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Tuesday, March 14, 2000 minutes of 03/02/00 meeting Page:3 Harden, and Gerry) agreed to discuss some substantial changes that Marianne proposed. One member of the sub-committee will e-mail the changes to Karl by Sunday at 8:00pm. There is concern in the group that some of the statistics collected regarding open space, undeveloped land, underdeveloped land, unprotected land, etc. from the Planning Department and from the Conservation Commission conflict. Part of the problem may be that we do not have precise definitions of the preceding terms. For example, Our Museum of Natural Heritage has a lot of what one would consider "open space", but their open space is private even though it is enjoyed by the public [when the public visits the museum] . Gerry Moloney pointed out that his back yard is "open space" of sorts, but that it is private land and should be considered differently than open space that is public land. A suggestion was made to prepare a table that would reconcile these conflicts. No one volunteered to prepare such a table. Glenn Garber added that there are some undeveloped parcels remaining in the business districts in town and that there is a lot of underdeveloped business space (much lower usage of floor- space than is allowed) in the Hartwell Ave. area, but that Hartwell's traffic problem prevents this space from being utilized. Markus Pinney suggested that the Scan should contain some comments on the biodiversity of the town. Markus will send his comments on this subject to Karl for inclusion in the next draft. Markus was nominated to rewrite the first sentence in the "Future Trends" section. Marianne's suggestion for merging the first three sections of the "External Forces" section was approved. Ed Vail will send Karl a few sentences regarding wireless / RF transmissions. The Open Space subcommittee (Karen Longeteig, Lee Sinai, John Andrews) noticed that their submissions appear to have disappeared from the Scan. They will resubmit their sections to Karl for inclusion in the next draft. Suzanne pointed out that our draft was not ready for submission and that we needed another meeting. She also asked Heather H. Sweeney to formally request an 1 week extension for the March 3 Scan deadline for our group, as other groups have also received a 1 week extension. Karl asked for but did not receive a decision regarding when the draft is final and whether we should have a maximum size limit. Larry suggested 10 pages as a limit, and no decision was reached. Karl did say that he will disregard any submissions that are sent to him after 8:00pm on Sunday night. We very briefly discussed our deliverables that follow the Environmental Scan, but since it was close to 9:30, this discussion was extremely brief. The meeting was adjourned at approximately 9:30pm. m ailbox:/Macintosh%2OHD/System%20Folder/ Preferences/Netscape%20Users/