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Greenways Corridor Committee December 8, 2022 Parker Room - Town Office Building, and zoom Lexington, Massachusetts Members Present: Mal Crawford*, Alex Dohan, Peggy Enders, Eileen Entin, Bob Hausslein, Bobak Moshiri, Keith Ohmart, Stephen Perkins, Yifang Gong Other Attendees: ; Mike Tabaczynski; Susan Kenyon*; Charles Hornig*, Planning Board liaison *via zoom Votes: Meeting minutes of November 3, 2022: Approved Reports/Updates: ● Does the First Thursday of each month still work for meetings? Yes. March may need to be rescheduled. ● The GCC Charge revisions have been approved by the Select Board. Keith will follow up on Mike’s official appointment as a non-voting member. ● Peggy reports that the Meagherville boardwalk project is now complete - many thanks to Mal and Mike for overseeing the work by soon-to-be Eagle Scout Ian Lewis and other volunteers. ● The Idylwilde trail markings have been re-set on the re-routed trail now that the new sidewalk is in place. We may need to re-route the route at Lincoln St & Marrett Rd if the crosswalk is realigned. ● The Town is interviewing consultants for the Bike Ped Plan. They hope to hire someone in December and begin the work in January. Judy Crocker, now head of Safe Routes to School for the state, mentioned (to Peggy) that there was a survey done at Lexington High School which may show some suggestions that could be useful for GCC to pay attention to. The Town will be reviewing local navigation systems and how they function for differently abled people. Current/Ongoing Business: ● Discussion of Route 19 options. Conservation Parcel 38-137 - the social trail seems to be on Conservation property and not the private parcel. Parcel 47-175, which includes Pheasant Pond, is a Conservation parcel with signed entrances on both Woburn Street and Solomon Pierce Road but currently has no social trail.The owner of parcel 46-128, which is in private hands and abuts parcel 47-175, would need to be approached for an easement to complete a trail connection. Mike was recently at a Friends of Arlington Great Meadow meeting regarding the Arlington’s Great Meadows property and they like the trail idea for a connection in from Maple Street opposite Solomon Pierce Road. However, Arlington is seeking Article 97 status for AGM, which would put it under control of the Arlington Select Board. Also, AGM has been noted as NHESP priority habitat. If we are not able to put a trail across the AGM property, we could use the Emerson Gardens access road. Keith has sent a memo to Karen Mullins and Amber Carr, requesting a meeting to discuss next steps. Permission would also be needed from Lexington Housing Authority for access at Countryside Village (parcels 46-126A and 46-113A) which is contiguous to Harrington School. This could be a Safe Routes to School route. ● GIS Mapping Discussion - Mike has been talking with Judy Baldasaro in the Town IT department to discuss getting the ACROSS Lexington routes onto the Town GIS system. Some, but not all, of the routes are currently available. Uploading the rest of the routes is fairly simple and Mike will get Judy the files she needs. We looked at the Wellesley Trails Viewer, which is similar to what we would have in Lexington. What we need to decide: how complex do we want our legend icons to be; should we put bike routes - see Mike’s outline (see attached) for further details. Many Town departments have map layers, and we need to figure out what works so we don’t duplicate and complicate what already exists. Points for immediate action: ○ Add the newer Routes that are not already in the system ○ Reduce the number of times the Route Letter is shown on each route