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8. Liaison Updates Liaison reports were sent to the HPB prior to the meeting for ▪ Affordable Housing Trust (Ms. Heitz) ▪ CPC (Mr. Pressman) ▪ Planning Board (Mr. Hornig) ▪ Select Board (Ms. Hai) ▪ Sustainable Lexington Committee (Ms. Arens) The reports are in an attachment below. Planning Board: please see the attached report. Mr. Hornig provided a summary of the report. The Planning Board met on January 10. The report had stated that the floor area definition would be updated, but the Planning Board decided on January 10 not to change the floor area definition. Housing related items: ▪ Update to short-term rentals to impose a few new restrictions to reflect neighbors’ concerns. Also paves the way for short-term rentals in multi-family housing. ▪ There are two changes to the village overlays created for the MBTA Communities Act. One changes the inclusionary housing requirement to reflect feedback from the state. The other change will be to clarify the calculation of the height bonus for mixed use to be more appropriate. The Planning Board is seeking input as to how to calculate the height bonus. ▪ Two landowner petitions asking for their properties to be included in the MFO district have been filed. The Planning Board has scheduled a public hearing on Feb. 7 (as for all changes). The Planning Board encourages all interested parties to come to the hearing. LexHAB: no report. Council on Aging (COA): no report Sustainable Lexington Committee: please see the attached report. Affordable Housing Trust (AHT): please see the attached report. Community Preservation Committee (CPC): please see the attached report. At the meeting, Mr. Pressman added at the meeting that there will be many competing CPC requests and that it will be difficult to ensure that housing will be funding adequately. The HPB will need to continue to press for CPC funding for affordable housing. Ms. Manz complimented Mr. Pressman and Ms. Walker for their ongoing work in support of CPC funding for housing. Ms. Prosnitz and Ms. Tung will be going to the Capital Expenditures and the Appropriations committees to present on the Lowell Street project. 9. New Business Ms. Cohen shared the information she received regarding the Fair Housing webinars. Ms. Thompson shared information about an unrelated presentation also on Fair Housing (6:00 pm on January 16). Ms. Manz asked Ms. Thompson to provide an update at the next meeting. Mr.