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PLANNING BOARD MINUTES MEETING OF MARCH 9, 2015 A meeting of the Lexington Planning Board, held in the Selectmen’s Meeting Room, was called to order at 7:01 p.m. by Chairman Charles Hornig, with members Richard Canale, Timothy Dunn, and Ginna Johnson present. Nancy Corcoran-Ronchetti was absent. The Board immediately moved to the Planning Office in order to continue their meeting. ******************************ZONING ARTICLES***************************** Article 47 - Med. Marijuana: Mr. Hornig felt that the sentence with the recommended motion of the Planning Board was ambiguous in terms of what the minority had voted. He proposed language to indicate that the minority wished to have Town Meeting defeat the article. Mr. Hornig explained that we would th re-vote board positions at the meeting on the 18. Article 48 - Commercial District Lines: Ms. Johnson felt that it was important to explain that there were no changes moving an existing residential use to commercial district. Mr. Hornig felt that there are three cases we decided not to make a change because there was not a consensus in community or on the board. Mr. Hornig will present only one change at TMMA and was considering Bedford & Reed or Waltham & Marrett. Article 49 - Governmental/Civic Use District: Ms. Johnson discussed her changes to the report including proposing that the district name be hyphenated as “Governmental-Civic Use” to avoid confusion. Board members discussed the name of the district briefly. Ms. Johnson discussed further changes to the structure of the report. Article 50 - CM District, Waltham Line near Route 128/I95: Ms. Johnson proposed changes to make the language more factual. Mr. Hornig proposed to adjust the table showing calculations of the net square footage to make clear that the un-zoned