Planning Board minutes 1989-09-18

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Minutes for the Meeting of September 18, 1989 3 the 1986 Zoning By-Law only for the uses stated on the building permit and not for uses permitted in the former CG zoning district. ************* ARTICLES FOR SEPTEMBER SPECIAL TOWN MEETING ******************* 230. Preparation for Special Town Meeting: The Board reviewed a draft of the 1989 Annual Housing Report and Planning Board Report on Affordable Housing, making corrections. The report will be corrected and ready for action by the Board at its next meeting on September 25, 1989. ******************** ARTICLES FOR 1990 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING ****************** 231. Preliminary Discussion: Mrs. Wood reported that businesses in the Town center have asked to come talk with the Board in the next couple of weeks about how to prepare legislation to allow banners, moving types of signs or window signs. Mr. Bowyer commented that the only major section of the Zoning By-Law that has not recently been revised is the section regulating signs. He added that it will be difficult to revise this section because there are so many policy questions to be resolved before any work can begin on actually drafting a revised section. The Board agreed it would be a very complicated revision, and there would not be time to do it for this year's town meeting. The Board also discussed Mr. Sorensen's proposed zoning revision to Section 1 4.1.8 of the Zoning By-Law that would add wording to clarify what constitutes a substantial change in use and that, where the new use can not meet the standards required for the old use, a new special permit be required. ******************************** REPORTS ********************************** 231. Planning Board. Subcommittees a. Lexington Center Committee: Mrs. Wood reported that the committee had discussed the David Dixon Report at their last meeting. The Planning Board has been asked to read the latest draft and get their comments back to the Board of Selectmen by September 28, 1989. The Board discussed some of their preliminary concerns about the report. The Center committee's next meeting is to be a joint meeting with the Design Advisory Committee on October 10, 1989 at 8 p.m. The Board agreed to send a memo to the Board of Selectmen stating that they will be unable to respond to the David Dixon Report before the middle of October, and that a weeks notice in the middle of preparation for the fall town meeting is not enough time to respond. The meeting was adjourned at 9:30 p.m. 977644 (.4/06L4"4 David G. Williams, Clerk