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BOA Meeting September 11, 2014 17 Minutes of the Lexington Zoning Board of Appeals Selectmen’s Meeting Room September 11, 2014 Board Members Present: Chairman – Martha C. Wood, Jeanne K. Krieger, Edward D. McCarthy, Leo P. McSweeney and David G. Williams Associate Member sitting as an Alternate: Ralph D. Clifford Administrative Staff: Dianne Cornaro, Clerk and David George, Zoning Administrator Address: 430 Concord Avenue The petitioner submitted the following information with the applications: nature and justification of request; topographic plan; plot plan; elevations; floor plans; DSDUP; regulatory material; executed memorandum of understanding; memorandum of understanding compliance tracking; non-regulatory material; ECG letter in support of PSDUP addressing Planning Board regulations; hydrologic and drainage analysis; soil surveys, test borings; traffic study; analysis impact on environmental/screening, transition narrative/financial analysis and a certified copy of the PSDUP submittal dated June 9, 2014. Prior to the hearing, the petitions and supporting data were reviewed by the Building Commissioner, Conservation Administrator, Town Engineer, Board of Selectmen, the Zoning Administrator, the Planning Director, Economic Development; the Historic District Commission Clerk; Design Advisory Committee and the Zoning Administrator. Comments were received from the Building Commissioner, the Conservation Administrator, Engineering, the Planning Director and a Letter from the Planning Board Chairman; Selectmen’s Office, Design Advisory Committee and the Zoning Administrator. The Chairman opened the hearing at 9:16 pm by reading the legal notices and described information received from the petitioner. The petitioner requested the following zoning relief in accordance with the Zoning By- Law (Chapter 135 of the Code of Lexington): (a) a Special Permit for certain uses and other site improvements, pursuant to sections 135-7.3.5 and 135-9.4.2 and the Preliminary Site Development and Use Plan approved for the site by an act of Town Meeting on June 16, 2014; (b) approval of the Definitive Site Development and Use Plan as consistent with the Preliminary Site Development and Use Plan, pursuant to sections 135-7.3.5.6 and (c) a Special Permit for a standing sign pursuant to sections 135-5.2.10 and 135-9.4.2 Attorney Edmund Grant presented the petition on behalf of Jay Hicks of Artis Senior Living, LLC. Attending with Attorney Grant was Gary Larson, Landscape Architect; Jay Hicks, Senior Vice President of Artis Senior Living and Michael Novak, Civil Engineer Attorney Grant and Michael Novak explained the development plans to the Board. The Chairwoman asked why 2 signs for the entrance. Mr. Novak answered because of the visibility of the site on Concord Avenue from both directions.