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PLANNING BOARD MINUTES MEETING OF JULY 12, 2017 A meeting of the Lexington Planning Board, held in Selectmen’s Meeting Room was called to order at 7:03 p.m. by Chair, Richard Canale with members Charles Hornig, Nancy Corcoran- Ronchetti, Bob Creech, Michael Leon, and Ginna Johnson, and planning staff Aaron Henry, David Kucharsky, and Lori Kaufman present. *******************************STAFF REPORTS******************************** General Updates: Mr. Henry said there was a press release and applications are being accepted for the Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee. Upcoming Meetings and Anticipated Schedule: The next meeting is July 26 and August 16 and 30. *******************ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISCUSSION********************* Stephanie Cronin, Executive Director, Middlesex 3 Coalition: The focus was on best practices for permitting procedures and provided a matrix to help each community benefit from other communities expedited permitted best practices, to make regional improvements. Jay Donovan, Assistant Director, Northern Middlesex Council of Governments: Massachusetts Permitting best practices: The purpose is to give communities areas where they can improve to be able to market themselves to encourage economic development. They were looking for input and responses from the Board regarding the matrix information and corrections. They are working with MAPC and transportation agencies they serve to try to bring them together. Transportation & Land Use Study, Northern Middlesex Council of Governments: This study was done to find out what was going on in other communities with transportation in the region and to make it work better for this area. The hope is to coordinate funding through partnerships in businesses and communities. *********************DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION************************ Proposed Planned Development District: 46-65 Hayden Avenue: Present was Tom Ragno, CEO from King Street Properties, Rob Albro, Managing Director for King Street properties, John Farrington, attorney and William Harris, head architect. The applicant was looking to create more lab and office space and a second multi-story, above- grade parking garage. The goal was to create an environment that is attractive to tenants, which