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cultural districts. There was some discussion of ongoing vacancies in the Center including Sanyo, Bulpan, LaDolda, Starbucks and Anisoptera. Ms. Spaulding mentioned Art’s Specialties coming in as a new business in the 1666 Mass Ave building. Chris Barry noted that Jimmy Cataldo was currently lightly enforcing the parking regulations in the Center (after a long period of no enforcement due to Covid.) Mr. Cataldo is especially focusing on repeat offenders. There was some discussion of enforcing the sign regulations – Lexington Liquors has one or two sandwich signs which violate our regulations. No sandwich boards are permitted on a public way – this regulation was not enforced during Covid. Committee members agreed it is time to enforce this regulation. The Center Committee voted 7 in favor and 2 abstaining to request that the Town Manager enforce the sign regulations. The Center Committee voted 7 in favor and 1 abstaining to request that the Select Board prioritize a review of the sign by-law and the related issue of temporary signage in public spaces. Charlie Wyman presented the Tree Statement (see LexTrees.org) seeking the endorsement of the Center Committee. The Tree Statement will go to the Select Board on May 22nd. The Center Committee voted 8 to 0 endorse the Tree Statement because the Center’s Tree canopy was a key element in the Center Streetscape Project. The Center Committee voted unanimously to approve the minutes for December, 2022 (6 to 0), January (7 to 0), February (7 to 0), March (8 to 0) and April 7th, 2023 (8 to 0) meetings.