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12-9-57 .2 - Mr. Sheldon said that Fil.enets options would soon expire, that there should be a special town meeting held as the matter either in January or February, that if it were not held then it would be too late to hold one later. Mr. Rowse said that the cand.ttee felt unnecessary delay was taking place in preparing an acceptable proposal and that the committee was greatly disturbed by it and was of the opinion that various problems raised by the Board could be solved later. Mr. Rowse asked if the committee could expect to receive zoning by-law amendments which the Plan- ning Board could support and which would recommend that the Swenson property be rezoned for regional shopping center use. In considerable detail Mr. Jaquith then discussed the prob- lem which arose in drafting amendments for the regiamai shopping center proposal. Be stated that the by-law was drafted as Film s's representatives thought they had to have it, that they were drafted with Filenets attorney, and that neither the Planning Board nor Filene's were committed to said amendments even up to the day they were drafted in final farm. Mr. Sheldon stated that the co mittee was putting M pres- eu re indirectly because it believed there was a majority of people in town who want a shopping center. He stated that the shopping center was going to be located in Waltham oar Burlington if not in Lexington and that Lexington was going to get its ' share of the center traffic no matter where said center was located. After a lengthy discussion of the traffic problem he further stated that the committee would like to have Roland Greeley meet in joint session with the Board and committee and bring some suggestions for solving the proposed shopping center traffic problem. The Board agreed to hold such a meeting after Mr. Snow had met with representatives of the State Department of Public -Works and the Board was Wormed of the results of this conference. In answer to the question of whether or not an amendment could be developed that the Planning Board would be willing to recommend, Mr. Jaquith stated that it was the feeling of the Board that it should not commmd.t itself on this point at this time. He said that this was not saying that the Board would not support a zoning change because the Board at the present time did not know what future problems might arise. Mr. arindle stated that with certain restrictions the Board was in favor of solving the problem. Mr. Sould stated that the Board had met for two hours as Sunday afternoon to discuss th�eegional shop- ping center proposal and that the whole essence of the discus- sion was that all other matters being equal the Board was in favor of the pr6joct The meeting adjourned at 10x15 p.m. Levi G. Burnell, Jr. Clerk