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Town of Lexington Lexington Center Committee Minutes for the meeting of December 13th, 2018 Parker Room, ground floor 1625 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, Massachusetts Members: Richard Brown, Katherine Huang, Frederic Johnson, Jeffrey Lyon, Pamela Lyons, Jerold Michelson (Chair), Pamela Shadley, David Tabeling Liaisons: Joe Pato, Board of Selectmen, Melisa Tintocalis, Economic Development Director, Megan Zammuto, Economic Development Office Melisa gave the economic development update. Melisa met with the owner of LaDolda, which is coming into the vacant Great Harvest space. LaDolda will have fresh, frozen and dried pasta for takeout. There's been an unsettling rumor that a bank may be moving into the vacant Goodfeet space. This caused some consternation due to the new requirement for incoming banks. There is no news as to anything coming into the Vine Brook space (now vacant for 2 years.) As for the new Visitors Center. The staff recommendation is to rent a mobile unit with restrooms and limited retail at the current site in order to maintain focus on that area. Utilize the temporary unit to inform the public as to what is going on with the new Visitors Center. Pamela Shadley floated the idea that we use space in the Cary Library (already conditioned, major cost savings, good restrooms.) The consensus was that we stay with the temporary space on site as we had voted previously to support. Megan indicated that the bike share racks in the Center would be split up into 2 sets with one set in the Center and the other likely moved to East Lexington. Casey Hager and Jenny Gingrees (Building Department) are working on a flow chart for new businesses. A draft was passed around for comment, with comments requested by the following Tuesday. Jerry suggested that it would be helpful to reactivate the Parking Management Group. Jerry also noted that some parking meter screens are unreadable. This might be a