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opportunity for the Signage Bylaw to be reviewed. Concern was noted that the Center Committee and HDC were heavily engaged on this matter. The EDO volunteered to schedule future coordination meetings with the Center Committee and Town Staff to explore opportunities to improve the process. EDAC Members Rick DeAngelis and Larry Smith volunteered to look at opportunities to improve both Commercial signage guidelines and engage with the Center Committee to offer and recommendations on the signage bylaw. The EDAC agreed that we go in with an open mind for opportunities in this process review. EDO staff provided an update on Liberty Ride coming back on a limited basis with a 1 year contract with a reduced 2 tour day to stay flat to budget. 3. New Development Projects in Lexington: Members noted that there were no specific projects publicly announced but seemed to be a lot of new activity across town and specific to Hartwell Avenue. 4. Status of Projects Previously reviewed by EDAC including 475 Bedford Street and 95-99 Hayden Avenue: EDO Staff provided updates noting that a continued hearing on 475 Bedford Street was being held tonight (3/9). The 95-99 Hayden Avenue project received Planning board support and that 440 Bedford Street project was also approved. The EDAC also discussed briefly a project at Tracer Lane 2LLC project for a 1 MegaWatt Solar project being considered (on Waltham/Lexington Line) and likely to come to Planning Board for Site Plan review. Mr. Sandeen noted 420-430 Bedford Street project is repositioning their property for redevelopment, 131 Hartwell is also looking to reposition their site; 12-18 Hartwell is also looking to reposition and 95 Hartwell is also looking to redevelop the site. Ms. Iyer noted she will be speaking at BizNow panel about site repositioning efforts and promoting Lexington opportunity. 5. Discussion and deliberation of Annual Town Meeting Articles: EDO confirmed submission of a memo from the Chair sharing the EDAC positions on Articles 31 and 36. 6. Transportation Plan Update: While the Transportation Planning Manager could not attend the meeting a lively discussion about transportation planning ensued. The Regional Transportation project and its size and scale of this review will show a lot of vital information about bus routes, gaps in routes, bus shelter placements. This project is looking at how to improve these routes, scheduling. Link to the Project here: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b30ad87fac9940978859e738c88dffb5 Mr. Pato added a note about an Information Meeting planned for March 15: Rt 128/I-95 Land Use & Transportation Study and requested that this study should expand to include Bedford Street. He is part of the working group – and will keep the EDAC informed monthly as things develop. The topic of Transportation Planning was requested to be added to future meetings. 7. New Business or Urgent business that may properly come before the Committee that could not be foreseen by the Chair: EDAC Vice Chair Larry Smith requested that EDAC organization be added to the April Meeting agenda.