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PLANNING BOARD MINUTES MEETING OF MARCH 28, 2006 A regular meeting of the Lexington Planning Board held in the Selectmen's Meeting Room, Town Office Building, was called to order at 7:30 p.m. by Chairman Manz with members Galaitsis, Hornig, Canale, Zurlo and planning staff McCall-Taylor, Schilt and Tap present. ************ ADMINISTRATION OF LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS ************* SUBDIVISION OF LAND 177 Grove Street Definitive Conventional Plan, Request for Extension: Staff informed the Board that the applicant, Rayvon Realty Trust, has requested an extension of 90 days, to August 14, 2006, for action on the conventional subdivision plan for 177 Grove Street, dated August 17, 2005. Mr. Hornig expressed his reservations about granting an extension as the applicant also has a cluster plan for 177 Grove Street in the permitting process, an unusual circumstance. It was pointed out that the applicant asked for more time to allow them to devise a cluster plan more acceptable to the abutters, with whom the developer is working. Should the cluster plan be approved the applicant would not need to proceed with the conventional subdivision application. On a motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to grant the ninety-day extension to the time to act on the 177 Grove Street conventional subdivision plan, to August 14, 2006 Mr. Canale remarked on Ms. Manz' article about the Lexington Center Charrette that the Belmont Citizens Forum published in its March issue. ************************ ARTICLES FOR 2006 TOWN MEETING ************************ PUBLIC HEARING Article 7, CD-7 to CD-13, Planned Commercial District, 727 Marrett Road, Starwood Hotels and Resorts: Ms. Manz opened the public hearing on the petition of Starwood Hotels and Resorts, Inc. to rezone the site of the Sheraton Hotel on Marrett Road. This second hearing was made necessary by Community Classifieds Newspaper's failure to publish the second legal notice for the hearing scheduled for March 1, which was held. Present for Starwood were Attorney John Farrington; Starwood Director of Real Estate Marketing Scott Thrun; architects John Fotiatis and Peter Brassard; civil engineer Robert Weidknecht; William Bunce, General Manager of the Sheraton; and traffic consultant Charles Kalauskas. Mr. Farrington characterized the application and outlined the proposal. The architect and engineer presented slides showing the buildings and site layout and how they respond to the comments and requests from town boards and committees. Board Comments and Questions Mr. Canale outlined what he saw as shortcomings of the Preliminary Site Development and Use Plan (PSDUP) and pointed out the missing information. Some items referred to in the PSDUP narrative do not appear elsewhere in the submittal. Mr. Farrington said he would correct that. Mr. Canale and Mr. Zurlo explored the visual impact of stair towers and asked for elevations showing the towers, as well as asking that the towers be minimized as much as possible. Mr. Weidknecht and Mr. Fotiatis said that they would be under 11 feet in height and agreed to that as a maximum. The stair tower will be much less than the allowed 20 feet. Mr. Fotiatis agreed to more clearly label the mechanicals and elevator towers on the elevation drawings.