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Home My WebLink About2018-09-20-GCC-min Greenways Corridor Committee September 20, 2018 Ellen Stone Room, Cary Hall Lexington, Massachusetts Members Present: Mal Crawford, Alex Dohan, Peggy Enders, Eileen Entin, Don Grant, Bob Hausslein, Susan Kenyon, Keith Ohmart, Mike Tabaczynski Other Attendees: Charles Hornig, Planning Board liaison Votes: Minutes of July 24, 2018, meeting: Approved Letter to Planning Board re Belmont Country Club property: Approved Reports/Updates: • The Planning Board has had a couple of hearings on the request by a developer to rezone a parcel of land in Lexington that is owned by the Belmont Country Club. The rezoning would allow construction of a senior housing complex. GCC has requested funds for trail creation and maintenance, should the rezoning and development occur. The funding request is to have a contractor build the trail, not GCC and/or Stewards. This rezoning item will be on the Nov 13 Special Town Meeting warrant. Keith and Mike will try to meet with Carol Kowalski to keep the GCC in the loop, and will cc Michelle Ciccolo as our Select Board liaison. • A Route H walk is scheduled for Tuesday, but Susan can't be there. Bob will lead the walk. • The Summer Street entrance to Whipple Hill is currently closed for bridge replacement. Alex will check on when it is supposed to reopen. • The Bikeway 25th Anniversary celebration is Sept 29. Mike and Laurel Carpenter are both leading rides. Keith will be at a table. Peggy will send the waiver template so Keith can have that at the table for ride participants to sign. • Again, would be nice to have some volunteers (Friends of ACROSS?) to help with trail maintenance and other projects. • Bob demo-ed a new brochure holder that will be simpler to install and will hopefully keep the rain out better than the old ones. He has 3 to try out. • We have an opportunity to put the ACROSS brochure into copies of the Town Trail Guide. Somebody needs to do the stuffing, but it would be a nice way to get the brochure out. • Eileen and Bob signed Route J, so that is ready to go. • Bob is mostly ready with the QR code, but we want to confirm that the code will continue to work as the map gets updated on the Town website. Mike will work on the update to get Route J uploaded. • Eileen will be leading walk on Route J on October 14. • Mal has been researching the Town right-of-way between #41 and #43 Peacock Farm Road. It appears that it may have been held out of the Peacock Farm development plan when the Town acquired Sutherland Woods, around 1959, originally for a school building (that was never built). Carol Kowalski is looking into funds for a survey to determine the exact bounda- ries. There does not appear to be an extant deed for this parcel, known as Parcel A. • Clarke School area signs - the posts put in by the Town are at the "wrong" bridge. Discussion about whether to move the trail behind Clarke to an area that grows in less quickly. The Con- servation crew got behind this summer and the trail is overgrown. • Mal has been working on the NOI for the trail at Bridge School. Now that the dam project at the Old Res is essentially finished, we can go forward. He has the narrative of the project, and the technical details of the bridge engineering, but still needs some maps and aerial im- ages. Some small trees may need to be removed for the project, but it will improve the area, making one formal trail and eliminating several small trails. The chosen route leverages high ground areas and moves the trail away from muddy areas. It will be a Scout project. • A trail brushing crew from AMC will come, with Mal's guidance, to work on Route H. They will start at Bridge School and do as much as they can in a day's work. • Annual Report - will discuss at October meeting. Current Business: • None New Business: • Accessible Trail - the Parker Meadow project for building an ADA trail still seems stalled. Mi- chael Martignetti reached out to Keith. Perhaps we can get the Commission on Disability in- volved. Unclear what is holding up the project • Senator Cindy Friedman got $1 million into the Environmental Bond Bill for a trail from LHS to the Community Center. Keith has asked for an appointment to discuss the project. Pending Items: • Concord Ave land management plan (Alex) • Update from Proposed Routes task force (Keith) Next Meeting: October 11, 2018, 4:30-6:OOpm, Ellen Stone Room Future meeting dates: Nov 15, Dec 20 Respectfully Submitted by Alexandra Dohan, Secretary