geographic issues

The project site I am dealing with has a varied topography (outside Pittsburgh, PA), and I believe the geographic limitations of the site and surroundings made it difficult to meet the required threshold. Even though the project is located in a centralized location in a dense, well-established community, we barely met the threshold of 60 intersections. The street grids of the area follow the topography and there are limited connections among the different grids, only where the topography allows. I don't know if there is an effective way to account for sites on or near difficult topography, but it certainly could be an obstacle for some locations. Like others, there is a large municipal park adjacent to my project site, and that affected our intersection count as well.