 going to call to order the meeting of the Arlington Redevelopment Board on April 28, 2014. Very short agenda tonight as we just hit a couple of things and then head over to the first session of town meeting. The first thing is the R presentation of the Zoning By-law Amendment warrant article for town meeting. So Carol had forwarded, I think, the PowerPoint or PDF of the PowerPoint. And I've kind of annotated it for my own benefit as I present tonight. But did anyone have anything that they wanted particularly stressed or emphasized or what have you? I'd like to just inform the board that Molly Flukiger is a town meeting member. And I just want you to be aware, she is probably a small handful of people who we were sure would take a very deep interest in this. She didn't come to the hearing. We were kind of surprised. I heard that she was going to some of the precinct meetings and saying that she had questions about the process by which this was created. So I called and I said, I wanted to give you an opportunity to hear how we arrived at this and so on and so forth. Very cordial. But she was very suspicious of the working group. And so at one point, we had a good conversation going on. At one point I said, why don't you have faith in us? Yeah, yeah, fair enough. And she said, well, I think it's because it came down to she felt that the Board of Health's regulations in some respects like for tobacco have gone farther than what the state requires or what the feds require. Board of Health has the option to go stronger. So she was afraid there would be a move to be too restrictive. So I continued the conversation to try to tell her that I had faith in the process and that I thought that it was worth giving it a chance and that it was really done and good faith to make sure that the way Ireland's and voted was represented in the way we wanted it to be out in the open in our three commercial districts. So I wanted you to be aware. She thought at the end of the conversation that she wouldn't get up to speak about it because she acknowledged she hadn't been involved in the process enough to be knowledgeable. And I said, well, feel free to speak, but I want you to feel free to ask me any questions ahead of time too. So I think it ended quite well. I just want you to be aware of that conversation. I think it went well. I don't know how Lawrence McKinney will proceed, but those are the two individuals who, and I suppose LC is going to feel very strongly against it. So if past is prologue, I can't say how. And Lawrence McKinney? Yeah. Lawrence McKinney is very knowledgeable about medical marijuana. He worked for years on research in medical marijuana. And he's a very ardent proponent of medical marijuana for medicinal purposes. So when you're trying to think about being prepared, I think that that's the known landscape. I'm sure that there are some 10 meeting members who are gonna feel or express themselves on both sides. Yeah, and I think from that perspective, I mean, because I was part of it, but I have faith in the process as well. I think also as, I mean, and when we do have some extra slides here to go through a couple of other areas that certainly were considered. You know, it's too bad we weren't, I probably should have included a copy of the spaghetti that is our zoning. And I didn't, but at the same time, I think that by doing kind of the overlays, you get a good sense for, you know, when we're talking about industrial, when we're talking about B4, you know, those types of things. We can kind of at least talk to it. So, and if someone brings it up, then we can certainly bring those slides up. So is the thought so. Mike, when somebody asked what are the state regulations which we know are very complete and they cover what it is, how it should be run, correct signage, yeah. Well, the state regulations, yeah. They actually cover signage and advertising. Yeah, yeah, that's why we didn't touch on signage. They can be how they operate, their nonprofit. I don't know about big. I don't think it goes to size because it can be grown. There are health regulations in there. There are, there are. You know what, but Christine Manjaro is gonna have to speak to those. Okay, that's all I wanted to know. There's somebody that can. Oh yeah, yeah. Because she's in the process of putting together Arlington's, which is taking all of those and localizing them. So, yeah, with respect to that. Questions on that issue. Yeah, I would definitely need to pass over to her. So, I mean, I feel pretty good about like the thought process and the zoning pieces. And in fact, one thing we didn't talk about in here was signage, but if that does come up, obviously we considered it. And we actually thought that the state regs were better than us trying to do our own thing and, you know, being potentially subject to some spot zoning claims, I think is what we thought of with respect to that particular signage, if you might recall, when we had that debate as well, that we thought we were better off. You do want to opt to just touch on that as opposed to script when you get to the end of the presentation. You think actually get to it? I'm excited rather than, well, I would play right here, but I don't think so. Don't break it up. Because I think there's gonna be such a swirl of understanding. Yeah. Before we had to worry about signage. Yeah, I think if it comes up, I think it's a good answer to say, look, we discussed signage. There are state regs with respect to signage. Stringent state regs. Stringent state regs with respect to what can and can't be in state signage, how big it can be and the like. And we were actually concerned that if we did something, we might be actually expanding the ability to sign. Not only that, but we'd be subject to some spot zoning claims versus the state being able to regulate from a health perspective. Yeah, I think the focus has to be on this as a zoning article. Zoning article. Exactly. Not that things happen in a vacuum and it's always zoning issues get considered when a zoning article is in front of a town meeting or before us. But ultimately that's what our responsibility is is to try to figure out if something is going to be in a loud use or a special permit use. What zoning districts can it go into and what's the process for this board granting the special permit? That's right. Isn't that kind of your problem? And that's what this does. And I think it's very good. And I think this is a subject where people are going to have some strong opinions, but a lot of those opinions are going to be outside the context of zoning. Zoning, correct. Correct. So you have to let other people answer this. Yeah, and it's a good point to remind people this is a zoning article and we approached it from a zoning perspective. That's very important. I think there's also some, there may be some members who assume that by offering this warrant article we're trying to restrict it. You want to remind me, remember, this has to be done so that it can be allowed. Ooh, I don't think so. You can do it anywhere, but the Attorney General's office is going to be much, much, they'll be happier if municipalities are saying where it can go rather than not sticking in their heads in the sand and not telling the growers and the distributors where in town it's expected to be allowed. Yeah, but I think that if we had no article on this, then you'd have proponents coming forward and saying, well, you should treat us like a retailer or a pharmacy. Certainly. And I'm not even sure you would need to say any of it. Yeah, right. I think you could just go where you want to go. You want to go where a pharmacy's allowed, or maybe go where, you know, or maybe claim where it is. Yeah, Mike, you've got it all in here. So from my annotated, just to kind of put a finer point on it, I may as well just say it, I said, so why do we need to address Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers and zoning? Because zoning is the only way that we can affect where an MMTC will be placed in town. Without its specific inclusion in our zoning bylaw, MMTCs can apply for a state and local health permit with little restriction on where it may be cited. Therefore, we want to zone this use, is what I was going to say. Yeah, perfect. I think that's good. I wanted to ask you a little bit about the end of the presentation where you have the maps of the other districts. Are you thinking that those are just there if people ask? Well, why not be, okay. Yes, yeah, yeah. I got it was too confusing to kind of say all the things that were considered and, you know, remember, I've got seven minutes. Exactly, it'll go by fast. It'll go by fast. I mean, I plan on moving quickly, so I may have extra time, but I think that's a rat hole if you start saying what was considered and why you ended up. Now, I think it's a fine answer to a question, you know, and certainly to come up, so. When it's inevitable that someone is going to say, why didn't you put these in the industrial district? And don't forget how close the high school is to two industrial districts. That may not be evident to glance from the back of the hall at the map, but you wouldn't. I think the concern there too is from the perspective of foot traffic and accessibility as well as for, you know, public safety. Yeah, and that's in your text, the text of your slide, which is good, because they may not notice how close the borders of the two industrial districts are to the high school. Yes, yeah. And to the Minutemen bike path. Yep, yep, yep, yep. I think it's good you didn't put in the full zoning map because that's, talk about confusing. I know, it's just good. Overwhelming. What's that going to help with this issue, yeah? Yeah, your maps are very simple and straightforward. Yeah, that's, thank you to Carolyn. David Fields on our staff, and our gentleman. If it comes up, Mike, most of the gray is our residential, is the pale yellow, which is all residential. Okay, I remember. Anything that's not on the maps at the end of the presentation is most likely residential. Yeah, yep, exactly. Exactly, I think the only other one was like the B1 and the B2, which are the small, maybe it's a different person. Yeah, the neighborhood business, yeah. Two fields, and David. It is David Fields? Yeah. He's our GIS guy. He is part-time in planning and part-time in IT. You think that's an okay intro for the, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's very good. Okay. Sorry to have a side conversation. Okay, anything else on this? Okay. All right, hopefully we get to it and you get through it. Next is just minutes. Minutes from last meeting. It was a short meeting as well. Yeah. Did anyone have any time to introduce those minutes? I have no comments on them. I had a few clarifications, but if it was clear to everybody else, we could skip them, but I'll read them anyway. So the second second set, one, two, third, third like paragraph. It starts with the board made edits to the draft and then turned to Warren Article 22. I thought we could say Warren Article 22, the community preservation. Regarding the community preservation. Just to say what it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, regarding the community preservation. And then the next paragraph. Mr. Fitzsimmons shared with the board calculations he had estimated on how much the Arlington's registry fees totaled and that Arlington had not been able to benefit from. So for somebody that wasn't at that meeting, I thought that was a little bit vague. I thought maybe we should say Mr. Fitzsimmons shared with the board calculations he had estimated on how much, how much, oh, and how much because we had not enacted the CPA. How much money? Oh, to take off the thee. On how much Arlington's registry fees totaled and that Arlington, so put an end in there and that Arlington has not been able to benefit from this because we have not enacted the CPA. Okay, that's good. That works for me. I can give this to Carol if you want. Okay, good. And then the next line again. Mr. Kier added that the CPA also has to go before the voters instead of just saying it. Mm-hmm. I hope you can read it correctly. Maybe we can read it better. Maybe I should type it in because I couldn't even read it once I'm going to have to read it. I think it's fine. Okay, thanks. It's good. Move the approval of the minutes of April 17th, 2014. With edits. With edits. Five seconds. All in favor? Aye. And I think that's it. So I think now I'll entertain a motion to recess and reconvene over a town meeting after which we will adjourn. After town meeting, we will adjourn. Yes. So moved. Okay. Seconded. All in favor? Aye. Okay. Actually, we're reconvened because actually I did that wrong because we did post an agenda for the town meeting itself. I'll actually entertain a motion to adjourn this meeting. So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. Thank you. Thank you.