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PLANNING BOARD MINUTES MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2019 A meeting of the Lexington Planning Board, held in Selectmen’s Meeting Room, in the Town Office Building was called to order at 7:01 p.m. by Chair Richard Canale with members Ginna Johnson, Charles Hornig, Robert Peters, Bob Creech, and planning staff Eve Tapper and Lori Kaufman present. **********************DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION*********************** PUBLIC HEARING Rangeway Extension (Map 87 lot 37), Definitive Subdivision: Mr. Canale opened the continued public hearing at 7:03 p.m. with 0 people in the audience. Mr. Peters will be recused from this project. The applicant has requested a continuance to September 25, 2019, and an extension of the action deadline to October 31, 2019, subject to the Board’s approval. On a motion of Mr. Hornig, seconded by Ms. Johnson, it was voted, 4-0, to extend the action deadline to October 31, 2019. On a motion of Mr. Hornig, seconded by Ms. Johnson, it was voted, 4-0, to continue the public hearing to September 25, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. in the Selectmen’s Meeting Room. 186 Bedford Street, Planned Development District, review of draft report to Town Meeting: The Board reviewed the draft report and discussed some minor wordsmithing and substantive changes to the draft report. The substantive changes discussed were as follows:  It was questioned how the 80% of existing tree canopy being retained was calculated and is not a good metric and would rather get the number of tree caliper inches that will be saved on the site. Ms. Johnson will get the exact number and send it to staff;  There was concern about using the LEED silver standards since the applicant will not register in the program or do monitoring in the future. It was decided to remove the words “following LEED Silver standards”;  Since this planned development is adjacent to residential uses concerns were expressed about lowering the on-site noise level from 10 to 5 dBA above ambient. Since the proponents of this petition have not yet agreed to this limitation it is recommended the applicant work with the Board of Selectmen (BOS) to incorporate this into a revised MOU;