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PLANNING BOARD MINUTES MEETING OF JUNE 3, 2015 A meeting of the Lexington Planning Board, held in the Selectmen’s Meeting Room, was called to order 7:04 p.m. by Vice Chair, Nancy Corcoran-Ronchetti, with members Tim Dunn and Richard Canale, and planning staff Aaron Henry and Lori Kaufman present. Charles Hornig was absent. Ginna Johnson joined the meeting in progress. ***********************************MINUTES********************************* On a motion duly made and seconded, it was voted, 3-0, to approve the minutes for May 6, 2015, as submitted. ***********************ORGANIZATION AND SCHEDULE************************ Upcoming meetings: thth June 9 there is a meeting of the Residential Policy Ad-Hoc Committee, June 10 the Board of Selectmen (BOS) is having a public hearing on the signalization at Massachusetts Avenue and th Woburn Street. On June 17 is the Planning Board reorganization meeting, July 1 and 15 and th August 5 and 19 are the scheduled summer meetings. Mr. Canale will miss the July 15 meeting th and Ms. Johnson will miss the August 5meeting. Ms. Johnson joined the meeting in progress. ***********************DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION********************** PUBLIC HEARING 17 Colony Road, definitive subdivision plan: Ms. Corcoran-Ronchetti called the public hearing to order at 7:14 p.m. with 14 people in the audience. Patricia Nelson, attorney, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, the applicants, Mike Kosmo, engineer and Dan Solien, landscape architect were present. Ms. Nelson explained that the applicant had two conforming lots except for frontage, which were granted variances for the frontage by the Board of Appeals. Most engineering issues have been resolved and the few that remain will be resolved when the applicant’s team meets with Engineering. The main issue before the Planning Board was a request for a sidewalk on one side of the road. Ms. Nelson explained that the construction of a sidewalk would not be a wise idea because this road has a sharp curve and steep grade, which would be creating a dangerous