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PLANNING BOARD MINUTES MEETING OF FEBRUARY 26, 2014 A regular meeting of the Lexington Planning Board, held in the Selectmen’s Meeting Room, was called to order at 7:00 p.m. by Chairman Charles Hornig, with members Richard Canale, Greg Zurlo, and Michelle Ciccolo, Nancy Corcoran-Ronchetti and planning staff Maryann McCall- Taylor, Aaron Henry, and Lori Kaufman present. *********************ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENTS ************************ PUBLIC HEARINGS Citizens Petition, Articles 27, 28, & 29: Mr. Hornig called the public hearing to order at 7:02 p.m. There were 30 people in the audience. Ms. Inga Magid the owner of “Keys for Kids” presented her citizen’s petition to allow for-profit educational uses in neighborhood business and residential districts, allow for-profit educational uses in neighborhood business and remove size limitations, and allow for-profit educational uses in the neighborhood business districts. Audience Comments:  Liked the diversity of options in the Town and it would be a shame to lose this school to another community and there was some support of some kind of rezoning to prevent this from happening.  There was opposition to changing all residential zoning throughout the Town.  This would be fine in the commercial districts only. Rezoning the entire Town would be opening a Pandora’s Box.  There were concerns about traffic and noise and therefore opposition to this rezoning.  There was worry about the children and the elderly and all the parking that would be created. Look for a commercial area and clarify the definition of a busy street.  RO and RS District should be exclusively residential homes and the mix would not be good, but the RT and CN Districts on Massachusetts Avenue would be acceptable.  If this was a nonprofit school would this be allowed? Yes nonprofit schools were allowed anywhere. On a motion duly made and seconded, it was voted 5-0, to close the public hearing at 7:59 P.M.