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PLANNING BOARD MINUTES MEETING OF APRIL 1, 1985 The meeting of the Lexington Planning Board, held in Room G-15, Town Offices, was called to order at 7:10 p.m. by the Chairman, Mrs. Smith, with members Cripps, Flemings, Sorensen, Uhrig, Planning Director Bowyer, and Assistant Planner Delori present. SUBDIVISION OF LAND: 97. Ridge Estates III, off East Emerson Road, Theodore Freeman; PUBLIC HEARING: At 7:10 p.m. the Chairman opened the public hearing on the application for a definitive subdivison plan and concurrently the application for a special permit for a conventional subdivision entitled Ridge Estates III. Representing the applicants were Theodore Freeman, Attorney Dennis Lowe and Carl Bowles of Hayes Engineering. Atorney Dennis Lowe said there would be six house lots constisting of five new lots and lot 37 from the 'Ridge Estates II Subdivision which would be redesignated as lot 1 of the Ridge Estates III Subdivision. All lots complied with the front- age, area and lot circle requirements. Mr. Bowles presented a plan showing an alternate road profile with a maximum grade of 10% If that was to the Board's satisfaction, a waiver would be reques- ted from the 8% maximum slope for a street. Mr. Freeman commented that while a plan for an 8% grade of the road had been submitted, they preferred a 10% slope. He said the land was highly treed and the 8% grade would devastate the land and the tree cover. He asked the Board to consider changing to a 10% slope. In response to a question from Mr. Sorensen, Mr. Bowles pointed out that the cut for the road varied from 6 feet to 14-17 feet. It would be somewhat less with a 10% slope. The Board was in receipt of a letter from Town Engineer Francis Fields to Health Director George Smith, dated March 29, 1985, which said that the plan met en- gineering specifications and that the drainage at the time seemed to be adequate. That will be reviewed further when drainage calculations are submitted. Mrs. Smith read into the record a letter dated March 29, 1985 from Stephen Colan- gelo of 172 East Emerson Road, the owner of lot 38 in the Ridge Estates II Subdi- vision which abuts the proposed subdivision. Colangelo said that he had examined the plan and found it to be inaccurate in that it shows a 25 foot slope easement running parallel to the northeast property line of lot 38. That slope easement does not exist. Mr. Freeman was granted a 3 foot easement for tree removal from lot 38. Colangelo's letter said that in recent days Mr. Freeman started excava- ting for the roadway and Colangelo considered that, in so doing, he was trespas- sing on lot 38 because the work was being done beyond the 3 foot tree removal easement. Mr. Bowyer showed the Board four photographs, which Colangelo had furnished, showing the construction of the road appears to have begun. Mrs. Flemings questioned whether construction was supposed to start before a subdivision had been approved or even before the public hearing on the proposed plan was held. Mr. Freeman answered that construction was really the grading of