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•Thursday,April 20, 2000 minutes for 4/18 meeting Page:3 Fred Merrill for suggestions about how the meeting should be handled. 'gyred suggested the following: We should brief the board on the work our group has done so far. We should summarize what we are doing, what we consider the top issues that have come out of our group discussions, what are-the issues that we can and can't agree on. 2. We should get an update from the Planning Board on what they are doing currently. Fred mentioned that they are working on the land use element of the Comprehensive Plan -- analysis of underdeveloped land in the Town at the micro level. Fred expressed the opinion that the goals that we are developing should provide direction to the Planning Board's work in the future. Our goals should provide policy guidelines for the Board's future efforts. It was agreed that we should try to give Maryann McCall-Taylor a copy of our goals document before the meeting date so she can add it to the packages given to the Planning Board members before the meeting. Karl Kastorf will send her a copy of the document. Several group members expressed the opinion that the Planning Board needs to finish the Comprehensive Plan within a reasonable time frame. Group members asked Fred what he felt the Board needed to finish its Comprehensive Plan work -- more resources, time, and money were mentioned. Terry Moloney asked Fred Merrill whether we can ask the Planning Board nor information on what methods might be available to Lexington to stop (or manage) growth. Fred replied that the Planning Board does not address how to stop growth, only how to manage it. However, Fred encouraged the group to bring up these types of issues at the meeting. Tom Harden asked the group whether they felt that the meeting with the Planning Board fulfilled our public outreach requirement. Several group members expressed opinions that the meeting was not enough. Larry Belvin said that he was willing to knock on doors to get further feedback on our goals. Jerry Moloney expressed the concern that we need more feedback from the rest of the community. John Frey suggested that neighborhood associations should be contacted as a possible source of feedback. Tom Harden noted that we are short on time to make this type of contact and then fold any feedback into our report. He suggested that those interested in organizing more outreach activities should form a committee to discuss options and bring suggestions to the next group meeting. Larry Belvin agreed to chair the committee. Anyone who would like to uggest further outreach activities should contact Larry. Mike Hanauer noted that he believes that we, the members of the working mailbox:/Macintosh%20 H D/System%20Folder/ Preferences/Netscape%20Users/