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Page 4 Minutes for the Meeting of July 16, 2008 ?? Look at the rating system chart for new construction, major renovations, existing buildings, core & shell, and neighborhood development. Mr. Zurlo asked if staff could send the rating system documents to the Board and accompany it with a review sheet for which one could indicate a preference to what topics may be applicable to Lexington. The collective responses would be reviewed to focus future discussions. ******************************* DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS************************ Proposed Amendments to Sketches, Proofs and Site Plan Analysis to the Development Regulations: The Board discussed Mr. Henry’s memorandum regarding the following proposed amendments to the development regulations. 1. Referential changes: To ensure that all citations to the zoning bylaw, be they terms, sections, etc are corrected. 2. Required revisions: The best examples of significant changes pertain to the Site Analysis Map requirements, the Sketch Plan and Proof Plan. These sections will probably be where the most amounts of time and effort will need to be spent. 3. Recommended changes: The proposed amendments that staff have noticed over time, like outdated references to the “MS DOS” operating system, updating submission requirements to mirror the Board’s practice and perhaps as extensive as updating the road standards. Mr. Canale said he did not see in the memo the one conversation at Town Meeting from Mr. Fenn requesting an amendment be made regarding public notice to abutters in earlier stages. Mr. Henry said it could be put into the development regulations to notice abutters at the sketch plan stage. Mr. Hornig said that it could be a post card being sent or the soliciting of public input from abutters at that early stage. Mr. Canale said we would want to hear about neighborhood concerns. Mr. Hornig said then the key changes to the sketch plan were public input early on and removal of the construction plan at that stage. Mr. Henry said these changes would help developers by giving them direction, being more direct and asking for more on site plan analysis, specifically on trees and slope. This could also help the developers not spend monies where they would not need to. Mr. Henry said that staff noticed there are some things in both the development regulations and the bylaws, which could cause confusion. It might appear that certain items could be waived if reading the development regulations, but then they appear in the bylaws making them not waivable. The goal would be to make the regulations and bylaws consistent with one another.