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•Monday,May 22, 2000 Managing Growth Working Group Minutes for 5/ Page:2 <br /> 16 meeting <br /> Time: 7 - 9:30 pm <br /> 5/30 Feedback from CPG due <br /> Next meeting of this workgroup <br /> 6/6 Last meeting of this workgroup <br /> 6/12 Final report due <br /> 6/22 Thank you party for all workgroup participants <br /> Location: Museum of Our National Heritage <br /> Agenda Item 5. <br /> Larry Belvin reported on results of questionnaire. <br /> *** Number of responses not statistically significant <br /> although 10% of Town Meeting Members responded <br /> *** No clear consensus from TMMs on priority of 8 issues <br /> listed in questionnaire, although majority of non-TMM <br /> respondents put Hanscom as #1 issue <br /> *** % of increase in taxes to pay for open space acceptable <br /> to respondents was about 1%, which was not enough money <br /> to do much with <br /> *** One interesting comment from one of the respondents: real <br /> estate taxes should be based more on house value than land <br /> value. <br /> There was some discussion in the group about the comment on real <br /> estate taxes. Consensus was that it was an intriguing idea. <br /> Karl Kastorf led the group in thanking Larry for the effort he <br /> put into this public outreach effort. <br /> Mike Hanauer noted that it was interesting that so many respondents <br /> considered Hanscom as the #1 priority issue. Donna Rossi asked whether <br /> any of the working groups are directly addressing the Hanscom issue. <br /> Response from group members was that no working group seems to be <br /> addressing Hanscom as a separate, stand-alone issue. Karl noted that <br /> our group agreed to include Hanscom as part of our general issues, but <br /> not as a separate issue. <br /> Agenda Item 6. <br /> Tom Harden, as primary author of the draft narrative, pointed out <br /> that the draft was missing mention of our public outreach efforts <br /> and any attempt to address costs and priorities. <br /> John Andrews proposed substitute text for the "managed growth" and <br /> "anti-growth" paragraphs in the draft narrative, which the group <br /> discussed. <br /> Most of the group agreed about John's point that "change" rather than <br /> "growth" <br /> will be what happens in the future -- that large, expansive growth is <br /> really <br /> not possible any more in Lexington. Several group members suggested <br /> that the <br /> narrative discuss "managing change. " <br /> Several group members expressed unhappiness with the labels "managed <br /> growth" and <br /> "anti-growth" used in the draft report because they felt that they had <br /> mail box:/Macintosh%20HD/System%20Folder/ <br /> Preferences/Netscape%20Users/ <br />