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Acknowledgements .4 1 This plan is the result of a truly collaborative effort among town officials, residents and the business community. It is dedicated to the late Jack Powell, Chamber of Commerce Vice - President, who served on the. Committee for two years. He brought us concern, dedication, wisdom and compromise. He was a vigorous i spokesman for business interests while unfailingly understanding and responsive to the needs of abutting neighbors. He never let us forget the need to preserve the integrity of the center and to enhance its beauty. The Committee and the town miss him sorely. We are deeply indebted to our staff, officials of the Town of Lexington. The parking and traffic improvements we initiated were made possible because Walter Tonaszuck, Director of Public Works, Robert, Bowyer, Director of Planning, and Captain James Lima and Captain Charles Withrow of the Police Department helped us identify problems, devise and implement solutions. They provided hours of quiet research, lengthy negotiations with concerned neighbors, policy directives, town meeting strategies and prompt and effective implementation. Planning Director Bowyer provided and analyzed the planning data; he defined the parameters of our study, initiated and supervised the traffic study and the MAPC Market Analysis. He kept our focus on policy and priorities, and drafted many of our initial parking and land use policy statements. Our own Land Use Subcommittee, under the able direction of Chairman Laura Nichols, spent endless hours compiling vast amounts of data on the center's physical characteristics. Angela Frick, Lexington's MAPC representative, made valuable contributions to our deliberations. John Oberteuffer, Conservation Commission member and liaison with the Center Revitalization Committee, deserves much praise for first suggesting the idea of attendant parking for the Meriam Street lot and then providing much of the research necessary for its successful adoption. iii