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<br />PLANNING BOARD MINUTES
<br />MEETING OF MARCH 28, 1984
<br />The meeting of the Lexington Planning Board, held in Room G-15, Town Offices, was
<br />called to order at 7:38 p.m. by the Chairman, Mrs. Smith, with members Cripps,
<br />Flemings, Sorensen, Uhrig, and Planning Director Bowyer present.
<br />ARTICLES FOR 1984 TOWN MEETING
<br />69. Article 14, Parking Requirements: The Board reviewed the revised motion to be
<br />offered under this article and made several changes. On the motion of Mr. Sorensen,
<br />seconded by Mrs. Flemings, it was voted unanimously to approve the motion to be
<br />offered, as amended.
<br />70. Article 16, Parking, Central Business District: The Board reviewed a revised
<br />draft of the motion to be offered under this article and made additional changes.
<br />On the motion of Mr. Sorensen, seconded by Mrs. Flemings, it was voted unanimously
<br />to approve the motion to be offered under this article, as amended.
<br />The Board reviewed the revised draft of the report and changes were made. On the
<br />motion of Mrs. Uhrig, seconded by Mr. Sorensen, it was voted unanimously to
<br />recommend that the Town Meeting approve the amendments, as set forth in the motion
<br />to be attached to the report, and that the report on Article 16, as amended, be
<br />approved.
<br />The Board reviewed a final draft of the "Land Use and Development Policies for
<br />Lexington Center" and changes were made. On the motion of Mrs. Flemings, seconded
<br />by Mr. Sorensen, it was voted unanimously to adopt the "Land Use and Development
<br />Policies for Lexington Center" as amended. These policies will be distributed to
<br />Town Meeting members as a companion to the Planning Board's report on Article 16.
<br />71. Article 18, CR District,;Floor Area Ratio: The Board was in receipt of a
<br />letter dated March 26, 1984, from Norman Richards representing the Xerox Corpora-
<br />tion and signed by Lee Mapletoft for W. R. Grace and Michael Manzo for the Beal
<br />Companies, which offered a compromise proposal acceptable to all three property
<br />owners. The proposal was to delete from the definition of developable site area
<br />wetlands, areas of steep slopes, Wetland Protection zoning district, and other
<br />residential districts and to set the floor area ratio at 0.40. The effect of that
<br />compromise proposal was the floor area ratio would be 0.40 based on lot area, with
<br />no land excluded in the calculation of developable site area.
<br />Lee Mapletoft, of W. R. Grace, was present and explained this letter responds to a
<br />Planning Board request to determine what all the property owners would agree to.
<br />He wanted the Board to understand he had signed that letter because it was what all
<br />the property owners would agree to. W. R. Grace's position is still that an FAR of
<br />0.35, based on developable site area, i.e., with wetlands not included in the
<br />calculation, was acceptable.
<br />Mr. Sorensen reported on some calculations of traffic impacts that he had run on
<br />his computer. He had used the traffic data from Norman Abend's three reports, for
<br />clients on Spring Street and Hayden Avenue, and the floor area data developed by
<br />the Planning Department staff. Using the methodology outlined in Abend's report,
<br />he had assigned the trips generated from the additional floor space to the four
<br />intersections in the area that are affected. Citing the Spring Street -Hayden
<br />Avenue intersection as an example, he showed that the floor area ratio of 0.25
<br />would result in about 2,600 trips entering the intersection in the morning peak
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