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PLANNING BOARD HEARING IMay 23, 1966 The Lexington Planning Board held a public hearing in the Science Lecture Hall, Lexington High School, on May 23, 1966, with approximately 60 persons present. Chairman Campbell opened the meeting at 8:00 p.m. by reading the notice as it had appeared in the Lexington Minute -man, after which the first two sections dealing with C 1 districts were taken up. The first section calls for an amend- ment to the Lexington Zoning By -Law to strike out Sec. 8(b)l.c.(2) and substitute "if a boundary abuts on or is within 10 ft. of an R 1, R 2 or A 1 district there shall be a 20 ft. yard along such boundary of which 10 ft. nearest the boundary shall be unpaved and contain only grass, trees, etc. but shall not be used for parking, driveways or storage." The second section deals with Sec.8(b)l.b. whereby a parking area on the lot containing not less than one park- ing space for each 150 sq.ft. of floor area, instead of 100 ft., shall be required. Slides were shown in illustration of both these propos- als. A question was asked as to whether this change would affect the present buildings and the reply was that it would not. Someone else asked what assurance we had that this strip would not become an eyesore, overgrown with weeds and such. ' Mrs. Riffin said she would like to see the word "screening" used, but she thought it could only up -grade property to insist there be some plants, shrubs, or some sort of green used in such strips. Mr. Cammarata said he lived in Arlington but owned property at 334 Woburn St. and wanted to build a storage area, but he felt this proposal would not leave enough room and would this affect his property. Mr. Campbell replied that if he altered or added, it would affect. Mr. Cammarata asked if rubbish disposal protection were allowed and was told yes, if it was 20 ft. from the boundary. This is in a C 1 zone and a 20 ft. yard is required in any event where the property abuts an R 1 or R 2 district and this would not make any difference. Mr. Worrell explained that the 10 ft. cannot be used for storage - it would mean having something green instead of paving. Mr. Cammarata said he parked about 3 cars in the 10 foot area and he would lose parking space for the three cars. Mr. Worrell said he would not lose the parking space as long as he didn't change anything but if he wanted to rebuild, it would come under the new law. Mr. Green said that when you spell out the detail of the shrubs, plants, etc. you tend to be too definitive and may exclude things you might want at a future time. Slides were shown illustrating various sized buildings and how