 the Monday, April 25, 2016 meeting of the Arlington Redevelopment Board being recorded by ACMI. First up on our agenda this evening is a reconsideration of board recommendations to the town meeting on Artemis at 8 through 10. And I ask for this to be put on the agenda this evening following the meeting in front of town meeting members on April 12, April 14. There's a sense following that meeting that articles 8 through 10, which are the residential zoning bylaw amendments, are not ready for prime time. They're not quite what we're looking to do at this time. So what I'd like to do is open up a discussion heading forward with a potential change in our recommended vote to town meeting this evening. I do wish that this would happen sooner, fortunately with the time being what it is. We were not able to have this discussion before and now. So Mike, I'll begin with you on any comments on this. Sure. I did see where you added it to the agenda. And then I also attended the Master Plan implementation committee's meeting as well, where it got brought up as well. And then, once again, I was at the precinct meeting for 8, 10, and 12 yesterday. And that, plus the forum, plus our public hearing, I was happy that you put it on the agenda because I started to rethink it myself. And to me, I think one of the important parts of it is I think everything's kind of gotten glommed together a little bit. And we're trying for some very specific changes to help with massing. And I think there's been a little bit of confusion, which I think has probably heard on the residential side. Beyond that, I'm concerned that we'll lose focus on 6 and 7 on its use if 8 and 10 are pretty much of the focus, et cetera. So I'm happy you put it on there. I guess in my reconsideration, I do think there were some valid questions asked about the 4-6, down to 3-6, as far as how many houses would be impacted by such a change. On a couple of the others, I'm a little less concerned about, but that one, definitely concerned me. And then I think the other thing that, as we kind of went through that, I realized also if we grandfathered, the perk on the inspectional services is just something that we need to try to really understand what that would look like. And I don't feel comfortable that we have a sense for either how many people would be affected or what the workload would look like. And I think that maybe we need to kind of put pencils to paper and try to figure some of those things out before going forward. So happy you put it on there. And I think that in my own mind, that's the way I'm leading right now. I do concur with both of you guys as far as maybe reconsidering and delaying this action to give a little further more feedback from the residents. I attended the precinct meetings 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7 in the town meeting. It seems to be quite a bit of confusion. And a lot of quotes being put out right now, some being path troops, some being scheme going the way that I feel like right now we may be rushing this a little bit. I think if we would take a little more time and reconsider this a little bit more and see what the true impacts are to everybody. So everybody feels that we look at all the impacts. I think that would be also a good thing to not rush into this. And I think any time you put a piece of legislation out there, on any level, it should be clear, concise, and easily understandable as much as it possibly can be. And I think despite very good efforts on the part of this board and the part of the implementation already, on the part of staff, all of them worked together over several months to get this, we have not accomplished that goal. And I feel comfortable taking that to town meeting in its current state. We began this process last year after town meeting began, and the master plan was adopted in trying to implement certain recommendations within the master plan. And one of the main quotes from the master plan keeps coming back is preserving Arlington's existing neighborhoods. This was an attempt at reaching that goal. My recommendation tonight doesn't change the fact that I think that that's an important goal and I think it's something to work toward. But I think it needs to be done with a different approach and perhaps some different results. And we need to make sure that we have the time and the understanding to be able to present something that really works in town meeting next year. Yeah, I think I just want to reiterate, I think that's a really good point with respect to the master plan itself. It should be noted that this was in response to something about preservation of the neighborhoods that we need to do something about. And it's a little bit rough because the implementation committee was kind of put in place a little bit late and everything else. I think that I'd ask us as a board to get on top of this immediately after we do this. And I think not for the warrant or anything else, but to make this a focus of ours over the course of the next year, is in respect to the preservation of the neighborhoods and some of the massing of folks are seeing it. And any interested party, whether it's from the real estate community, builders, interested citizens, is welcome to participate in a future discussion of this. We welcome it, we ask for it, so that we can come to town meeting in 2017 with something that everyone feels comfortable with and feels good about. So with that, I think I would ask the board to ask for a motion. I'll move that the board amended restate its recommended vote on article 8 to no action. I'll second that. All in favor? Aye. I move that the board approve the amendment and restatement of its recommended vote for article 9 to no action. I'll second that. All in favor? Aye. I move to approve the amendment and restatement of the redevelopment boards. Recommended vote for article 10 to no action. I'll second that. All in favor? Aye. Thank you. Okay. Moving on to other business this evening. Yeah, I mean do you want to discuss six and seven? There's also the package from six of these articles. Yes. Yep. We've been handed some amendments. Being proposed before town meeting this evening, we're going to tackle these. Yeah, I haven't had a chance to take a look at them just to be clear. So I don't know whether I'm going to be in a position or not. Great. This is architectural stress. Of course, these were all distributed to town meeting members. Yeah. I mean no discussion is necessarily needed. Yeah. I don't like to consider these. My head definitely isn't in the game as far as where this is going to go. That's just my one view. So article six does have one matter that is an administrative issue that does need to be mentioned and addressed, which is in, it's in 0.3 on the first page. Article six amendment B1 by mistyped in the report. That's a clerical error. Yes. I'm sorry, where was that? It's on technically page two in this table. B1 is a typo. Therefore, a clerical matter. The row B1. Yep. The first one then? The first. Yep. It's in, it was incorrectly typed. Like that one. Yes. So if you were in the package, that's on the table. That might be easier. Yeah. But this is theirs. What does that affect ours? Yeah. Ours was incorrectly typed. So this is actually what we intended. It was 5,500. Not 2,500. That's in the report. I've got the report. It's the, I think that's right. Oh, I see. It's a blank. It's a blank. It's a blank and it needs to be, okay. Yep, yep. It's minor, but it's clerical and it should be noted. It is not. It's a minimum square football. Not a major deal, but. Yep. Yep, yep. That's fine. Something to be aware of. Yep. Absolutely. And that, we're not changing the bylaw as it is. No, we are not. We haven't changed anything in the zoning bylaw. The zoning bylaw is accurate on the town's website. It's a clerical error. Okay. Well, no, hold on. You do need to mention that to the moderator. Yeah, I will. And the moderator is there. Okay, good. And our legal counsel is there. Good. I just, no, no, no. That's fine. I just, when someone just said another bylaw. The bylaw on the website is right. Got you. It's not changing. That's just what's been presented. Okay. Got you. Clerical error. It's taking out of context. I can't really make sense of the deal. We'll pull out of it. The moderator is aware of it. The town council is aware of it. No, not the 5,000. I'm talking about. Oh. The other. One and two. It's kind of hard for me to. Okay. Here it is. I will say that I personally am comfortable with article six as it's been put forth to town meeting. I think it accomplishes an important goal, important goal in the master plan, important goal of this board and master plan implementation committee. It's important to note that all mixed use will be kept under special permit review by the province of development board to the specific intent that we have some level of control of what is built and what the intended uses are of any new projects. Beginning now and going forward to create a set of guidelines for future projects that become before the board under special permit. I would not endorse any amendments to article six. I decided to point out any clarification. I've grown too excited. Most likely right. And we'll serve and listen to it along the way. I mean, I'm a town meeting member so I'm good to figure it out as I go, I guess. But I have no need to recommend it. I guess the only other question would be, is it any of the other amendments? Change any of your previous votes? Well, I think this is like hard. Right? Because we had the proponents speak before and I think that they were somewhat materially different, which I'm kind of surprised because the warrant itself had language for each of these that's now changed. So I'm kind of surprised they're in school. But no, I mean, I don't think I have any questions. Want to change anything? I can't agree. Can you? No. Sorry, silly question. Maybe this is for later. But other business. Just next week, I'm not going to be here. I have to travel on. Andy should be here. Okay. We'll decide later in the week whether we can make history. Right. Exactly. If Andy's not here. We'll just be in town meeting. So I apologize for that. But I just got out of town on Monday. We'll circle back with Andy and confirm. Okay. Yeah, he is. Monday is the public hearing. Oh, Monday is the public hearing. I think Andy will be back. I thought he was just away this week. He's away this week. Does that work? No, I'm sure. That's the public hearing that we had to postpone because of the snow. No, I'm sorry. We can do it two ways. We can hold the meeting. And ask them. Because it's going to be unanimous. Okay. We'll have to continue. We'll have to be unanimous. Or we can have them present. You can watch the video. We can do it on the next. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Good. Any other business we discussed this evening? In that case, we'll return to the minutes from the 21st meeting. I move to approve the minutes. I'll second. All in favor. All right. And I guess this was more other business but presentation-wise. Yes. All set. Yeah. Okay. And what I will do is when I submit our report, entering article three, article two, we submit reports. Two or three. I will advise, tell me any of our decisions. Okay. I'm very accept. Articles six and seven as is. And to advise them of our vote tonight to be. Recommend no action on articles eight and nine. Six and seven and 11 through 17 if you put on the table. Yep. Well, no, 11th, they're all, until someone gives a 17. When you submit the report. Okay. Sorry. When you submit the report. Yeah. In the air, you're going to move to bring, put on the table, six and seven, and then 11 through 17. There are changes to 11 through 17 as we, you just discussed, but that's what you'd be putting on the table. And then you would be talking about, with respect to eight through 10, you would be talking about what you just decided at this meeting. Sorry, but 11 through 17. They came from, they're still in, as part of your report to town meeting. Okay. I see what you're saying. You're saying as far as our report goes, we're doing six and seven, 11. Got it. Okay. I'm sorry. I thought you were, I got it. Okay. But you're not putting, got it. Yep. That makes sense. Sorry. I wasn't following along that for a second. Yes. On the table for discussion. Yep. Got it. So report to article three. Article two is state of the town. That's right. And that starts at eight. Yes. Okay. I'll move to adjourn. Yeah. I'm sorry. Okay. I'll move to adjourn. Second. Oh, yeah. Actually, I'll move to recess. To probably, right? I'll move to recess and reconvene. Thank you. Bye. Bye.