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DESIGN ADVISORY COMMITTEE TOWN OF LEXINGTON Meeting Minutes June 1, 2005 Present: Members and associates: John Frey, Bahig Kaldas, Carl Oldenburg (Chair) Scribe: Carl Oldenburg Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 7:35 PM by Carl Oldenburg. Approvals: The Minutes of the April, 2005, meeting were reviewed and approved. [Note: There was no meeting held in May, 2005.] Presentations/Review: 1.177 Bedford Street/Wireless communications facility: Adam Braillard, representing T-Mobile, presented the proposal for a new 100-foot “faux flagpole” tower housing and concealing wireless communications antenna arrays for T-Mobile and two other future carriers. Submitted and presented information was not complete enough for the DAC to evaluate the visual impact of the height of the proposed tower. Applicant indicated that a balloon test would be conducted on June 8, 9, 10 and 11, 9AM to 1PM, and that photo simulations would be available following that. Therefore, the DAC will postpone final recommendations until viewing the balloon test and review and discussion of the photo simulations and any other materials at the next DAC meeting. However, the DAC does have specific concerns which the applicant is invited to address: a. Diameter of the tower is too great, creating a “fat” proportion to the pole. b. The finial “ball” at the top of the pole is superfluous and out of proportion and should be deleted. c. DAC strongly objects to a flag being flown on this pole. d. DAC objects to the intent of designing a communications tower to be a fake flagpole, and urges the applicant to design this as an elegant, tall, slender tower. e. DAC prefers a wood stockade fence rather than a chain link fence surrounding equipment at the base of the tower, for aesthetic and acoustic advantages.