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I PLAY'NUNG BO -APD MFET IrTG February 26, 1962 On Monday, February 26, 1962 at 7:45 p.m. the Lexington Planning Board held a regular meet- ing in its office in the Town Office Building. Present were Chairman Soule, members Bryson, Mabee and Meyer and rlanning Director Snow. The first part of the meeting was devoted to an executive session in which Mr. Snow indicated that he did not wish to continue with the present situation in which practically all of his time in the Planning Board office was spent in administra- tive work. He stated that he and Mrs. Macomber had completed the Board's extraordinary backlog of ad- ministrative work including the minutes of the meet- ings of the Board for the vear 1956s that he was con- cluding a memorandum giving a complete report of all the planning; work which had been completed to date, that he hoped to finish so that it could be published and discussed during the Spring his recommended long- range development plan for Lexington, and that upon the completion of all this work that the Board ought to re-examine the staff situation with a view of com- pletely reorganizing the Board's work. Mr. Snow said that he did not wish to leave on the completion of the above work until some means of transition could be arranged to carry on the ad- ministrative phases of the Board's work. He said he was willing to carry on the planning phases of the Board's work only on a part-time or on a consulting basis for the reason that he wanted to be in a posi- tion to carry on private practice. No conclusions were reached in regard to this matter. It was de- cided, however, to continue the discussion _further at a later date. From 9:00 until 9:15 p.m. Mr. Jack P. Gensemer, architect of Cambridge, met with the Bonrd to present his final drawinmof the suggested devel- opment plan which had been originally prepared by Mr. Snow for an expansion of the M 1 district. Mr. Gensemer was asked to prepare from data which Mr. Snow would give him an overlap of said development plan showing existing nroperty lines, roads, ease- ments, etc. Mr. Gensemer was also asked to look into the feasibility of having prepared an 8-1/2" x 11" colored transparencv for projection purposes at the March annual town meeting. EXECUTIVE SESSION PROPOSED CH 1 -CM 1 DISTRICT