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COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES April 2, 2019 The meeting of the Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee (CPAC), held in the Parker room of the Town Office Building at 1625 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington MA was called to order at 7:16pm by Chair Sarah Felton. CPAC members: Deepak Amenam, Stacy Beuttell, Hema Bhatt, Matthew Daggett, Sarah Felton, Marilyn Fenollosa, Camille Goodwin, Carol Sue Hai, Christian Senna, Patrick Sullivan, and Ruixi Yuan were present. The CPAC meeting was also attended staff members, Julie Mercier, Molly Belanger, and Carol Kowalski. The meeting was facilitated by Jeff Dietrich of Howard Stein Hudson. ********************Review of Comprehensive Plan Timeline ******************** Regional panel discussions—transportation, economic development, housing, etc. Trend reports—pushing goal date out; tied to presentations happening now: demographics, housing, and transportation Stakeholder Interviews Surveys—general demographic information survey will remain open throughout public input process Website—in process; working with town staff to ensure it works before launching; issues regarding loading files should be resolved soon 3 months behind on draft plans Currently the January 2020 goal completion date is not realistic and needs to be pushed back. Planning Board wants a good product and would rather extend the expected completion date. Committee members should submit summer schedules to staff so that they may coordinate working group meetings. ************ Review of Demographic Trends************ Presenters should stay focused on presenting trends and existing conditions with minimal commentary. Older population in Lexington—is it growing or not? Different data sources used by presenters have conflicting statistics. There has been a big change in Lexington over the past 10 years; growth in the Asian population Asian—first generation, children of Asian parents born in US —do they identify as Asians or Americans—related to language spoken at home? Reconcile housing information with housing presentation. Travel time to work—less than 20-35 minutes: Burlington, Waltham, and Lincoln Labs Planning Staff should find out the sample sizes used by American Community Survey.