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Mr. Eddison referred to a letter from Charles Parrott, ��oncord Town Counsel, in which he outlined the process under State Law for the formation of a Regional Planning District, and the organization and procedural rules for such an agency. T t was noted that in its current form, the HATS II governing. body is compri of Selectmen from the four towns, whereas as an RPD, Planning Board members of the towns involved would be the ),rating members, thus, HATS, as it stands, could not qualify as the governing body of a Hanscom RPD without a change in the law or in the HATS structure. fir. Eddison felt that the leadership of the four Selectmen contributes significantly to its effectiveness and that it would not seem wise to convert the organization into a District Planning commission. As an alternative, he suggested that efforts be made to get passage of a Home Rule bill by the Legislature to expand the definition of an RPD at Hanscom so as to make HATS eligible to be its governing body. Based on probable success with those �ffo rts, it Eddison asked the Board its view on sponsoring an article for the 1991 Town Meeting to establish a Hanscom Area Planning District. Mr. Marshall referred to the use of the lieu of taxes revenue which would be gained by HATS and stated that he would prefer to see it go to the individual towns to fund the actual design and construction of road improvement, with small amounts rather than the major portion, spent on planning. Mrs -Smith expressed her support of regional planning, noting that towns in addition to Lexington, Lincoln, concord and Bedford are responsible for generation of traffic that impacts the wow Hanscom area. She asked who would be making decisions on the use of the li of tax money and haw binding decisions by the RPD t} ould be . Mr Eddison noted that because the exploration of the �aor• kings of an RPD is in its initial stage, he was not able to �:�r�s�ce r all quest on such procedures at this time. Mr . Daile�� felt that HATS operates on a most effective level as it is. He saw value in invest igatin' a change to RFD, but he Iiad concerns that if ether than the four towns were to be involved, the organization would operate on a different level and favored staying with the same voting members. Mr. McSweeney asked about possible staffing needs of an RPD and i�' there might be any coordination of efforts with the State Planning Agencies. Mr. Eddison then referred to the Town Engineer's memo on "Hanscom Area Town Study 11", a review by MAPC of area problems, solutions and priorities for action. The memo outlined the important issues presented in the study and listed the conclusions that the three most important projects for mitigating traffic congestion in the Hanscom area are: Rte. 3 including the Rte. 128 interchange Rte 2 from Bedford Road to Reformatory circle Access improvements to Hartwell Avenue from Rte. 4/225