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Lexington Housing Partnership Meeting Minutes for October 30, 2008 Attendees: Bob Bicknell, Art Katz, Florence Baturin, Harriet Cohen, Ken Kreutziger, Melinda Walker, Winifred McGowan, Betsey Weiss, Tom Harden, Chris Kluchman. Bob Bicknell chaired the meeting; Harriet Cohen took the minutes. The meeting was called to order at 7:21 pm. 1. Open Meeting The September minutes were approved unanimously. 2. Sub-Committee Reports Report of the Chair – Mr. Bicknell Appendix A: Report of the Chair See for information the following: Consortium of Local Towns Proposal to MHP Lexington Site Analysis League of Women’s Voters Housing Panel Discussion of Affordable Homeownership vs. Renting Bank Proposals for funds to the Lexington Housing Foundation Mr. Bicknell asked for assistance with the Consortium of Local Towns Proposal. Mr. Harden and Mr.Kreutziger volunteered to participate. Report from Lexington Housing Foundation – Mr. Bicknell and Ms. Baturin Ms. Baturin will report next month. Ms. Walker and Ms. Weiss volunteered to help moving the Lexington Site Analysis forward. Report of the Lincoln Institute Lecture on Inclusionary Zoning – Mr. Katz The Lincoln Institute is associated with both Harvard and MIT. It focuses on land use. There were presentations by two professors, one from San Diego State and the other from the Brookings Institute/Rutgers University. They spoke about the European approach to inclusionary housing. In Europe, inclusionary housing is driven top-down from the country government. Unfortunately, it is difficult to see how to translate the European approach into one that will be effective at a town level. 3. Discussion of Survey and Define Report A subset of the Lexington Housing Partnership (“the Partnership”) has been meeting with Ms. Sunnarborg. They suggested changes have gone into what is hoped to be the final version of the report, pending final approval from the Partnership and other parties to the document. The next step is a review of the Statement of Objectives. The target date for delivery of the Statement of Objectives is December 2, 2008. The eventual goal is submission to the Community Preservation Committee for funding, but the submission will not be made until October 2009.