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Town of Lexington Economic Development Advisory Committee (EDAC) Minutes of Meeting December 20, 2017 A meeting of the EDAC was held on Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at 8:00 a.m. in the Parker Room of the Town Office Building. Members Present: Narain Bhatia, George Burnell, Rick DeAngelis, John McWeeney, Kevin McGuire, Larry Smith, Sig Tullmann Staff Present: Megan Zammuto Liaisons Present: Charles Hornig, Joe Pato Guests Present: Charles Minasian, Members Absent: Tom Dusel, David Pronchick Hartwell Avenue Zoning Initiative M. Zammuto presented the consultants slides from the December 18'h Joint Board of Selectmen and Planning Board Meeting. The committee discussed the relationship between development and infrastructure improvements, and how flexible zoning can send a message to developers. G. Burnell discussed the traffic studies that were done in the area in the 1990's that could be relevant for today's conversation. The committee discussed the residential component of the vision and suggested we look into the number of school aged children that live in Avalon communities. Questions include: • How much residential do we need to support retail? • Do we want any residential in this area? C. Hornig discussed his hope to do something concrete to increase Economic Development for the Annual Spring Town Meeting. He discussed a proposal that a)relaxes dimensional standards in the CM district, b) Make CM districts more like CRO, and additional technical changes that would make the proposal work. His hope was that the Planning Board would recommend this proposal, but they are not moving forward on the proposal at this time. The committee discussed considering a citizens petition to move this idea forward. A motion was made by G. Burnell to support the concept of C. Hornig's proposed articles for consideration at the Annual Town Meeting. The motion was seconded by L. Smith and approved unanimously. Discussion of proposed new zoning district, Marrett Road area: Charles Minasian C. Minasian discussed proposed changes on Marrett Road and Spring Street. The area is currently zoned CN and CS. The presentation included a discussion of what uses would be changing in this proposed new zone that would include seven properties. The board no longer had a quorum, but expressed a general consensus of support for the proposed zoning district.