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1 C' C PLANNING BOARD MEETING January 17, 1966 A regular meeting of the Lexington Planning Board was held in its office, Town Office Building, on Monday, January 17, 1966. Chairman Campbell called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m., with members Bryson, Fowle, Greeley and Riffin, and Planning Director Zaleski present. The Board met with the Capital Expenditures Committee and with Messrs. Woglom of Metcalf & Eddy, and Robert V. Whitman, Chairman of the Steering Committee, Community Planning Organization. Mr. Woglom reported that the application for "701" Urban Planning Assistance funds was approved by Federal authorities and that the official notification can be ex- pected to be received in the near future. Mr. Whitman reviewed the objectives of the long-range study as enumerated in the scope of services proposed by Metcalf & Eddy. Mr. Bryson stressed the desire of the Town to project the existing trends, rather than start with ex- ploring alternatives. A discussion of the various popula- tion growth assumptions to be used as the basis of the study ensued. It was the opinion of the town committees to utilize the existing trends and the September 1964 population pro- jection, assuming a 1990 saturation figure of 50,000 as a basis, with a proviso that citizens'. study committees should be prepared to explore the effects of variations as to time and numbers in the population projection. Mr. Woglom asked what role the Capital Expenditures Committee expected to play in the study. Mr. Boughton re- plied that neither the Capital Expenditures Committee nor the Planning Board could devote themselves to the study because of other statutory responsibilities, so that the Citizens Economic Base Committee would have to stddy the economic base aspects of the study. Mr. Whitman suggested that the Economic Base Committee do the inventory and analysis for the first six months and after that the Steering Committee and members of other committees who showed enough persistence and interest would probably join in the work of coordinating the findings of various committees. It was decided to distribute Mr. Woglom's outline of January 6, 1966 with a covering letter regarding the existing population projection as the basis instead of the three alter- natives and with a revision of the first three pages and of the section on economic base study committee. JOINT MEETING - CAPITAL EXPENDITURES COMMITTEE - METCALF & EDDY - COMMUNITY PLANNING ORGANIZATION Minutes of Planning Board meetings of January 3 and 10 MINUTES 1966 were approved.