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PLANNING BOARD MINUTES MEETING OF JANUARY 16, 2008 A meeting of the Lexington Planning Board in Cary Auditorium, Cary Hall, was called to order at 7:30 p.m. by Chairman Hornig with members Canale, Galaitsis, Manz, and planning staff McCall-Taylor, Henry and Kaufman present. Mr. Zurlo was absent. ***************************ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS****************************** Lexington Technology Park Definitive Site Development and Use Plan: Mr. Canale recused himself since he is an abutter to an abutter. Ed Grant, Robert Buckley, Brian Lawler and John Hart made the presentation. Mr. Grant noted that in April 2004, Town Meeting approved the Preliminary Site Development and Use Plan (PSDUP) and CD rezoning. In October 2007, a Special Town Meeting approved a Tax Incentive Financing agreement with Shire, Inc. There was an Approval Not Required proposal that re-lotted the parcels to separate 125 Spring Street, 500 Patriot Way, and the parcel covered by the TIF. The Definitive Site Development and Use Plan is coming before the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) to apply for a special permit with site plan review confirming that the definitive plans conform to what was approved at Town Meeting. Limited revisions can be made with the approval of the ZBA. The plan does substantially comply with the PSDUP, but the applicant is requesting approval of some revisions because of biotech manufacturing needs. The applicant has given the ZBA alternatives by applying for variances as well as a special permit to address the dimensional changes. Attorney Bob Buckley, of Riemer & Braunstein, LLP, said the layout is virtually the same and his legal opinion is that the ZBA can grant the special permit. The plan includes a gross floor area increase due to the mechanical needs of the biotech use, but the net floor area remains the same. The requested five-foot increase in height for building 400 is for exhaust and boiler stacks for a safer operation and is due to wind wake analysis. He characterized the change in the impervious surface ratio as a scrivener’s error, as the square footage of the entire parcel was inadvertently misstated in the PSDUP. John Hart, engineer, said the building envelopes were the same, the existing road is maintained, there is no work around the 500 building or within the wetland buffer. The new numbers include the possible expansion of only the 400 building. While some parking spaces (196 spaces) are held in reserve, they are included in the calculations. The project has been before the Conservation Commission, and a further hearing is scheduled.