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Page 6 Minutes for the Meeting of August 27, 2008 On a motion duly made and seconded, it was voted, 5-0, to continue the public hearing to September 24, 2008 at 9:15 p.m. in the Selectmen’s Meeting Room. Mr. Canale advised the applicant to meet with the abutters. *****************************ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT***************************** The Beal Company: Peter Nichols, Senior Vice President of the Beal Company, Ed Grant, Attorney, and Gary Larson, Joe Gloski, Charlie Kalauskas from BSC were present. Mr. Zurlo said the past meetings on this expansion were always informal and the Board never saw a plan before hand; was there a strategy behind that? Mr. Nichols said that everything was moving so fast, but as soon as they had something more concrete they would provide the Board documents to review. Mr. Gloski said the building would be approximately 165,000 square feet, a roof elevation of 336 feet, 56 feet above the average grade; four stories would be above grade and three stories of parking below with 400 spaces in the garage, and 30 spaces outside. The existing parking ratio was 4 spaces per 1,000 square feet and the new parking ratio would be 3.4 parking spaces per 1,000 square feet for a combined 3.8-3.85/ 1,000 square feet. The building would be constructed with brick and glass to break down the mass, a recessed entrance, stepped back upper stories, roof terraces and a possible bridge connection to the Ledgemont 2 building. Mr. Larson they would be encouraging traffic entrance off Hayden Avenue and the address would 97 Hayden Avenue. Ms. McCall-Taylor asked if there would be a fire lane required. Mr. Larson said he was meeting with the Fire Chief tomorrow but it had not been an issue in earlier meetings with the Fire Chief. Mr. Kalauskas collected new data for traffic studies focusing on reducing vehicle trips through traffic demand management. They have met with the Traffic Mitigation Group (TMG) on ways to mitigate the traffic impact with the intent to get LEEDS certification. Mr. Canale said the 128 Group was looking at 2.5/1,000 square feet as a base for parking spaces and said he did not think 400 spaces would be needed. Mr. Grant discussed the schedule in preparation for a Special Town Meeting scheduled for mid- November. He wanted to file the plans within two weeks, by 9/12/08, at least three weeks prior to a public hearing on October 22, 2008. On October 1 they would like to meet with the Planning Board for