Planning Board minutes 1989-06-26

Browse Search

- - PLANNING BOARD MINUTES MEETING OF JUNE 26, 1989 The meeting of the Lexington Planning Board, held in Room G-15, Town Office Building, was called to order at 7: 33 p.m. by the Chairman Mrs. Uhrig, with members Klauminzer, Sorensen, Williams, Wood, Planning Director Bowyer, Assistant Planner Nordby and Secretary Peters present. ********************** REPORTS ******************************************* 171. Planning Director a. Royal Circle: Mr. Bowyer announced that a definitive plan for Royal Circle was been filed late this afternoon and that there will be a rollout for the Board at the next meeting. b. Chapter 774, Second Working Group: Mr. Bowyer met with the second of the EOCD groups working on the revisions to the administrative rules of Chapter 774; this group is working on recognizing local initiatives in the construction of affordable housing. In response to Mr. Sorensen's question as to how local initiatives could be authorized under the statute, he reported that EOCD proposes to revise the administrative rules so that, for the purposes of this program, any local initiative that meets with their approval will be considered a State subsidized program. 1 The group also discussed a draft report prepared by EOCD, which those of the Committee who represented cities and towns, considered punitive rather than permissive. The attitude contained in the report seemed to be that the suburbs are shirking their responsibilities to provide family type housing, and will find a way out of it by just doing elderly housing. Mr. Bowyer also reported it appeared that not all that Lexington has done previously, as affordable housing, will qualify. ************ ADMINISTRATION OF LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS ***************** SUBDIVISION OF LAND 172. Pheasant Brook II, Robert Cataldo: The Board reviewed revised drafts of a Certificate of Action, one approving and one disapproving the definitive plan, and a draft Special Permit disapproving the plan, that were prepared as the Board directed the previous week. They began by discussing the draft Certificate of Action, approving with conditions, which had received a 3-2 favorable straw vote last week. The Board agreed they had no difficulty with the layout of the subdivision street as filed, showing a conventional sub- division with a cul-de-sac off the main road. Mrs. Klauminzer stated she has had second thoughts about her straw vote in favor of the definitive subdivision plan. She said she was satisfied with the street layout, but believed there would be a problem since eventually the Board must certify that the road was constructed to the specifications con- tained in the definitive plan. She felt the Board can not do this since there is no information as to what the existing condition of the road right-of-way is today, and she did not think this information could be added as conditions to the Certificate of Action, before them, but should have been contained in