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Town Of Lexington Economic Development Advisory Committee March 18th, 2021 Minutes for the meeting of March 18, 2021. This meeting was held remotely pursuant to Governor Baker's March 12, 2020 order suspending certain provisions of G.L. c. 30A, section 18 and subsequent orders imposing strict limitations on the number of people who may gather in one place. Members present: Rick DeAngelis (Chair), Co-Vice Chair Larry Smith, John McWeeney, Charles Minasian, David Pronchick, Co-Vice Chair George Burnell Liaisons and Town Staff: Mark Sandeen (Select Board), Jill Hai (Select Board), Charles Hornig (Planning Board), Sandhya Iyer (Economic Development Director), Casey Hagerty (Economic Development Coordinator), Guests: Matt Daggett The Economic Development Advisory Committee reviewed the Annual Town Meeting 2021 Article 44 at their meeting on March 18, 2021. A motion to recommend approval of Article 44 to the Select Board and Planning Board by the committee was made by Mr. DeAngelis and seconded by Mr. Pronchick The motion was approved 5-0 and 1 absentee by a roll call vote. The Economic Development Advisory Committee reviewed the Annual Town Meeting 2021 Article 45 at their meeting on March 18, 2021. A motion to recommend approval of Article 45 as written including the changes to the Table of Use to the Select Board and Planning Board by the committee was made by Mr. DeAngelis and seconded by Mr. McWeeney. The motion was approved 5-0 and 1 absentee by a roll call vote. Mr. Matt Daggett presented Article 36 again to the committee and discussed the need and the benefits that other communities have achieved through a surcharge levied on commercial developers for affordable housing in a community. The committee discussed the article and took a vote on their position for not supporting the article. The Economic Development Advisory Committee reviewed Annual Town Meeting 2021 Article 36 at their meeting on March 18, 2021. The Committee discussed affordable housing surcharge on commercial development needs additional assessment and comprehensive analysis using comparative communities based on the tax rate as well as the Triple Net Lease value in each community. This discussion was followed by a motion not to recommend the approval of Article 36 to the Select Board made by Mr. Smith and seconded by Mr. Burnell. The motion was approved 6-0 by a roll call vote. The committee discussed new committee appointment and recommendation to the Select Board. The committee recommended appointing Adrienne D. Ortyl, Bridger McGaw, John Wu, and Lisa R. Murray for the open positions. In addition to the selection of these four candidates, the committee also discussed recommending the Select Board to increase the current membership requirement from nine members to ten members to accommodate all four candidates.