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i 1 PLANNING BOARD MEETING May 24, 1971 The meeting of the Lexington Planning Board, in its office, was called to order at 7:30 p.m. on May 24, 1971, by the chairman, Mrs. Brown. Members Costello and Lund, planning director Zaleski, secretary Mrs. Snow and DAC representative holzbog were present. A petition was submitted by Mr. Fred Jones and Mr. Edward Brown of Birch Hill La. which was signed by 8 residents of this subdivision requesting that no further extensions be granted regarding the finishing of this street by the developer. A previous extension until March 1, 1972 had been granted because of transfer of ownership of the subdivision. The work should be completed by November, 1971 in order to comply with that extension date. BIRCH HILL LANE Mr. M. Moore and his attorney met with the board to present a new proposal M. MOORE, JR. for building apartments on land off Bedford St. and the rezoning to RM of land next to the Lexington.Lumber Co. His plan shows 104 units; 33 one - bedroom apartments, 55 two-bedroom apartments and 16 two-bedroom townhouses, 134 parking spaces and 2 two-way accesses from Bedford St. Dependent upon his success with obtaining rezoning, he has a source of commercial financing and would not need government subsidization. Mr. Costello made reference to the letter from Bldg. Inspector Irwin regard- STAR MARKET ing the Star Market violation. Mr. Zaleski had issued a memo in the fall ZONING of 1970 to the Town Manager regarding this violation of RO district regu- VIOLATION lations. It was agreed that the chairman would look into the problem and Mr. Zaleski's earlier report. Conservation Commission members Mesdames Frick and Rawls met with the Board at 8:00 p.m, and discussed briefly the Burlington strip in order to come to a point of view on this matter. Mr. Cataldo had requested a recommendation as to the width of the strip to be taken and it was agreed that a 50 ft. strip should be acquired from the back lots of Wright and Carchia at this time in addition to the land of the Burlington owners. Acquisition at some future time of the wetland or pond for conservation was recommended. Mrs. Brown requested that Mr. Zaleski draw up enough of a description of the Board's recommendation to present it to the Selectmen so that they may get an appraisal. Regarding the Jr. High School site off Woburn St., the premise of the Conservation Commission as presented by Mrs. Frick is that the entire piece of land should be acquired or if not, that great caution should be taken to protect the watershed lowland near the school site and recreation area. It was strongly advised that the wetland not be filled without some provision made for drainage. Mr. Zaleski suggested that a holding -pond be made at the junction of the brooks. CONSERVATION COMMISSION BURLINGTON STRIP CONSERVATION COMMISSION JR.HIGH SCHOOL SITE At 8:30 the Board joined the Selectmen in the Bird Room to attend an,.execu- SEL•ECTKEN tive session. Following a discussion of matters of financial interest to theEXECITOVE Town, the Planning Board returned to its office and resumed open meeting. SESSION The forthcoming report on the recommendations of the DAC on the Central Block was referred to and it was suggested that it would be helpful to the DAC if Mr. Holzbog be given permission to examine the proposal of the Select- men, which contains some confidential information, before submitting this report to the Planning Board on Thursday, May 27th.