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Special Permit Residential Development (SPRD) Ad-hoc Committee
Meeting Minutes of November 17, 2022
Special Permit Residential Development (SPRD) Ad-hoc Committee Members present for the
Public Meeting: Jill Hai, Chair; Scott Cooper, Joyce Murphy, Charles Hornig, Richard Perry, Betsey
Weiss. Wendy Manz, Heather Hartshorn
Lexington Staff present for the Public Meeting: Carol Kowalski, Assistant Town Manager for
Development; Lorraine Welch, Office Manager; Julie Moore, Zoning Administrator; Abigail
McCabe, Planning Director
Other attendees: David Treitsch
Ms. Hai conducted a roll call to ensure all the members of the SPRD ad-hoc committee and
members of staff present could hear and be heard.
Ms. Hai chaired the meeting and called the meeting to order at 8:02 am.
Discussion on Dimensional limits and GFA Calculations
The committee has decided it should look more like the OSRD, in terms of numbers. Ms. Hai,
along with a Lexington Contractor, Todd Cataldo ran the numbers at 5X and it works out. Ms.
Moore; Zoning Administrator is here to also show the Committee what the scenarios would look
like with an Excel spreadsheet.
Mr. Cooper asks if they are getting rid of the idea of 6X. Ms. Jill Hai reiterates that 5X would be
the best scenario at this point.
Mr. Hornig wants the committee to understand that this number isn’t going to be written in the
by-law and that this number just allows us to understand the different scenarios. The main goal
is to develop the percentage based off the districts.
Ms. Kowalski would like to confirm if the committee would like to make an Open Space
requirement. The committee agrees this needs to look different from OSRD. Mr. Hornig said
there should not be a requirement for common open space. It has been confirmed there will be
no open space requirement.
Ms. Manz is concerned over the fact that if there is no open space requirement, it will be less
attractive to the community.
Ms. Murphy points out that if there is no common space, the ability for each owner to have
their own space increases, and that would be an attractive quality.
It was decided that the Committee needs to run more numbers and need to be ready by the end
of December. Ms. Murphy, Mr. Hornig and Mr. Perry have decided to help. Ms. Moore will help
guide them. They will need to check percentages and come up with a good one. What will the
site coverage limits be and impervious site coverage limits be?
Review Slide Deck with Comments from the Board
Ms. Kowalski reviewed slides. Committee members discussed edits regarding wording and
definitions on the slides.
Ms. Murphy wants to make sure there is a distinction of gross floor area vs. living area on the
slides.
Mr. Treitsch lets us know that the more numbers you put in the slides, the more confused
people will be.
Mr. Cooper said there needs to be a way to convey what those numbers look like.
Next meeting scheduled for December 1, 2022.
Adjourn
Ms. Hai moved that the SPRD committee adjourn the meeting of November 17, 2022. Mr.
Cooper seconded the motion. The SPRD Committee voted in favor of the motion 5-0-0 (Roll
Call Cooper- yes, Weiss-yes, Hornig- yes, Manz- yes, Perry- yes, Hai- yes). MOTION PASSED
UNANIMOUSLY.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:40 am.
List of documents:
Power Point Slides
Ms. Moore’s Excel spreadsheet