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PLANNING BOARD MINUTES MEETING OF APRIL 10, 2017 A meeting of the Lexington Planning Board, held in the Parker Room, Town Office Building was called to order at 12:15 p.m. by Chair, Richard Canale with members Charles Hornig, Nancy Corcoran-Ronchetti, Bob Creech and planning staff Aaron Henry, David Fields, and Lori Kaufman present. Ginna Johnson joined the meeting remotely as this was a daytime meeting and she had to be at work. *******************************STAFF REPORTS******************************** General Updates: Brookhaven has been moved to Monday April 24 for Town Meeting. *********************2017 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING **************************** Preparations for Town Meeting: Article 40, Special Permit Residential Developments: The Board needs to explain the information better and staff has provided documentation to show all special permit developments and RDs since 2008 which include the number of units, size of lot, and years they were developed/approved. The Board needs to come to some consensus about this Article. Board Comments:  Happy with Article 40 with no substantive changes.  Changes to Section 6.9.2.2 included bulleting text to provide more clarity to applicants.  Market-rate was added to Section 6.9.2.3.  Section 6.9.4.1 was made clearer as to how to reach the true total for the Dwelling Unit Count.  Added additional accessory apartments to Section 6.9.2.1.  Section 6.9.3.b - affordable units may not be the smallest units in a development.  Section 6.9.11.7 & 8 - the applicant has demonstrated compliance with building code. On a motion duly made and seconded, by a roll call vote of the Board – Mr. Hornig, Ms. Corcoran-Ronchetti, Mr. Canale, Mr. Creech, and Ms. Johnson – voted 5-0 to go forward with the changes listed above. A member recommended to not approve bringing this article to Town Meeting since we have not communicated it well enough to TMMA and it would not be productive for Town Meeting to vote on this.