 Call to order the Arlington Redevelopment Board meeting of Monday, April 27, 2015. The agenda this evening, as we prepare for town meeting, we have discussion of town meeting article 46 presentation and discussing the zoning articles that are also on the town meeting mark. So, Carol, if you would pass out the slides. These are the slides as I think we're... Yeah, that was the last one. Yeah, we incorporated the changes from the last time the board reviewed them when the master plan advisory committee was here. And one thing in particular you recall, I believe it was what was then slide 12. This is now slide 4. We wanted to... It's not slide 4. We wanted to take the suggestion of trying to make the dates of some of the public engagement events and workshops. We could slide 10. I think it is, yeah. We wanted to try to make them more like graphic design elements rather than text. And we did try it with different fonts and having it a different contrast so that it's a little more in the background and more of a graphic element than text. But it just... Charlie Pulaski is the chair of the master plan advisory committee and Andrew and I thought it looked too sharply distinct from the rest of the slide. So, we reverted back to this. I intended to bring an example to show the board. I think this looks good. I mean, you've got down there over 140 public gatherings and you've just got a couple of them up there. A couple of key ones, but a couple of them are normal ones. I'll show a lot of the people who were involved. And I timed this out once. I don't know if you timed it out yourself out loud. It came in under seven minutes. So, that's good. Yeah, it does look like it should. The script is right there for... Now, this isn't going to come up tonight. We know that, so we've got time to get really comfortable with the text. That I'm working on, making changes here and there. So, this will come up last, obviously, unless they dramatically change the order of the warrant articles. And it's a Selections warrant article, but then, of course, you'll be at the podium. Charlie Colasquez and Carol Spenson and I will be in the front row. And we're pretty sure that Judy Barrett will be available if any technical questions come up. And I believe we have to ask a town meeting member... Do we have to ask a town meeting member to have the chair of the ARB do the presentation? No, I don't think so, but we should check with the moderator to see how he wants to handle it. But you shouldn't have to. Let's talk to John. I don't know exactly how he would want to handle that. You know, I mean, you can get on the list as an official anyway. I think so. Yeah, yeah. So, we'll just get on the list as first. Just tell them ahead of time. There were precinct meetings this weekend, and I understand that a question arose at one of the meetings whether a town meeting member can amend the plan. And the town moderator thought that if it came up, that he'd have to hear it. I'm pretty sure that Council has since then had conversations with town moderators explaining that what they could amend is the... Resolution. The resolution language. But you know, as it may, we do want to make sure that town meeting members understand that this can, this is a master plan that is clearly intended to have some updates. Master plans are typically updated every five years. So there is an opportunity. There will be opportunities. Through the same process though. Through the same process, we would have to... You've got that in here, don't you? That's excellent. I remember it from the last meeting. So, these come around. And it's hard to know what will come up. There's a master plan on every town meeting member's chair in the auditorium right now. Tonight? Wow. That's the full plan. Yeah, most of it. You can help it and print it. It was a big job, but we got a very good price. And in fact, we ran it out. We ran out of copies. We thought we had ordered sufficient quantity. They have extras for different committees. I think the implementation committee is going to need copies. But we're going to order some more. We also, when you get up... Let me back up. During the beginning of the meeting, when the moderator asks if there are reports, we're going to ask if Andrew can get up. I already talked to John about this. So that he can say, I like to master plan. It was provided to each town meeting member this evening. And it's relevant to the last article on war in article 46. Please take an opportunity to familiarize yourself with it. If you don't want a copy by the end of town meeting, there are boxes here tonight. And boxes... We intended to do this anyway before we ran out, just because we don't want people to recycle. Exactly. We're happy to get the copy back. We did the same thing with the town report. There will be a box at the back of the hall and two new redevelopment board tables as people are leaving. So that also makes the point that pick it up and read it and prepare yourself for the article when it comes up. So that's pretty much the master plan. With the zoning articles... Did I see you had a copy of the article? I have a... Yes. So I can describe that a little bit. The town meeting members received a substitute article via the town meeting of the list. And supposedly this is going to be put in as a substitute motion. I'm sorry. Okay. A substitute motion. Most likely did not either. When it comes up for our no action vote. So on article six, the building inspector and that whole thing. So I would expect... I don't know, Carol, what were you thinking on that? I mean, people probably want to hear why the board decided to go no action on that. I think that will... The board will be asked to comment briefly on that and I think it's just important to say what you concluded, which was that the solution is such a problem that it's already being done for the application process. And the board felt like it was already getting the information of the zoning review and compliance through the EDR process. Are you good with that now? Okay, good. Great. Yeah. So that should be coming up very quickly. So who is issuing the substitute? Well, for some reason, the moderator distributed a request from Mr. Loretty to distribute the substitute to the town meeting members. Did we read Aya Christopher Loretty? No, because he's not a town meeting member. So the list is only for submissions from town meeting members and people on committees and boards. So I questioned the town moderator and said, you know, this is what it's for, but the town moderator decided because he was the proponent of it that he should be able to put in the substitute motion, at least to the... He has found a town meeting member that's going to put it forth. I don't know who that town meeting member is, but I've been told that he has found someone to put it forth. So whoever that town meeting member is, we'll put their name there. Okay. So... I don't understand it, but... Yeah, well, only a town meeting member can... No, I don't understand this. Okay. Well, there's... Yeah, so... It's the exact same already? I think it's slightly different. I don't... Yeah, it reads slightly differently, but not... But it's the same. Not substantial. Okay. All right. This is just for the ZBA or the ARB. So any special permit that would go to the ZBA or the ARB has to be signed by the Inspector of Buildings. As soon as DeBurn will be there tonight. Yes. So I'm sure he will speak, and I'm not sure who will speak, whether the board will be asked to comment first. I don't know. I think you just... Usually on no comment, votes. No action. No action. Thank you. No action, votes. The board doesn't have presentations. There isn't. Yeah, well, because there cannot be comment unless the substitute is put forth. Right. So in this instance, I think the board would simply wait until someone asks the board for... Why did you vote no action? You might be asked what it would mean to you. So, which I think is probably the most practical thing to put forth, right? Right. That's the way I would answer it, I think. All you're doing is adding a layer onto what's already the action. What's already a very collegial process. Right. And then, to support that, I'd like Mr. Byrne Inspector to comment. And he's going to comment. I think he's prepared. Yeah. And on Article 7, the bulk of that is the general by-law changes that are the Board of Selectments, Bailey Wick. But for that one, because the board did vote, Andrew... I think the town moderator will turn directly to Andrew right away and it's simply that this warrant article, the zoning amendment, would create a category of signage that's currently not allowed. It would define it in the zoning by-law and say that it's not subject to zoning, but that it is governed by town by-law. It's that simple. I believe it's that simple. And then the bulk of this warrant article is really general by-law. We're selecting. Yeah, it's quite good there. And the type of signage is yard sales, temporary events. There's a third category, but just so that people understand generally what type of signage it... Oh, that's right. Are you going to speak to that, Andrew? Yeah. Yeah, he'll just give a general description of a zoning aspect and the category of signage that the by-law amendment will recognize and describe, because right now that type of sign isn't even contemplated in the by-law. So it will... And the reason for this, you might not need to go into this level of subtlety, but if something's not in the by-law, generally it's assumed to be prohibited. By naming it, creating it, defining it, it doesn't prohibit it. Provides for the allowance of it? Yes. And then the regulation will be done by a different... At least I was concluding that it actually will improve the clutter. I think so too, because there's a state of time that it's supposed to come down. It's recognized. Yes, I agree. I think it will. I think it will make people aware of it. Take your signs back down. It's definitely not going to be worse. No. All right. So I think that's it. You know what's for this? Yeah. I'll make them... Are we gonna... How are we doing it? This is tough without Bruce here. He's usually our parliamentarian, right? I think don't we stay in session as we go over there so that we can take a vote if need be? I posted two agendas. One for the meeting. Oh, okay, good. And one for town meetings. Perfect. I did it last year as well. Oh, I like it better. So we can actually adjourn this meeting. Yeah. By the way, you just remind me of something, though. For subsequent nights, if we get through zoning tonight... I'll be there. You'll be there because you're a town meeting member. I don't think Andrew or Andy need to be there. Except for the... I'm working on it. I agree. Yep. I don't think there's anything else we'd be asked to comment on. No. And we're not just glad we should get through these tonight. Okay. Just wanted to be sure of that. I'd like to be there for the master plan. Okay. Just give me heads up when you think it's gonna be there. Yeah, we'll commiserate on it and roll the dice. The fourth or the sixth, at this point, that's as close as we know, May fourth or May sixth. And Mike and I and John, the only think it's gonna be May sixth. I'd say the sixth or the eleventh. But you'll know better. Yeah. I'd say the sixth or the eleventh, that's all. Yeah. Because budgets usually take a... What are you saying? Yeah, I think the over-under. The over-under is sixth. That's right. I'll make a motion to adjourn. Second. Call. In favor. Aye. Okay.