07_safe_access.pdf]Full safe access report
In scrolling through the documents I noticed the "safe access route" which I interpret as emergency exit plan.
It seems very convoluted.
Residents would travel to the top of the parking podium (P5), enter at floor 6 at the north end of the public health building via the bridge, walk the length of the building, descend to floor two, find their way around the rotunda to another newly constructed bridge/stairwell, descended to the ground level exiting at the south end of the public health building:
http://www.waterloo.ca/en/contentresourc...df#page=26
Edit: Upon further reading this route is only for flooding related to a "regional storm is a storm with the equivalent magnitude of Hurricane Hazel (1954)." Residents require a passage out of their building, through floodwaters that are no deeper than 0.8 metres below the Regional Flood Elevation which is 324.30m at the site. The route gets them to essentially the Marbles patio which is at 323.50m or exactly the 0.8m needed.
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[url=http://www.waterloo.ca/en/contentresources/resources/business/Z_17_07_safe_access.pdf]Full safe access report
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.