2006-03-06-TE-Warrant-and-2006-03-27-ATM-Warrant

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DESCRIPTION The objective of this By-Law amendment (available for inspection in the Planning Board office, along with a report and recommendations by the Planning Board to be filed with the town meeting) is to insure that residential developments authorized by special permit will contribute to the affordable housing supply in the Town. The provisions are designed to require a percentage of the units in such developments be affordable to people with a range of incomes, and to provide some housing at prices that are lower than what is available on the open market. Such units will be known as inclusionary units and will be subject to price, income, and asset limitations Units will be subject to price/rent level limitations that will make them affordable to households earning up to 140 percent of the metropolitan Boston area median income (AMI) Deed and special permit restrictions would assure that the purchaser's income and assets meet prescribed limits and that affordability will continue upon the resale of the dwelling unit. Rental units will be subject to annual monitoring. For both owner- and renter-occupied units, marketing plans must meet local preference and fair housing requirements, consistent with state and federal law ARTICLE 5 ZONING BY-LAW, IMPERVIOUS SURFACE To see if the Town will vote to amend §135-45 of the Zoning By-Law of the Town of Lexington by increasing the permitted impervious surface ratios (ISR)to 0 30 for cluster subdivisions, special residential developments and developments with significant public benefit in the RS and RT zones and to 0 20 in the RO zone and allowing the Planning Board to modify the maximum impervious surface ratio allowed in cluster subdivisions and special residential developments, or act in any manner in relation thereto (Inserted at the request of the Planning Board) DESCRIPTION This article will increase the permitted impervious surface ratios allowed in cluster subdivisions, special residential developments and developments with significant public benefit in order to remove a disincentive to these units that exists in the current Zoning By-Law While current practice has been to not count the impervious surface of roadways and interior drives toward the maximum allowed impervious surface ratio in the developments mentioned above, a recent interpretation of how the by-law should be applied would require these surfaces to be a part of the total impervious surface in such a development. In conventional subdivisions the roadways are not counted toward the maximum impervious surface as the ratio is calculated only for the individual lots ARTICLE 6 ZONING BY-LAW,PARKING IN CB DISTRICT To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law of the Town of Lexington by revising §135-69 and §135-70 under Article XI, Off-Street Parking and Loading, to amend the parking requirements in the CB District so that parking that is required for a business in the CB district may, by special permit, be provided on another lot within 1,200 feet of the business, even if such lot is not within the CB district, and to remove the requirement that the lease for such off-site spaces be filed in the Registry of Deeds of Middlesex County, or act in any other manner in relation thereto (Inserted at the request of the Planning Board) 8