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PLANNING BOARD MINUTES MEETING OF DECEMBER 3, 2008 A regular meeting of the Lexington Planning Board in the Selectmen’s Meeting Room, Town Office Building was called to order at 8:02 p.m. by Vice Chairman Zurlo with members Manz, Canale, Galaitsis, Associate Planning Board Member Ginna Johnson and planning staff McCall-Taylor, Henry, and Kaufman present. Mr. Hornig was absent. ***************************SUBDIVISION ADMINISTRATION*************************** Cotton Farm, 121 Marrett Road, sketch plan: In attendance were Brian Timm, project manager, and John Gwozdz, landscape architect from Meridian Associates, and Todd Cataldo, applicant. Mr. Zurlo explained that Ginna Johnson, Associate Planning Board Member, was sitting in on the special permit because Mr. Hornig had recused himself from this project. Mr. Timm explained that there were two proof plans; the first showed a 50-foot right of way with 12 lots on the front parcel and two lots on the back parcel, the second showed two cul-de-sacs with 18 lots. This was used to show that 14 lots could be created within the restrictions stated in the deed for the rear parcel. The two parcels located in the RS zone are approximately ten acres, six acres in the front lot and four acres in the back lot. The RO zone is across the street. There are wetlands located on the east and west ends of the site. The site analysis shows a relatively open grassed site, a few steep slopes, mostly to the west, and a 50-foot and 100-foot wetland buffer zone. Mr. Zurlo said the goal of the sketch plan was to give feedback to the applicant on the type of development that the Board felt best suited for the site. Based on the site visit the site sensitive development (SSD) or balanced housing development (BHD) would be the preference. The nature of the land needed to be preserved including the stonewall, apple orchard, trees along the border, the slopes, which are higher in the north, the view shed, and the buffer zone. Mr. Canale asked if they were razing or keeping the existing house. Mr. Cataldo said they would be keeping it for his parents’ lifetime. Mr. Canale said he did not want to see a conventional development and would prefer the SSD or BHD and wanted the orchards preserved as much as possible. He wondered where the housing would be accommodated.Mr. Zurlo said the spirit in which the restriction was written for the back parcel would determine how much of the back lot could be built out. Mr. Galaitsis said that he could not see how one could fit more than 13 with the two back units included.