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Page 2 Minutes for the Meeting of February 13, 2008 submission requirements too onerous early in the process. Mr. Ken Kreutziger, Precinct 2, asked would there be the same guidelines such as 100-foot diameter? Mr. Hornig said they have to show the proof plan as defined in the zoning bylaws and development regulations without waivers. Mr. Frank Sandy, Precinct 6, asked how would one round the numbers for the requirement that 25% of the units be a certain size. Mr. Hornig said there are no fractions and you would round up. Mr. Sandy said the assessor’s database defines the GFA differently. He felt that the smaller units should be less than 2,700 square feet, making them more affordable. Mr. Steve Heinrich, Precinct 3, asked to see how this would affect the recent clusters. It would be helpful at Town Meeting to see how the changes would impact them. Ms. McCall-Taylor said the chart would be posted on the website. Mr. Ken Kreutziger, Precinct 2, said at the information session he had asked for diagrams and proof that the public benefit developments would work and wanted to know if that information was available. Mr. Hornig said the staff worked through the numbers and the proposal worked. Ms. McCall-Taylor's figures would be available for Town Meeting. Mr. Andy Friedlich, Precinct 5, asked how much data on GFA, living area and occupants for each cluster was available. Mr. Hornig said living area is in the eye of the beholder - we know what was permitted not what is built and how it is used. There is no way to find out the number of non-adults in the developments. Mr. Friedlich said we could in 1996. He felt that the purpose of the cluster was to give empty-nesters affordable places to live and it would be financially beneficial to the Town to have families without children. Ms. McCall-Taylor read from the script from the 1996 presentation Town Meeting on residential developments that dealt with the anticipated fiscal impacts of clusters. It stated “ The 68% of the housing units in town that do not have children generally do not impact the Town’s budget and many of them provide a positive revenue/cost ratio. From a fiscal prospective, it makes sense to increase that type of housing. Similarly it makes fiscal sense to offer more choices to developers so that they do not build only large single-family houses that have school-aged children and the greatest impact on the Town budget.” She pointed out that now Mr. Friedlich was now arguing the opposite, that large single-family houses