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<br />Greenways Corridor Committee
<br />January 5, 2023
<br />Parker Room - Town Office Building, and zoom
<br />Lexington, Massachusetts
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<br />Members Present: Mal Crawford*, Alex Dohan, Peggy Enders, Bob Hausslein, Bobak Moshiri, Keith Ohmart,
<br />Stephen Perkins, Yifang Gong
<br />Other Attendees: ; Mike Tabaczynski; Susan Kenyon*
<br /> *via zoom
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<br />Votes:
<br />● Meeting minutes of December 8, 2022: Approved - Crawford, Yes; Dohan, Yes; Enders, Yes; Hausslein,
<br />Yes; Moshiri, Yes; Ohmart, Yes; Perkins, Yes; Gong, Yes
<br />● Statement of Concern for Lexington Trees (https://www.lexingtontreestatement.org) - GCC will sign on to
<br />this statement as a supporting organization: Approved - Crawford, No; Dohan, Yes; Enders, Yes; Hausslein,
<br />Yes; Moshiri, Yes; Ohmart, Yes; Perkins, Yes; Gong, Yes
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<br />Reports/Updates:
<br />● Yifang Gong is officially a member of the GCC now, having been appointed by the Select Board..
<br />● Open Space and Recreation Plan - discussion of GCC role. Few specifics are given, but past work is
<br />applauded and future work expected. Public Meeting Jan 10, 6:30pm. Final comments due Jan 30.
<br />● Peggy reports that the Bike-Ped Plan project now has a consultant, VHB, to write the Plan.
<br />● Keith and Mike are working on meeting with Karen Mullins to discuss Route 19, connecting Arlington Great
<br />Meadow and Lower Vine Brook.
<br />● GIS mapping for ACROSS Lexington on the Town website is ongoing. Mike is working with Judy Baldasaro
<br />and other Town staff. Tasks to accomplish: add missing ACROSS routes, reduce the number of trail marker
<br />icons on the digital map, fix broken links.
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<br />Current/Ongoing Business:
<br />● Keith briefly reviewed potential routes for 2023. These include:
<br />○ Route 19, previously noted
<br />○ Route 15, which includes Paint Mine, Simonds Brook, and has potential water issues at the end of
<br />Rangeway Rd. We will review this area in the Spring, with high water.
<br />○ Route 21, which includes Brookhaven, Concord Ave, and connects to the Western Greenway. This
<br />project is waiting on Conservation Division capacity to allow creation of a Land Management Plan
<br />for the “Concord Ave Parcel”.
<br />● Marketing discussion - Bobak re-shared his “Food for Thought” outline (see HERE), which we saw in
<br />December. What are our goals? Primarily, getting more users onto ACROSS routes, and making the routes
<br />fun and accessible for all ages.
<br />○ One project that might help achieve several of these points is an option for people to install
<br />benches along the routes. These could be memorial benches, and would be good resting places,
<br />but also good “targets” for users to seek out.
<br />○ Another project could be a photo contest, to garner more pictures of the ACROSS routes and also
<br />people using them, as well as sights along the ways.Photos could make the map brochure more
<br />intriguing, and the Points of Interest info could go on the website, already accessible with QR
<br />codes.
<br />○ Perhaps high school students could help with the Points of Interest by working on them as a History
<br />project.
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