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!gIi1UTES OF rLA,;,vI �G BARD February 4, 165 The meeting was open at 8 : 00 i,.oinbers present : Richard Dubin; Chairman, Richardson Jonas� Michelle Stone, Earl Marsters R. Dubin: I will ask the Board of Selectmen to make an intro- ductory comment on the revised article 5.5. This is an article that has been submitted by the Board of Selectmen. Richard Term: We spent clot of time revising it. The Town Planner was indispensable in ming through alot of graphics trying to make sense of it. The planning board is ttuck with this in trying to look at some of the clause we had. Its „c difficult to say, because we thought the clause was too broad. grandfathering as of 1/1/77. So what we try to do is to build in some quality zoning in this article without trying to hurt anybody. We are just trying to lessen the impact of any one indiviaual. that we possibly can; keeping in mind that anytime we make a change somebody has to be affected somewhere. R. Dubin: Last time we had quite a few comments on people that they felt had owned lots for a long time and didn' t want to lose the buildability of the lots. `.['he changes I think are designed to protect the handevel oper who has a lot next to his existing house or perhaps a lot in the same subdivision 3 or 4 lots down. It made some changes there , I think that probably eliminated most of the local opposition that we saw last time. Again, this is one that the Planning Board and Board of Select- men have worked on back and forth. From our point of view, we are satisfiedvith this final version. Any negative comments on the proposed article? We can move on to the next. The elimimation .of R1 and R2 zones. An article that opposes the existing and the creation of now 1<3-ifs zones as appears on the map entitled "Z"roposed change to Li3il of zoning snap for Action 2/11/85. The prposed change would delete districts R1 , R21 R3, R4, R5 and replaced with Residence Districts xi3, R4, R31,i, R5. Simiarily, Land Use regulations changes would be made. It replaces R-2 in the zoning table with R3i,i Replaces 22 ,500 minimum lot size with 40 ,000 and replaces exist ing 125' minimum lot frontage with 1501 . erection 9-- Special Provisions-- i)elete M and R2 replace .,vith so the new section reads :