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Home My WebLink About1991-10-08-DAC-min.pdf 1H flWI Design Advisory Committee Meeting Notes NOV - 81991 Date: 8 October 1991 SELECTMEN fk Location: Town Office Building - Attending: Rick Bechtel, Kerry Brandin, Tom Coffman, Jack Eddison, John Frey, Barbara Hulsizer, Roger Kallstrom, Peg Read, John Vinton, Betsy Whitman 1. Approval of Meeting Minutes: Meeting minutes of June 11 and September 10 were adopted as submitted 2. DAC Nominations: Walter Pierce will retire as an active member due to continuing time conflicts, but will serve on special projects and wishes to remain on the mailing list. Joining as members will be Peg Read and Stephan Hurley 3. Benches: The Giroux Building frontage continues to be of interest to donors. Steve Hurley has requests for four locations on that block. The DAC expanded the bench proposal from two to four benches in Giroux block having reviewed the situation since last time and believing that there is sufficient room for four The DAC will coordinate other locations as well with Steve Hurley and present to the HDC. Peg Read will expedite between the LCC and DAC. Jack Eddison will talk to Bob Hilton regarding his concern with a bench at the Library bus stop. The DAC would like to propose this also as a new location. 4. Board of Appeals actions/comments: Sherwin Williams has withdrawn their wall sign proposal and will resize within guidelines. Street sign was approved but at a smaller size more in scale with the street. Sherwin Williams has responded to abuttors' concerns with light spillage from the proposed area lighting. 5. East Lexington. Roger Kallstrom reported on progress with site planning improvements discussions with the building owner of the block from the New Asia restaurant to the Alton Pharmacy Roger has met with the owner and has also met with John Crowe who is conducting a parallel effort with Berman's Liquors. The first meeting was positive. Mr Sun indicated interest. Funding for improvements will be an issue. Jack Eddison indicated that the Town is interested in providing "seed money" as a catalyst to improvement, but cannot play a major funding role. Roger suggested and the committee concurred that a meeting between Mr Sun and Mr Berman and the designers would be beneficial. Base maps for the moment will be based upon the town's 100 scale plan blown up to 40th scale. The committee believed that this will be sufficient for concept discussions. Jack Eddison will check with Rick White as to whether the town engineers can do on site measurements in order to provide a more accurate base map. 6. Utility Boxes: Jack Eddison offered a plan for discussion showing locations for new above grade utility stations that are requested by the telephone company They are needed as part of a town wide re-wiring to incorporate a new network technology that the phone company will be KK installing system wide. Each station will be 5 feet wide by 5 feet high by 18 inches deep mounted an a slab on grade. They are said to produce no noise. The telephone company is willing to landscape. The Selectmen have been asked for approval of initial locations along Waltham Street east of the intersection with Marrett Road. The DAC indicated interest in reviewing proposed locations. Proper installation and maintenance was cited as critical. The DAC also recommends that underground locations be considered wherever possible. 7 Monuments: work on visitor information signs on the green is ongoing. Jack Eddison reported that wayside signs such as those found on national park service sites are considered a promising starting point. Must be sited so as not to create clutter on the green. Consider placing signs on the Tavern side only S. Tree Guidelines: Barbara Hulsizer noted that the guidlines have been submitted to Marion Snow for submittal to the HDC. Barbara will request at Jack Eddison's suggestion that the guidelines be placed on the agenda for the next HDC meeting so that she may present them to the HDC for review and discussion. 9 Depot Square: According to Steve Hurley, Depot Square is likely to be the LCC's next focus after the present bench project is completed. Don Olson has been out of town a great deal. John Frey will coordinate with Don and Steve Hurley Perhaps Steve can assist by serving as an expediter An overall comprehensive plan is needed in order to place the detailed Lexpress bench project within perspective. Next Meeting: November 12th, Room 111 Respectfully submitted, John Vinton