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Transportation Advisory Committee Town of Lexington, Massachusetts Draft minutes for the meeting of July 21, 2020. The meeting was held remotely pursuant to Governor Baker's executive order dated March 12, 2020 suspending certain provisions of G.L. c. 30A, section 20. The meeting began at roughly 6:30 pm. Committee members present: Sara Arnold, Sally Castleman, Elaine Dratch, Pamela Lyons, Hank Manz, Vinita Verma, Andra Bennett Liaisons present: Sudhir Jain, Council on Aging Others: Richard Canale (Lexington Planning Board), Sheila Page (Assistant Planning Director), Katherine Scotti (Planning Intern), Shefali Verma Transportation Manager: Susan Barrett There were no public comments. The Transportation Advisory Committee voted six to zero by roll call vote to approve the minutes of the meeting of July 1st and July 22nd,2020. Revising TDM Agreement Richard Canale described motivations for developing a process for infrastructure funding from building developments (a.k.a TDM). Transportation section of the town zoning bylaw requires developers to abide by certain rules; TDM policy allows flexibility on how that is implemented . The last TDM town policy was written in 1998. Updating the current Lexington policy has been one of the recommendations from the tri-town transit study recommendations. Policy around TDM needs better guidelines for enforcing (only commercial?/ certain size commercial). It also needs more zoning aspects - for example only Hartwell has a plan, as well as a revised process (fund allocation/withdrawals etc). Another focus of the TDM policy should also be better transparency/prescribing of TDM fund allocations, as those resources have not been prescribed a given purpose and they have ended up in various 'mitigation' funds (e.g. transportation demand management, traffic mitigation fund). They have decent balances but these are one-time funds but they would not be sufficient for general transportation community needs (commuter shuttles, bike safety etc).