WARRANT ARTICLES FOR 2005 SPECIAL TOWN MEETING

ARTICLE 1 REPORTS OF TOWN BOARDS, OFFICERS, COMMITTEES

To receive the reports of any Board or Town Officer or of any Committee of the Town.
(Inserted by the Board of Selectmen)

ARTICLE 2 ZONING BYLAW, AMEND CB TO CD, 1720 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE

To see if the Town will vote to amend the Code of the Town of Lexington, Zoning By-Law sections and the Zoning Map of the Town of Lexington, by changing the zoning district designation of that property commonly known as 1720 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA, and more specifically described in the metes and bounds legal description shown in Exhibit A, on file with the Board of Selectmen and Town Clerk and incorporated herein, from the current CB, Central Business District to a CD-Planned Commercial District to allow construction of a building(s) for the purposes of multi-family housing and commercial retail space, and to take any other action or to act in any other manner relative thereto.
(Submitted by 1720 Massachusetts Avenue, LLC, property owner)

DESCRIPTION: The Preliminary Site Development and Use Plan (PSDUP) for the CD-Planned Commercial District shall be a plan dated September 23, 2005, revised October 2005 filed with the Planning Board and the Town Clerk as required by and in accordance with the requirements of the Zoning By-Law. This proposal would rezone the property now occupied by the Battle Green Inn to allow both commercial and residential use. The plan would include a to be determined amount of affordable housing. The underground parking already on site would be improved and the underground parking entrance relocated to Waltham Street.

The Planning Board recommends approval of Article 2 by a vote of 4 to 1.
The Planning Board Report on Article 2

ARTICLE 3 USE OF DRIVEWAY ON MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE

To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to grant a permanent easement to David and Tetiana Pronchick to continue to use the existing portion of their driveway located at 1888 Massachusetts Avenue that extends onto Lot 166 shown on Assessor's Property Map 49; or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
(Inserted by the Board of Selectmen)

DESCRIPTION: A survey of the property abutting the town-owned Belfry Hill land revealed that a portion of the driveway extends onto the Town property. The Town originally owned the property as part of the Belfry Hill land, but subdivided it and sold it to the Church of Our Redeemer in 1927. The church sold the property in 2004 to the current owners.
Click here for Map of Property.

ARTICLE 4 PRIOR YEARS' UNPAID BILLS

To see if the Town will raise and appropriate money to pay any unpaid bills rendered to the Town for prior years; determine whether the money shall be provided by the tax levy, by transfer from available funds, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
(Inserted by the Board of Selectmen)

FUNDS REQUESTED: $529,005

DESCRIPTION: This is an article to request funds to pay bills for which no money was encumbered.

Funding Source: Free Cash

Appropriation Committee recommends Approval (9-0).

ARTICLE 5 SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATIONS

To see if the Town will make supplementary appropriations, to be used in conjunction with money appropriated under Article 37 of the warrant for the 2005 Annual Town Meeting, to be used during the current fiscal year, or make any other adjustments to the current fiscal year budget and appropriations that may be necessary; determine whether the money shall be provided by the tax levy, by transfer from available funds; or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
(Inserted by the Board of Selectmen)

FUNDS REQUESTED: $847,396

Funding source(s): Free Cash, State Aid,Transfer (from Minuteman Regional School line item )

Appropriation Committee recommends Approval (9-0).

DESCRIPTION: This is an article to permit adjustments to current fiscal year (FY2006) expenditures. Funds may be requested for school costs and municipal utility costs.

ARTICLE 6 SCHOOL PROJECTS AND EQUIPMENT

To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for remodeling, reconstructing and making extraordinary repairs to school buildings, including architectural and engineering services in connection therewith, and for the purchase of additional equipment; determine whether the money shall be provided by the tax levy, by transfer from available funds, by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. (Inserted by the School Committee)

FUNDS REQUESTED: None. The Schools will use funds in the current school budget and use school capital funds already appropriated last year (for purchase of other items such as floor scrubbers under Article 30) which had not yet been expended for the original purpose.

DESCRIPTION: This Article is to provide planning and design funds for the schools to insure that projects funded at the Spring 2006 Town Meeting can proceed during the Summer of 2006. Under consideration are roof repairs, energy conservation upgrades, and other building envelope maintenance.

This article will be indefinitely postponed. It was placed on the warrant by the School Committee because it was possible that no funding within the current operating budget would be found.

Appropriation Committee has no recommendation.

WARRANT ARTICLES FOR 2006
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING

Look for that information here when that warrant closes, probably in late January.

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