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PLANNING BOARD MINUTES MEETING OF AUGUST 14, 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, and planning staff interim planner Eve Tapper and Lori Kaufman present. **********************DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION*********************** PUBLIC HEARINGS Rangeway Extension (Map 87 lot 37), Public Hearing Definitive Subdivision: Mr. Peters is recused from this project. Mr. Canale opened the continued public hearing at 7:02 p.m. with 0 people in the audience. The applicant has requested a continuance to September 11, 2019, subject to the Board’s approval. Concern was raised with the number of continuances requested and is there good reason to believe this will be the last one. Mr. Grant said at the last meeting the Conservation Commission did not have a quorum and their public hearing was pushed to August 19 and he expects the Conservation Commission to finish that night. On a motion of Mr. Hornig, seconded by Ms. Johnson, it was voted, 4-0, to continue the public hearing to September 11, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. in the Selectmen’s Meeting Room. 186 Bedford Street, PD-4 District, Public Hearing: Mr. Canale, opened the continued public hearing at 7:06 p.m. with approximately 15 people in the audience. Present were Ed Grant, attorney, Philip Ciampa, Joe Ciampa, and Tony Ciampa, applicants, Doug Hartnett, project engineer from Highpoint Engineering, Mike Radner, landscape architect from Radner Design Associates, and Robert Michaud, senior project manager from MDM Transportation Consultants. Mr. Grant explained the changes that were made to the revised PSDUP, revised plans, and the approved and executed MOU that were submitted to the Board. Mr. Hartnett presented the revised plans which included the basement floor plan, landscape plan, re-location of the transformer (upon approval from Eversource), adjustments to the grading plan, and the revised FAR computation. He explained that the applicant is retaining an arborist to evaluate and maintain the health of the trees during excavation. The applicant’s team looked at ground source heat pumps as requested and it would not be possible for a number of reasons which include the