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Town of Lexington Noise Advisory Committee(NAC) Minutes of Meeting February 25,2021 A meeting of the Noise Advisory Committee ("NAC')was held via Zoom videoconference on Thursday February 25, 2021 at 5:00 PM.A quorum of four members was present. NAC Members Present: Dan Koretz (Chair),Vicki Blier, Nick Afshartous, Stewart Smith Absent: April Wang (with regrets due to technical issues) Others Present: Cindy Arens (Sustainable Lexington),Jess Jenkins (Resident) Opening Remarks 1. Discussion of issues related to Complaints Received by the Committee in Advance of the Town Meeting. Dan updated the Committee on recent complaints received from several landscapers serving the Lexington Community.The complaints were raised to members of the Select Board including Suzie Barry and Joe Pato.The Chair also indicated that he had been in communication with Mr. Chris Stratford (a local landscaper)who indicated that he was attempting to consolidate support from a larger group of local landscapers in opposition to the proposed landscaping regulation. The general theme of the complaints was that landscapers had not been appropriately engaged in advance of the Town Meeting regarding the proposed regulation. Mr. Stratford, in particular, requested further time to coordinate a response among landscapers and asked that the regulation be indefinitely postponed until landscapers had sufficient time to more fully participate in the process. After discussing the complaints and the process at length and having weighed the comments received from members of the Select Board concerning the process to date,the Committee agreed that further time would be required to engage in substantive discussions with landscapers who would be impacted by the proposed regulation. MOTION Accordingly,the Chair moved,via roll call vote,to recommend to the Select Board that the proposed landscape regulation as presently constituted, be indefinitely postponed until the Fall 2021 Town Meeting. The Motion was carried unanimously.