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PLANNING BOARD MEETING November 24, 1971 ' The meeting of the Lexington Planning Board was called to order at 7:30 p.m. by the chairman, Mrs. Brown with members Lund, Clarke, Costello and Graham, planning director Zaleski and secretary Mrs. Snow present. The proposed meeting of the Lexington and Lincoln planning boards will M.M. Reg.Tech. i be postponed pending discussion by each board, separately, of a proposed Hi. Sch. Lincoln/Lexington site for the Minute Man Regional Vocational Technical School. Mrs. Brown has agreed to contact Mr. Eric Mollo-Christensen re- garding the location of an alternate Lexington site for this school. The letter to the Board of Selectmen from the Planning Board regarding the STREET list of subdivision streets to be proposed for acceptance at the Town ACCEPTANCE Meeting was noted and approved to be sent. The letter from the Planning Board to the Town Counsel requesting guidelinesT/COUNSEL on old subdivision streets was noted. OLD SUBD. STS Drafts of a letter by Mr. Zaleski and Mr. LUnd to Mr. William Hamilton HAMILTON/ re. proposal of a high rise apartment building on Waltham St. were read HI.RISE APT. and discussed. Revisions will be made as suggested by members and it was voted that the letter be sent as revised. ' A list, prepared by Mrs. Brown, of items to be considered by the Board for WARRANT ART. Warrant Articles for the Annual Town Meeting was reviewed by the members. ITEM LIST It was decided that three of these be prepared as Articles at this time as follows: 1. An Article proposing that land in the Concord Ave. area be acquired by CONCORD AVE. the Town for recreation purposes will be presented. Mr. Lund agreed to PLAYGROUND contact Mr. Corrazini, owner of a large tract on Concord Ave., relative to sale of his land. Mr. Corrazini is to be invited to a Planning Board meeting for further discussion of the matter. 2. An Article proposing that the Town Meeting authorize the Board of T. TITLE LOTS Selectmen to sell tax title lots, sites unspecified, for use for SCATTERED scattered site subsidized housing may be drafted. The Planning Board will SITE HSING decide on this Article after the Dec. 13 joint meeting of the LCSR scattered site housing subcommittee, Interfaith Corp. and the Planning Board. 3. An Article requesting an appropriation, amount as yet unspecified, for SOIL STUDIES FUNDS TO BE USED FOR SOIL STUDIES IN PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT SITES. Mr. Zal- APPROPRIATION eski will send inquiries to three consulting firms including environment- alists, soil specialists and civil engineers, to obtain estimates of the scope and cost of such studies for three sites averaging 20 acres each annually to aid in establishing the amount to be requested in the Article. Representatives of the one or more firms may be invited to a future Planning Board meeting for further discussion upon the receipt of their replies. ' Mr. Michelman's concept of "increased density bonus" for developers pro- INCREASED viding a certain percentage of subsidized housing in their subdivisions DENSITY BONUS was mentioned and it was agreed that this may be presented as an Article in a Special Town Meeting later in 1972, but that the time is probably too short to have the Article ready for inclusion in the Annual Town Meeting Warrant.