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MEMORANDUM OF DESIGN ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING
10 October 1989
Present DAC - John Frey, Chair., John Vinton, Rick Betchel, Don Olson,
Betsy Whiteman, Albert Pinang, John Edison, Selectman,
Betty Flynn, SLCA
Correction of the 12 September 1989 Minutes
1. National Park - Name correction. "John" should be changed to
"Jack"
Minutes were then approved
* David Dixon's Draft Report
1. The Planning Board's comments were distributed and will be
l consolidated into general comments.
2. Jack recommended that Bob Ossman's concept sketch for the Minuteman
Monument Area be adopted into Dixon's report.
3. John reported that John and the snbcomnittee had consolidated all the
written comments into a list of general comments He will send these
general comments back to David Dixon along with all the individual
written comments as: back-np material. The d_scussion was then focus-
ed on the refinement of general comments which included. the entry
gateway at WaltAam Street, the loss of parking spaces due to land-
scaping, location of street furniture, highlighting the bikeway
crossing, the style and size of the newspaper stand, the Muzzy Street
Baybank parking, and the need for more sketches and diagrams etc.
The comments were also made page by page through Dixon's report.
* Minuteman's Misquote
Betsy asked whether DAC should respond to the misquote of her comment
about the Design Guideline draft in 28 September *Minutemen s
newspaper The general feeling of the Committee was not to respond.
* Sign By-Law
The Planning Board Chairperson, Martha Wood, would like to know if
DAC is interested in involving itself with the sign by-law. The
committee members expressed a definite interest Jack suggested that
we request more information and documents in order to r_ke revisions
and recommendations. It was suggested that this it should be
addressed in the next meeting with the enclosed existing by-law.
Design Advisory Committee
3 November 1989
Page Two
* Sign Review
The Board of Appeals sent the submission of "Wild and Wooly Sign" and
"Middlesex MA11 Sign on Store" to DAC for comments John Vinton and
1 both felt that the style and the size of letters on 'Middlesex Mall
Store Sign" is acceptable and that each store sign, set into a desig-
nated panel, is appropriate. However, the drawing for "Wild and
Wooly Sign" did not indicate the color material, or the method of
installation. John is going to find more information and make recom-
mendations to the Board of Appeals.
* Marrett Road Mobil Station
John brought in the site plan of the New Marrett Road Mobil Station
for comments. The members of the committee were generally pleased
that the new site plan shows the curb cut for entrance and exitway
being pushed away from the street corner and that new trees and
planting beds are being planned at the street corner. All these
features will greatly improve the existing conditions-
* The next DAC meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 14, 1989 at
8 00 p.m. in Room 111.