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Goal: For Commercial Development <br /> • Explore increasing commercial taxes <br /> • Rebalance Commercial growth vs.residential growth <br /> • Use tax rates to encourage types of commercial growth <br /> • Do we want to increase the number of Lexington residents <br /> • Who also work in Lexington <br /> • What kind of commercial development to encourage <br /> • Increase the ability of people who live in Lexington to work in Lexington <br /> • What are current numbers <br /> • Encourage development of small service providers in residential areas <br /> Goal: For Open Space <br /> • Should town preserve existing open space,public&private <br /> • How to make it happen <br /> • Funding <br /> • Change patterns of development <br /> • Active program to acquire i.e. 1%more each year <br /> • Complete conservation commission plan <br /> • Require advertisement of open spaces for sale----agricultural land <br /> • Funding mechanisms for buying open land should be creative,more long-term because <br /> Land is long-term investment <br /> 5. At 8:45 the subject of commercial flights out of Hanscom AFB was discussed. The working group <br /> spent approximately ten minutes on this subject. It was decided that another working group would <br /> handle this and similarly the area towns are working the issue. <br /> 6. At 8:55 we summarized the events of the meeting. The working group is still not ready to assign <br /> subcommittees. It is felt that we still have time in order to do this. Plus,we still have questions from <br /> the"Lexington 2020 Vision Work Group Orientation"to discuss. <br /> 7. Meeting was adjourned at 9:00 <br />