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Mr. Marshall said he was prepared to make a decision on the use of the school and did not necessarily accept a need for warehousing of the property as would be the case with the Church use. He did not rank that proposal highly as a permanent use. Regarding a housing use, he was-'in support of Greater Boston Community Development and saw it as a chance to see if Town Meeting irieans to stand behind its expressed Fair Housing Policy. With respect to the warehousing concept, Mr. Sacco was in favor of ""w keeping the school as an option for possible housing use in the future, but not for resumption of school use to meet future needs. He felt that it would take several years to evaluate the Muzzey experience; which, he said, may indicate that similar use would be appropriate for Franklin. Mr. Eddison did not rank warehousing highly and saw no need to reserve the property for educational purposes. He felt the location inappropriate for Congregate Housing. He considered housing of various types, as an ef- fort to increase the rental stock to be of highest priority and recommended a mixed age and income use; which, he felt, would meet the criteria of serving Town needs for low /moderate income housing. Mr. McLaughlin recommended that the Church use should be kept under active consideration as an attractive option and felt it - was as competitive as any proposal received. He agreed with expressions of other members re- garding housing but noted concerns about f inancial returns to the Town which would be provided. He also would want to examine the results of Muzzey be- fore making another commitment to moderate income housing. Mrs. Batt in did not rank warehousing highly. She stressed the import- L ance of keeping permanent control of the land and also honoring commitments regarding housing. She pointed out the need to take neighborhood concerns into consideration. Mr. Marshall said he did not see Renaissance as a provider of low/mod- erate income housing as indicated their other developments, which are market rate. Regarding GBCD, his initial feeling was to try to move to the highest amount of low income housing in a Unix to make it a viable consideration and one present that proposal to Town Meeting. He would be willing to see Renais- sance as an alternative to GBCD, if market rate housing is desired. Proponents of the Church use, GBCD and Renaissance will be invited to the December 17 meeting to present proposals. Mr. McLaughlin asked members to review the three alternative proposals of f erect by GBCD so as to be able to give direction to that developer. Mr. Carroll of the Franklin Committee reported on a request by resi- dents of the School neighborhood that he convey ' their strong support of the Church use to the Board. Senator Senator Kraus met with the Board at 9:00 p.m. by appointment. The Kraus Chairman announced that Representative Doran, who had also planned to be present, probably would be detained at a late session of the House. H62 62 Regarding the Educational Reform Bill (6262), the Board had made its Educ. position clear in letters to the Legislators dated November 20, 1984. In Reform addition to unhappiness with the process and lack of public debate on the Bill bill the Board was concerned with overall costs involved. Senator Kraus reported that the feeling in the Senate was that the bill would not be acted upon this year 'since it is still being debated in the House. He noted that the two concerns in the Senate are cost and the impact on local authority; adding however, that there is commitment to some form of educational reform.