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Tuesday,April 11, 2000 minutes of managing growth meeting:3/16 Page:2 Web Page on Lexington Home page Hard Copy of a questionnaire available at Cary Memorial Library Document at Town Meeting Document at Senior Center Document at Town Offices Hold a public meeting Marianne Lazarus will ask the Minuteman if we can write an article and have them publish it- perhaps treat it as a guest column. Markus Pinney will talk to Lexington offices about posting a document/ questionnaire on the Lexington Home page. Ione Garing will ask the library, town meeting, senior center, and town offices if we can leave an article at each of these locations. Marianne will ask the steering committee if we have the money to pay for this. Questions were brought up by Tom asking if a document is really the best way to communicate our groups efforts. John wonders how we should go about collecting the feedback we intend to get from the public. The 2 proposals for our outreach activity have been narrowed down to: a public meeting a document/ questionnaire Both options would address our goals as they pertain to managing growth for the year 2020, and request specific feedback (agreeing or disagreeing) from the community. When put to a vote, 4 people were in favor of a public meeting and 8 were in favor of a distribution of a document/ questionnaire. The managing growth committee will work towards writing, developing, and distributing a document/ questionnaire as our Outreach Activity VISION STATEMENT: Ed Vail felt that something should be added to the vision statement in reference to protecting our athletic facilities. Suzanne Caton discussed the possibility of adding a statement to maintain the obvious neighborhoods presently existing in Lexington. Ione Oaring suggest that we change the word "wild" to "natural" in the first paragraph. Limit and direct growth was added to the second paragraph. Tom Harden suggested that we add a statement about collaborating with neighboring communities in the region, not just isolating Lexington. the word "town" will be lowercase in the final draft of the vision. The following is our tentative definition of mansionization: "Mansionization is defined as a reconstruction of an existing house grossly out of proportion in context of the surrounding neighborhood and size of lot." We should add a statement about the need for zoning laws due to the loss of open space and mansionization. We need to revisit the idea of a coherent neighborhood during our next meeting. We should include an introduction at the beginning of the vision stating that we are writing it from the perspective of a person in the year 2020. Time, date, and location of next meeting scheduled: The next meeting will be on March 30, 2000 @ 7:00 pm in room 111 at the Dwn Hall. The meeting for 4/20 has been rescheduled to 4/18. The meetings on 4/6 and 5/4 will both be held in room 111 at town hall. mai Ibox:/Macintosh%20H D/System%20Folder/ Preferences/Netscape%20Users/