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PLANNING BOARD MINUTES MEETING OF OCTOBER 22, 2008 A regular meeting of the Lexington Planning Board in the Selectmen’s Meeting Room, Town Office Building was called to order at 7:30 p.m. by Chairman Hornig with members Zurlo, Manz, Galaitsis and Canale and planning staff McCall-Taylor, Henry and Kaufman present. In order to accommodate the size of the audience, the meeting was recessed to reconvene in Cary Auditorium, Cary Memorial Hall ten minutes later. *****************************PUBLIC HEARING REZONING PETITION******************* PUBLIC HEARING Three Ledgemont Center, Rezoning Petition: Mr. Hornig opened the public hearing at 7:45 p.m. In attendance were Peter Nichols, Senior Vice President of the Beal Companies, Attorney Ed Grant, Gary Larson, Joe Gloski, and Charlie Kalauskas from BSC. There were approximately 80 people in the audience. Mr. Hornig explained the commercial development process to the audience. Mr. Grant presented a letter responding to the Planning Board’s questions at the October 1, 2008 meeting. Mr. Nichols discussed the history of the site and said they had met informally with the Board of Selectmen two times and the Planning Board 3-4 times. The applicant was requesting an expansion under section eight of the Zoning Bylaw. The Cecil report cited that the Hayden site had high development potential and that 0.15 FAR was low for the suburbs. The main access would be off Hayden Avenue. The site is 36.2 acres with 7.3 acres of wetlands and 10.8 acres covered by a conservation restriction. The net floor area would be 275,973 square feet; the FAR would be 0.22 with 170 parking spaces on grade and 951 parking spaces in the garage. The site coverage would be 14.3%. Mr. Nichols gave the following overview. Three Ledgemont would have 162,000 square feet and a net floor area of 129,6000. An additional 0.66 acres will be added to the conservation restriction. The FAR would be 0.33 without the wetlands and 0.26 including the wetlands. There would be 387 garage parking spaces and 28 parking spaces on grade, creating a ratio of 3.2 spaces per 1,000 square feet. The total site coverage would be 17.4%. There is a 90-foot change in elevation from Spring Street to the eastern border of the lot. The building is sited on the perimeter drive to minimize clearing. Lighting would be screened from abutters and parking tucked into the hillside. A video showed the massing of the building. It is located 260 to 450 feet from abutters’ houses. The fiscal impact would add $22,000,000 to the tax base