1985-06-12 Planning Board Minutes

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MINUTES OF THE MEETING CE JUNE 12, 1985 Chairman Rich called the meeting to order at 7:30 P.M. in the first floor meeting room, 6 Lc,well' Street (old; Library building) with Board members M. Slezak, D. Devine, S. Trainor and J. Wood present. gal so present were Ms. Gal; Wood and Reading Chronicle reporter Nina Gaeta Correspondence Board reviewed mail. Chairman of the Town of Reading from the will be forwarded to Mr. Drew. Executive Session Rich is in receipt of a land map Town Clerk. A note of thanks Sir. Devine asked that the Board defer any discussion on the letter from the Administrative Assistant until later in the meeting when they would like to go into Executive Session for this discussion. Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Board voted 4-1-0 to adjourn later in the meeting to executive session for the purpose of.discussing personnel matters and not to convene back into open session upon the following roll call vote: Mr. Devine - aye Mr. Slezak aye Mr. Wood - nay Ms. Trainor - aye Chairman Rich - aye Interim Report on John Street Land Study by MDM, Pam McKinn ,iris. McKinney gave a report of progress She passed out a review of the options considered for building on this site (attached). From all accounts, Ms. McKinney stated that there is no market for residential construction on a landfill. What the site constraint costs will be can be further determined after meeting with Maley « Aldrich on June 17th. Ms® McKinney reported that they were looking at the 3 options as outlined in the `KErP''' Develop the entire site privately * Develop the site with the BPW located: on the 8.32 acres as designed,,with the remaining land being developed privately Reconfigure and relocate the BPiti garage and develop the remaining land privately. iM=DiM'I was also looking considering; the cost What type/kind of die and what will Lid' the and issues have been the program. at what "character" this site should have factors of building on a farmer landfill. velopment can support costs for development public cost/benefit? After these questions answered, core=es the `poi; of implementation of Ms. McKinney spoke of the advantage of having a corporate headquarters located directly across the street. This could be the keystone in developing this parcel of land. As she currently foresees the market, it looks like a combined use (office park, light research and development, and hotel.) might he best.