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PLANNING BOARD MINUTES MEETING OF JUNE 26, 2019 A meeting of the Lexington Planning Board, held in Selectmen’s Meeting Room, in the Town Office Building was called to order at 7:00 p.m. by Chair Richard Canale with members Ginna Johnson, Charles Hornig, Robert Peters, Bob Creech, Michael Leon, Associate Planning Board Member and planning staff Carol Kowalski and Lori Kaufman were present. **********************DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION*********************** PUBLIC HEARINGS: Bridges at 56 Watertown Street, Site Plan Review: Mr. Canale opened the public hearing at 7:05 p.m. with approximately 11 people in the audience. Present were Mr. Ted Tye, Managing Partner for National Development, Steve Senna, Vice President for National Development, John Farrington, attorney, and consultant Theo Kindermans, landscape architect, from Stantec. Mr. Tye highlighted the changes for Bridges from the last meeting which include protecting any existing stonewalls on site, minor changes to the stormwater design in response to the final peer reviewer’s comments, a revised tree schedule to replace trees from sweetgum to shagbark hickory and white spruce trees, all parking lot lights will be timed if not needed for safety and shut off in areas not needed for staff to park at night, the contractor will remove all invasive species within the limit of work, and along the property line of the Golden Avenue there will be a fence eight feet tall and locked for emergency access only which will connect to the existing fence. The existing five foot tall fence will remain in place for now, but within a period of time after the building is open the Golden Avenue residents can request another fence. Waterstone at 55 Watertown Street, Site Plan Review: Mr. Canale opened the continued public hearing at 7:05 p.m. with approximately 11 people in the audience. Present were Mr. Ted Tye, Managing Partner for National Development, Steve Senna, Vice President for National Development, and John Farrington, attorney, and consultants Theo Kindermans, landscape architect from Stantec. Mr. Tye highlighted the changes for Waterstone from the last meeting which include changing to the curbing from Cape Cod curbing to slope granite curbing up the driveway, protect or stockpile for reuse any existing stonewalls on site, shorten the retaining walls around the transformers at the service area, minor stormwater management changes in response to the peer reviewer’s comments, additional protection for the oak tree at the entrance of Waterstone which will to