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3SU Burlington Strip Selectmen's Meeting January. 3, 1974 Senator.MacKenzie: Quite often it is not looked at from the way another bill was passed. One reason for separating was for control; had calls from Lexington School Department as the administrators wanted to be in the union, and not be executives. Thirdly, I am concernedabout the reenactment of the Boston Tea Party and the massive problem of transportation, and I am convinced that the legislature has no handle on this. Speaking as a member of the Bicentennial Commission, we.haven't had sufficient meetings. The proposal-`tb acquire Mt. Greylock and Boston Harbor islands comes too late. 1 hope the state will take definite action and, if not, 1 would like to see Lexington, Concord and Bedford loudly proclaim. We are going to have tremendous problems and we should all join with the legislators. Chairman Kenney: We will be in contact with.•you.concerning that specific matter'during the upcoming months. You know our plans are contingent upon certain assistance from the federal and state government. Funding, initially, is'good and there are certain amounts of money for overtime, National Guard assistance, and for hospital. type aid. If it is not forthcoming, it would mean major reduction in our plans. Mr. Brown: Lots of people in Lexington are worried about your. sponsorship of the underpass at Route 3. It would be of interest if you would update these worried people. 1 Senator MacKenzie: They shouldn't be worried. The acres in Burlington to be developed were .considered on a master plan. When. I first learned of the bill being filed, 1 got,the bill killed in the senate. It was basically agreed at that timethat it was not a question of whether it would be.developed, and how. More informed citizens of Lexington had objections on anything that would holdup developing the land. It boiled down to - • 1. Whether that would adversely approach the watersupply of Bedford, D.N.R. finally said they would be against it.un- less there was adequate protection there. 2. Traffic: We asked questions of Burlington and they said. "we will take care of it." 1 -ignored that and killed the. bill again. Another thing, in order to develop there was.no buffer, and the bill,was stopped for the second year. The thing that happened was that'Burlington gave a buffer zone of 100 feet and Lexington did the same thing, to take by eminent domain for conservation purposes.. Mr. Brown: It is 10 feet in some places. Chairman Kenney: When we first discussed this, it was a.pera- mount issue'and the position of the Town was, obviously, we did not look forward to that land being developed, Particularly, beoause.of the traffic, we wanted to stop any access and we were concerned with the buffer strip. We were talking.about the density and 1 understand rezoning has changed the density.