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Page 4 <br />Minutes for the Meeting of March 5, 2008 <br />need to see the location and relationship of the building sites to the residential property; and have a sense <br />of how this property would be developed. Mr. Hornig said that the purpose of zoning a property is setting <br />down rules, which would allow the owner to build if it conformed. Zoning is suppose to produce good <br />results and not about a specific project. <br /> <br />Mr. Zurlo stated that the Board should only focus on the zoning and relationship to the area and not on the <br />improvements the applicant offered. Mr. Hornig said that some improvements would be required with <br />expansion even without a written commitment. <br /> <br />Mr. Canale said the intersection was not the proponent’s responsibility and the expanding of the retail <br />area was not a problem, but with the conditions as they exist he would not support this rezoning. <br /> <br />Mr. Galaitsis said he was uncomfortable supporting this rezoning with the information that is before the <br />Board at this point. <br /> <br />On a motion duly made and seconded, it was voted, 3-2, (Mr. Galaitsis and Mr. Canale opposed) to <br />support the Article 52 at Town Meeting. <br /> <br />Article 53, CM District Floor Area Ratio: Mr. Hornig said they made progress on a proposal to mitigate <br />the increase in the FAR by special permit mechanisms with certain findings and were still working on that <br />concept. <br /> <br />Mr. Canale said he was opposed to all the commercial articles except for the one that dealt with setbacks. <br />He would be speaking against all the other articles since they were not in the Town’s best interest. These <br />articles give a density bonus without equitable return to the Town. <br /> <br />Mr. Hornig said they would try to continue working on this article and the Board should defer the <br />discussion until then. <br /> <br />Mr. Zurlo said impacts from an increase to .35 seemed reasonable for development, but there would need <br />to be more discussion of the impacts. Special permits would go before the Planning Board to mitigate <br />impacts. Mr. Hornig said an idea brought to Larry Smith was to allow an increase in the FAR to .35 <br /> <br />