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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Climate Advisory Committee
Date: 2020-10-14
Building: Reading Town Hall
Address: 16 Lowell Street
Purpose: Bi -monthly meeting
Attendees: Members - Present:
Time: 7:00 PM
-RECEIVED
TOWN CLERK
RRAD:NG, MA.
2023 MAR -8 PM 3:08
Location: Conference Room
David Zeek, Chair; Ray Porter, Secretary; Peter MacGown, Associate
Member; Jeff Everson; Member; Celeste Kracke, Member; Denise McCarthy,
Member; Patti Cameron RMLD, Associate Member;
Members - Not Present:
Travis Estes, Associate Member
Others Present:
Kaitlyn King
Chuck Underhill, RMLD
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Ray Porter
Topics of Discussion:
Meeting was held via a Zoom Conference Call
Welcome to Members and Guests
Review minutes, vote on acceptance
Accepted as amended the meeting minutes for 9/23/2020
RMLD Integrated Resource Planning, Chuck Underhill
• Carbon mitigation efforts
• Power supply outlook through 2040
• Demand side programs - efficiency / electrification
• Commercial rebates for new housing construction (531 Main Street)
• RCS filing
• Roadmap 2050 to Net Zero Carbon
RCAC Website Review
• Requirements document distributed for review by Peter
• Focus on the content on the Town website, not the Wordpress site
• May want to move to the same site the Town uses, for consistency (look & feel)
• Sub -committee has not met separately yet to discuss the document via Zoom
• Can the platforms support different media types (pictures, video, audio)?
• We have volunteered to be a host for environmental information (stretch code)
o Information meeting on 10/29
• Wordpress can hide pages we don't want and add pages we need added during
this transition to a final site (hybrid/incremental approach)
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Town of Reading - Meeting Minutes
Road Diet Public Meeting 9/29 - Observations and Comments
• Professionally presented
• Comparison to a similar project in Hingham
• Central planning had a previous study as a baseline
• Expectation of going from 4 through lanes to 2 lanes would result in slower traffic
Influx of New Residents
Real estate market is still strong
• Increase in the number of new residents into Reading
• Movement out of Boston
• Potential impact on traffic and mass transit system.
Next meeting 10/28/2020 at 7:00 pm
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