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Minutes for the Meeting of June 18, 2008 Page 3 made the situation worse; ?? In 1973 during the oil crunch people carpooled; encourage carpooling; ?? Spread the work schedule out, stagger work hours, get businesses to cooperate on work schedules ?? West Lexington Greenway will bisect the study area and businesses do not understand how this will impact them; ?? Hartwell Avenue would look better with three story buildings, which would expand the tax base and help fund education; ?? Staggering the work schedule would make it worse, there would always be traffic and be harder to work around peak traffic times; ?? A straw poll showed four audience members in favor of staggered hours and approximately 16 for keeping the peak hours shorter; ?? More public transportation such as a shuttle bus from Alewife and Woburn; ?? Rezoning to allow residential 4-5 story apartment buildings to spread out traffic; ?? Would like to see quantitative information that would reduce traffic, adjusted uses to increase value and reduce traffic; ?? There are a number of suggestions in the current TDM policies, try to incorporate them into the existing bylaws; ?? There is an erroneous assumption that traffic is currently acceptable on Wood Street. Zoning changes should be held up until the current situation is improved; ?? Cars are traveling at 50 MPH, cars passing over yellow lines, level of service is F. The goal is to create additional capacity and address current problems, traffic mitigation measures prior to the fall; ?? This is a static way to measure more square feet yields more traffic, instead consider higher density may open up other traffic mitigation measures. Mr. Hornig thanked the audience for attending and said it was an enjoyable and educational experience. The Planning Board took a five-minute recess. ***********************PLANNING BOARD ORGANIZATION, SCHEDULE***************** The June 24 meeting will be in the Selectmen’s Meeting Room at 8:00 a.m. Mr. Hornig will do essentially the same presentation and agenda as here tonight.