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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:34:41 PDT
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Minutes of Managing Growth Committee Meeting
March 16, 2000, 7:00-9:00 pm, Police Station
Members Present:
Donna Rossi
Karl Kastorf
Marianne Lazarus
Tiffany Papadonis
Josh Murray
Markus Pinney
John Andrews
Suzanne Caton
Larry Belvin
Ione Caring
Maryann McCall-Taylor
Tom Harden
Ed Vail
John Frey
Members Absent:
Gary Fallick
Mike Hanauer
Karen Longeteif
Gerard Moloney
Lee Sinai
Distributed Information:
Due to the commitment of her new job, Suzanne Caton is resigning as
chairperson of the managing growth committee. If you would like to accept
the responsibility of chairperson please call Suzanne. A new chair must be
appointed by the next meeting, March 30, 2000.
OUTREACH ACTIVITY:
The Transportation Committee is holding their Outreach Activity on April 13.
We will have our own separate outreach activity. Larry Belvin and. John
Andrews will attend the Transportation group's Outreach Activity.
Ideas of what our own outreach activity should be are as follows:
Marianne Lazarus suggested we go to smaller groups within the community and
explain what we, as the managing growth committee, are doing. she also
suggested that we write a letter to the Minuteman about our committee.
Suzanne Caton suggested a booth be displayed in the center during Patriot's
Day.
John Andrews notes that we should have feedback and reactions as a part of
our Outreach Project to get the views of the community.
Markus Pinney suggested that we write and article in the Minuteman which
not only explains the committee, but also our goals. This article would also
ask for feedback on these goals.
Ione suggested that we have a hard copy in the library for the people to
ead and respond to.
overview of suggestions:
Minuteman Article
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Web Page on Lexington Home page
Hard Copy of a questionnaire available at Cary Memorial
Library
Document at Town Meeting
Document at Senior Center
Document at Town Offices
Hold a public meeting
Marianne Lazarus will ask the Minuteman if we can write an article and have
them publish it- perhaps treat it as a guest column.
Markus Pinney will talk to Lexington offices about posting a document/
questionnaire on the Lexington Home page.
Ione Garing will ask the library, town meeting, senior center, and town
offices if we can leave an article at each of these locations.
Marianne will ask the steering committee if we have the money to pay for
this.
Questions were brought up by Tom asking if a document is really the best
way to communicate our groups efforts.
John wonders how we should go about collecting the feedback we intend to
get from the public.
The 2 proposals for our outreach activity have been narrowed down to:
a public meeting
a document/ questionnaire
Both options would address our goals as they pertain to managing growth for
the year 2020, and request specific feedback (agreeing or disagreeing) from
the community.
When put to a vote, 4 people were in favor of a public meeting and 8 were
in favor of a distribution of a document/ questionnaire.
The managing growth committee will work towards writing, developing, and
distributing a document/ questionnaire as our Outreach Activity
VISION STATEMENT:
Ed Vail felt that something should be added to the vision statement in
reference to protecting our athletic facilities.
Suzanne Caton discussed the possibility of adding a statement to maintain
the obvious neighborhoods presently existing in Lexington.
Ione Oaring suggest that we change the word "wild" to "natural" in the
first paragraph.
Limit and direct growth was added to the second paragraph.
Tom Harden suggested that we add a statement about collaborating with
neighboring communities in the region, not just isolating Lexington.
the word "town" will be lowercase in the final draft of the vision.
The following is our tentative definition of mansionization:
"Mansionization is defined as a reconstruction of an existing
house
grossly out of proportion in context of the surrounding neighborhood and
size of lot."
We should add a statement about the need for zoning laws due to the loss
of open space and mansionization.
We need to revisit the idea of a coherent neighborhood during our next
meeting.
We should include an introduction at the beginning of the vision stating
that we are writing it from the perspective of a person in the year 2020.
Time, date, and location of next meeting scheduled:
The next meeting will be on March 30, 2000 @ 7:00 pm in room 111 at the
Dwn Hall.
The meeting for 4/20 has been rescheduled to 4/18.
The meetings on 4/6 and 5/4 will both be held in room 111 at town hall.
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