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Planning Board Meeting May 6, 1968 A regular meeting of the Lexington Planning Board was held in its office, Town Office Building, on Monday, May 6, 1968. The meeting was called to order by the Chairman, Mrs. Riffin at 7:40 p.m. with members Clarke, Fowle, Lund and Worrell present; also the secretary, Mrs. Macomber. The minutes of April 29, and April 15 as amended by MINUTES Mr. Worrell were approved. The chairman read a letter by Town Counsel Legro in TOWN MEETING reference to the advertising of the recodified zoning by-law, ARTICLE - which stated that he felt the entire contents of the by-law RECODIFICATION should be advertised, and also that the article for the war- rant as presented was inadequate. Mrs. Riffin explained that due to the time element the ad had to be submitted as of this date, and that Mr. Adams has planned to set it up as an insert for the paper. The hearing will be held on May 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Estabiook Hall. At this time Mr. Legro came to the meeting. He spoke MORRIS MOTOR ' about the form A submitted by Morris Motors which the Board FORM A had refused to endorse, and which had subsequently been taken to court. He -approved the Board's action in refusing to sign. When asked why he felt it necessary to publish the RECODIFICATION entire wording of the recodification, Mr. Legro explained that he felt it very important that the full text be published in order that anyone will be able to know what it is about and can find the answers to their questions by reading it. He felt there was no point in taking chanches which might result in the entire proposal being thrown out and having to come be - for the Town Meeting another time, with additional expense. He didn't think the money which would be saved by not printing the proposal was wroth the risk involved. Mr. Worrell asked why it would not be sufficient to have copies available in public places and Mr. Legro replied thit the law requires it to be published in a newspaper if one is available. This would involve four newspaper pages; Brook- line had eight pages and didn't hesitate to publish. In our 1950 revision the newspaper publication was used. Mrs. Riffin asked Mr. Legro if he would prepare the article for the warrant and he agreed to do so. He said this also would have to in- clude the entire text. Mr. Legro left at 8:10 p.m. ' Mrs. Riffin stated that the Conservation Commission CONSERVATION meeting has been postponed until next Monday when the Planning COMMITTEE Director can be present.