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PLANNING BOARD MINUTES
MEETING OF MAY 91 1983
The meeting of the Lexington Planning Board, held in Room G-15, Town Offices, was
called to order at 7:10 p.m. by the Chairman, Mrs. Smith, with members Flemings,
Nichols, Sorensen, Uhrig and Planning Director Bowyer present.
93. APPLICATIONS TO THE BOARD OF APPEALS
124 Spring Street, Beal Company, SPS: Mr. Bowyer reported that after consultation
with the Chairman, it was considered desirable to have two reports on the Beal
development. One would be an issues paper addressing the larger development trends
in the South Lexington CR districts. These very important issues would be diffi-
cult to present within the format of the SPS report. The other report would be
the regular SPS report.
The Board reviewed a partially completed draft of the SPS report. After discussion
it was agreed to include a recommendation that there be a buffer strip of 100 feet
adjacent to the RO district zoning line extending down to the area where the sur-
face parking and the garage would be located. That buffer strip would be main-
tained in a natural state.
It was also agreed to recommend that the number of parking spaces be 700, which
corresponds to the ratio of 3.5 parking spaces/1000 feet of gross floor area which
the Board uses for similar office buildings. The number of compact parking spaces
should be investigated. If possible, more compact spaces located in the garage
might result in few, if any, parking spaces being required on the surface.
There was discussion about limiting the use of the entrance -exit drive on Spring
Street so that it would not be used for major volumes of traffic during the peak
hours. Mr. Sorensen commented on the difficulties of enforcing special conditions
once included in a special permit.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:01 p.m. �;�
udith J. U ig, Clerk