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PLANNING BOARD MINUTES MEETING OF JUNE 20, 1983 The meeting of the Lexington Planning Board, held in Room G-15, Town Offices, was called to order at 7:38 p.m. by the Chairman Mrs. Smith, with members Flemings, Sorensen, Uhrig and Planning Director Bowyer present. Mrs. Nichols was absent. 119. APPROVAL OF MINUTES On the motion of Mrs. Uhrig, seconded by Mrs. Flemings, the minutes of the meeting of June 6, 1983, were approved unanimously as written. PLANS NOT REQUIRING SUBDIVISION APPROVAL 120. Pelham Road, Sister Mary Sears, SGM: Form A-83/3 Mr. Bowyer reported that Donald Forand, the land surveyor who had prepared the plan, questioned why the Board had not approved the plan because a notation was placed on the plan indicating Lot 2 did not conform to zoning regulations. Mr. Sorensen commented that the plan does not meet one of the two criteria, frontage, that the Board must address. Creation of some previous substandard lots has come back to haunt the Board and the Town. Roger Corbin, Boston Survey Company, stated he had recently been placed in charge of the Miller and Nylander office in Lexington. He pledged that the Board would have sufficient information about Form A transactions in the future. 121. 73 Grassland Street, Paul Valihura: Form A-83/4 ' The Board reviewed a plan, dated 4/28/83 , by Donald J. Forand, Registered Land Surveyor, of a proposed transfer of property between Paul Valihura and Barbara DeMille, who are brother and sister. Each of them owns a pre-existing, nonconform- ing lot with fifty feet of frontage. They propose to exchange land in the middle and rear of the two lots with the result that the area of each lot remains the same as present; the frontage of each lot would not be changed. The result would be a long thin section in the middle of the Valihura lot, commonly called a 'pork chop' lot. Several members expressed concerne about the precedent that approval of this plan might create. On the motion of Mr. Sorensen, seconded by Mrs. Flemings, it was voted unanimously to: 1) defer action on the plan until it could be reviewed by Town Counsel, and 2) conduct a telephone poll of the Board so that a vote can be taken within the fourteen day period prescribed by the statute for action on this type of plan. OPINION ON CONSTRUCTION OF UNACCEPTED STREET 122, Hayes Lane, Map 48, Lot 211, CUS 83/1: The Board reviewed a staff analysis, dated June 16, 1983, of a request from Charles W. Morgan for the determination of the adequacy of the construction of Hayes Lane and a plan for improvements to Hayes Lane dated June 14, 1983, prepared by Roger Corbin, There was a memorandum from the Town Engineer, Francis Fields, dated June 16, 1983, that commented primarily on sewer service and recommended the proposed road be extended three feet at the Fletcher Avenue intersection.