Planning Board minutes 1989-03-13

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PLANNING BOARD MINUTES MEETING OF MARCH 13, 1989 The meeting of the Lexington Planning Board was called to order in Room G-15, Town Office Building, at 7: 37 p.m. by the Chairman, Mrs. Uhrig, with members Klauminzer, Williams, Wood, Planning Director Bowyer and Assistant Planner Nordby present. Mr. Sorensen arrived at during item 79. 78. Carchia Woods, set surety: The Planning Board determined that the amount of surety needed to insure the completion of the community facilities and the subdivision road, through March 13, 1990, is $46,250. On the motion of Mrs. Klauminzer, seconded by Mrs. Wood, it was voted 4-0: 1) to accept surety in the form of a passbook from BayBank/Middlesex, account number 19447227 in the amount of $47,000, the amount determined necessary to insure the completion of the community facilities and the subdivision; 2) to release Lot 2; and 3) if the subdivision is not completed by March 13, 1990, the amount of surety held will be re-evaluated to determine its relationship between then applicable construction costs and the amount of work remaining to be completed. If little or no work is completed, and the current cost of the amount of work to be completed has increased, the amount of surety will be increased to reflect the costs of completing the work and the developer will be required furnish additional surety to the Town. 79. Planning Director a. Eaton Road, definitive plan, rollout : The Board reviewed, prior to staff review, a definitive plan filed for a two lot subdivision. b. Pheasant Brook II: Conservation Administrator Mendik informed the the Planning Director that since the stop work order was issued by the Conservation Commission, more work has been done by the developer than Mr. Mendik authorized. More gravel was brought in and more work was done on the roadbed. He will be reporting on this to the Conservation Commission. *********************** AFFORDABLE HOUSING ******************************** 80. Preparation for Meeting with Board of Selectmen on Housing: Mrs. Uhrig reported on a memo from Selectmen Chairman Jacquelyn Smith which said the Selectmen, the Housing Authority, LexHAB, have read the revised edition of "Suggested Guidelines .. ." and have agreed to the wording under item 1. ,I Mr. Williams proposed in the first sentence of the second paragraph the deletion of the phrase "than is necessary" at the end of the sentence, so that the sentence would read "The vacant public sites are the Town's principal opportunity to provide a significant amount of affordable housing and are too ..J 1