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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;Meeting held at 27 Maple St.  Materials were available from&lt;br /&gt;
https://arlingtonma.primegov.com/Portal/Meeting?meetingTemplateId=6557.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It was the first meeting for new board member Michelle Shortsleeve.&lt;br /&gt;
Vince Baudoin was unable to attend tonight&amp;#039;s meeting.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=Review Meeting Minutes=&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The board approved minutes from their June 15th and July 6th, 2026&lt;br /&gt;
meetings.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=Docket 3907 - 635 Mass Ave=&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This is a special permit application by Chase Bank, to establish a&lt;br /&gt;
branch in Arlington Center.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Claire Ricker, Planning Director) Ms. Ricker says the applicants are&lt;br /&gt;
proposing to establish a 4426 square foot bank branch, along with&lt;br /&gt;
making changes to the exterior and signage.  They will make the main&lt;br /&gt;
entrance ADA compliant, add exterior lighting, and add signs in the&lt;br /&gt;
parking lot.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(John Leone, Attorney) Mr. Leone says that 635 Mass Ave has been&lt;br /&gt;
vacant for several years.  They plan to redo the front entrance, the&lt;br /&gt;
exterior, add lighting and signage, and close up the entrance in the&lt;br /&gt;
northwest corner.  The will revise the side entrance.  Chase will&lt;br /&gt;
continue the office use at this site.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Steve Revilak, ARB) Mr. Revilak notes that the application materials&lt;br /&gt;
say the previous use was a bank.  He hasn&amp;#039;t been in town long enough&lt;br /&gt;
to remember a tenant other than Coldwell Banker, which was a real&lt;br /&gt;
estate brokerage.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(John Leone) Mr. Leone goes through the history of the commercial&lt;br /&gt;
tenants at 635 Mass Ave.  There was a bank in this location, prior to&lt;br /&gt;
Coldwell Banker moving in.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Steve Revilak) Mr. Revilak notes that the application materials say&lt;br /&gt;
they will provide one long-term bike parking space.  He didn&amp;#039;t see it&lt;br /&gt;
on the plans and asks where it will be located.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(John Leone) Mr. Leone says there are U-racks behind the building.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Steve Revilak) Mr. Revilak says that long term spaces are intended to&lt;br /&gt;
keep bicycles secure, and protected from the elements.  The U-racks&lt;br /&gt;
accomplish the first goal, but not the second.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Kin Lau, ARB Chair) Mr. Lau says that long-term racks are intended&lt;br /&gt;
for the employees of the bank.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(John Leone) Mr. Leone says there is space in the basement, but it&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
down a long flight of stairs.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Steve Revilak) Mr. Revilak says the redevelopment board can allow an&lt;br /&gt;
applicant to have additional signs or larger signs, but there has to&lt;br /&gt;
be a reason related to the building&amp;#039;s architecture, it&amp;#039;s position on&lt;br /&gt;
the lot, or the public interest.  He thinks the signs to identify bank&lt;br /&gt;
parking spaces are in the public interest, because they&amp;#039;re leasing&lt;br /&gt;
part of a shared parking lot.  He&amp;#039;s okay with allowing extra signage&lt;br /&gt;
there.  The three 19.4 square feet wall signs are far in excess of the&lt;br /&gt;
40 square foot/business limit in the bylaw, and Mr. Revilak asks why&lt;br /&gt;
the board should allow that.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(John Leone) Mr. Leone says the want the signs to be visible on all&lt;br /&gt;
sides of the building, so it can be identified from any direction.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Shaina Korman-Houston, ARB) Ms. Korman-Houston asks how the&lt;br /&gt;
applicants plan to fill in the back door.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Kevin Kelly, Applicant) Mr. Kelly says the existing stair cuts into&lt;br /&gt;
the masonry.  They&amp;#039;ll be removing and filling the door, and matching&lt;br /&gt;
the dark gray exterior masonry.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Michelle Shortsleeve, ARB) Ms. Shortsleeve says it&amp;#039;s good to see a&lt;br /&gt;
proposal to re-use this commercial space.  There&amp;#039;s an empty tree well&lt;br /&gt;
in front of the property.  She asks if the applicants considered&lt;br /&gt;
planting a tree.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Giovanni ?, Applicant) Giovanni says the tree well is outside of&lt;br /&gt;
their property line.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Michelle Shortsleeve) Ms. Shortsleeve asks if there&amp;#039;s anywhere they&lt;br /&gt;
can add greenery.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(John Leone) Mr. Leone says the building extends to the edges of the&lt;br /&gt;
property line.  All of the surrounding area is town-owned.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Kin Lau) Mr. Lau would like the applicants to revisit the lack of&lt;br /&gt;
long-term bicycle parking.  The board has allowed exterior bike&lt;br /&gt;
lockers in the past, and he&amp;#039;d like the applicants to ask the town if&lt;br /&gt;
that could be allowed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Lau would like to see drawings of the infilled door.  He says the&lt;br /&gt;
board needs to know what it will look like.  He&amp;#039;s also like to see&lt;br /&gt;
details of how the front entrance will be modified, how it will&lt;br /&gt;
transition to the sidewalk.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Lau likes the pilaster lights.  He asks the applicants to talk to&lt;br /&gt;
their landlord, to see if there&amp;#039;s a way they can be carried across the&lt;br /&gt;
whole front of the building.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The chair opens the hearing for public comment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Steve Moore, Piedmont St) Mr. Moore says this is an interior&lt;br /&gt;
renovation but streetscapes are an area of great interest.  He thinks&lt;br /&gt;
the building needs to look integrated.  He thinks it will be important&lt;br /&gt;
to protect the trees alongside David Lamson way.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Reka Murthy, 9 Coolidge Road) Ms. Murthy says her big question is why&lt;br /&gt;
we&amp;#039;re considering a bank in the heart of town.  She thinks banks are a&lt;br /&gt;
dull thud on the life of a storefront.   She&amp;#039;d like to see a more&lt;br /&gt;
imaginative use for this beloved intersection.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There are no more comments from the public.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Steve Revilak) Mr. Revilak says the board has approved other projects&lt;br /&gt;
where bike parking was located in the basement.  Those applicants&lt;br /&gt;
mounted a small gutter on the side of the stairs, so bicycles could be&lt;br /&gt;
wheeled up and down.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Shaina Korman-Houston) Ms. Korman-Houston summarizes the items the&lt;br /&gt;
board would like the applicant to look at.  These included:&lt;br /&gt;
* Long-term bicycle parking&lt;br /&gt;
* Bringing the signage in compliance&lt;br /&gt;
* Looking at options for on-site greenery&lt;br /&gt;
* Additional detailing of the front door, and the door in the northwest corner&lt;br /&gt;
* Investigating options for continuing the exterior lighting across the facade.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(John Leone) Mr. Leone says the front entrance is only a few degrees&lt;br /&gt;
out of ADA compliance, and won&amp;#039;t need to change much.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The board votes to continue the hearing to September 14, 4--0.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=Docket 3879 - 26 Dudley St=&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This is a continuation of a special permit to expand an industrial&lt;br /&gt;
space on Dudley St.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Claire Ricker, Planning Director) Ms. Ricker says tonight&amp;#039;s hearing&lt;br /&gt;
was continued from June.  The applicants have submitted new materials&lt;br /&gt;
which identify the location of EV chargers and reconfigure the drive&lt;br /&gt;
aisle.  The applicants will make a contribution to the tree fund&lt;br /&gt;
rather than planting street trees.  They&amp;#039;ve also provided the solar&lt;br /&gt;
studies the board requested at the previous hearing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Frederick Gilgun, Attorney) Mr. Gilgun says he&amp;#039;s had conversations&lt;br /&gt;
with the Conservation Commission, and things are progressing there.&lt;br /&gt;
They have a hearing with the ConCom on Thursday.  The parking layout&lt;br /&gt;
was an issue at the last ARB hearing.  They&amp;#039;re now proposing 11 spaces&lt;br /&gt;
rather than 12.  Removing a space allowed a realignment of the drive&lt;br /&gt;
aisle.  The parking spaces are wider than normal, which should provide&lt;br /&gt;
better maneuverability.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Revision Energy did solar studies for the two roof areas.  They&lt;br /&gt;
recommended not installing panels on the lower roof, due to extensive&lt;br /&gt;
shading.  The upper roof has limited area available, and would only&lt;br /&gt;
support a 10kw array.  They propose to make the upper roof&lt;br /&gt;
solar-ready, due to lack of solar exposure.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
They&amp;#039;ve provided a photometric study, showing minimal light spillage&lt;br /&gt;
onto Dudley St, and have submitted additional elevation drawings to&lt;br /&gt;
show the building in context with the rest of the street.  Mr. Gilgun&lt;br /&gt;
thinks the additions fit in with the neighboring buildings.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Steve Revilak, ARB) Mr. Revilak notes that the applicants have&lt;br /&gt;
proposed unbundled parking as one of their transportation demand&lt;br /&gt;
management plans.  He asks how that will work.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Bryan Poisson, Architect) Mr. Poisson says the building tenants will&lt;br /&gt;
be charged separately for parking spaces.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Steve Revilak) Mr. Revilak notes some minor inconsistencies in the&lt;br /&gt;
plans.  Sheet CV-101 notes that no street trees will be planted, but&lt;br /&gt;
still shows the location of three street trees.   Sheet A-100 details&lt;br /&gt;
the bike room, but doesn&amp;#039;t show the location of charging stations.&lt;br /&gt;
Since the applicants are using e-bike charging as a TDM measure,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Revilak thinks the charging locations need to be shown on the&lt;br /&gt;
plans.  Sheet A-201 uses the key (15) twice; Mr. Revilak thinks one of&lt;br /&gt;
those should be (16).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Revilak notes the landscaping plan indicates that &amp;quot;Trees, shrubs,&lt;br /&gt;
groundcover, and other plant materials shall be selected from the&lt;br /&gt;
Lexington Preferred Planting List&amp;quot;.  Mr. Revilak asks &amp;quot;why&lt;br /&gt;
Lexington?&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Bryan Poisson) Mr. Poisson says that was a suggestion from the tree&lt;br /&gt;
warden.  Lexington has a preferred planting list, but Arlington does&lt;br /&gt;
not.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Shaina Korman-Houston, ARB) Ms. Korman-Houston asks what the limiting&lt;br /&gt;
factor for the 17&amp;#039; drive aisle is.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Bryan Poisson) Mr. Poisson says the location of the existing building&lt;br /&gt;
is the limiting factor.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Shaina Korman-Houston) Ms. Korman-Houston says she&amp;#039;s a little&lt;br /&gt;
concerned about the width available for the accessible van space.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Bryan Poisson) Mr. Poisson says they&amp;#039;ve widened the parking spaces to&lt;br /&gt;
compensate for the narrow drive aisle.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Shaina Korman-Houston) Ms. Korman-Houston says she&amp;#039;s mostly worried&lt;br /&gt;
about the van space.  She asks about moving it further down the&lt;br /&gt;
parking lot.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Bryan Poisson) Mr. Poisson says the accessible space needs to be&lt;br /&gt;
closest to the building entrance.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Shaina Korman-Houston) Ms. Korman-Houston asks if the color of the&lt;br /&gt;
concrete is changing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Bryan Poisson) Mr. Poisson says it&amp;#039;s not changing.  It will be&lt;br /&gt;
asphalt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Kin Lau, ARB Chair) Mr. Lau also has concerns about the narrowness of&lt;br /&gt;
the driveway.  The corner of the stairs is a limiting factor.  He asks&lt;br /&gt;
the applicants to consider chamfering that corner of the building and&lt;br /&gt;
tightening up the sidewalks.  He&amp;#039;ll agree to a narrower drive aisle,&lt;br /&gt;
but wants to see an improvement.  He asks about the location of the&lt;br /&gt;
trench drain.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Fred Russell, Civil Engineer) Mr. Russell says the trench drain is in&lt;br /&gt;
the lowest spot where water can flow into the infiltration system via&lt;br /&gt;
gravity.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Kin Lau) Mr. Lau would like the applicants to work with the Town&lt;br /&gt;
Engineer on the location of the trench drain.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Fred Russell) Mr. Russell says the Conservation Commission requested&lt;br /&gt;
the trench drain.  This is the lowest spot where gravity flow can&lt;br /&gt;
work, and it was approved by the town engineer.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Kin Lau) Mr. Lau would like the applicants to provide a letter from&lt;br /&gt;
the town engineer to that effect.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Lau suggests changing where the location of the border of the two&lt;br /&gt;
exterior panel colors.  He also suggests layout changes to the second&lt;br /&gt;
floor.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Bryan Poisson) Mr. Poisson says that layout was requested by his&lt;br /&gt;
client.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Michelle Shortsleeve, ARB) Ms. Shortsleeve asks if the applicants&lt;br /&gt;
will use a light colored aggregate for the parking area.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Bryan Poisson) Mr. Poisson says they plan to use asphalt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The chair opens the hearing to public comment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Steve Moore, Piedmont St) Mr. Moore looked at the property via google&lt;br /&gt;
maps.  He says there&amp;#039;s a significant tree in the setback where the&lt;br /&gt;
driveway is proposed.  He thinks that removing that tree will cause&lt;br /&gt;
heat island effects.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Bryan Poisson) Mr. Poisson says that tree was removed some time ago.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There are no more comments from the public.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Steve Revilak) Mr. Revilak thanks the applicants for providing the&lt;br /&gt;
solar assessments.  Based on those assessments, Mr. Revilak agrees&lt;br /&gt;
that the options for solar are limited, and he would be okay with&lt;br /&gt;
making the upper roof solar ready.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Shaina Korman-Houston, ARB) Ms. Korman-Houston would like to see the&lt;br /&gt;
applicants pursue means to widen the drive aisle.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The board moves to approve the permit, with conditions subject to&lt;br /&gt;
administrative approval.  These included:&lt;br /&gt;
* Making the plan corrections that Mr. Revilak noted earlier&lt;br /&gt;
* Noting the location of e-bike charging outlets&lt;br /&gt;
* Making efforts to widen the drive aisle&lt;br /&gt;
* Changing the location of the color transition on the west side of the building.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Special permit approved, 5--0.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=Docket 3909 - 12 Lockeland Ave=&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This is a site plan review docket.  The applicants propose to replace&lt;br /&gt;
a two-family home with a pair of duplexes in the Neighborhood&lt;br /&gt;
Multifamily District.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Claire Ricker, Planning Director) Ms. Ricker tells the board that the&lt;br /&gt;
applicant, Ed McDonald, proposes to demolish the existing two-family&lt;br /&gt;
home at 12 Lockeland Ave and replace it with two two-family homes.&lt;br /&gt;
She notes that this is a by-right project, and the board needs three&lt;br /&gt;
votes to approve.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Bryan Poisson, Architect) Mr. Poisson says this is a multi-family&lt;br /&gt;
project in the Neighborhood Multifamily district.  The existing lot is&lt;br /&gt;
large, over 10,000 square feet.  They plan to remove the existing&lt;br /&gt;
structures and replace them with two duplexes.  They&amp;#039;ll maintain the&lt;br /&gt;
existing curb cut.  Each unit will have long-term bike parking and one&lt;br /&gt;
automobile space.  They&amp;#039;re also proving short-term bike parking at the&lt;br /&gt;
front of the property.  Each unit will have 4 bedrooms and 2.5&lt;br /&gt;
bathrooms.  The homes will have mansard roofs and the exterior of the&lt;br /&gt;
first two floors will be clapboard.  They&amp;#039;re planning to plant four&lt;br /&gt;
shade trees on the property, along with one street tree.  Exterior&lt;br /&gt;
lighting will be motion-controlled.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Steve Revilak, ARB) Mr. Revilak says that Arlington&amp;#039;s zoning bylaw is&lt;br /&gt;
very prescriptive when it comes to two family dwellings.  There are a&lt;br /&gt;
small number of designs that are both functional and meet zoning&lt;br /&gt;
requirements, and that&amp;#039;s what builders build.  Mr. Revilak thinks this&lt;br /&gt;
site plan is interesting and a little different, which he appreciates.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This is a corner lot.  Mr. Revilak verifies which lot lines are&lt;br /&gt;
serving as the side and rear.  He notes a discrepancy in how the&lt;br /&gt;
condensers are depicted.  Sheet C-100 shows eight and sheet C-101&lt;br /&gt;
shows ten.  He&amp;#039;d like the applicants to correct that.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Shaina Korman-Houston, ARB) Ms. Korman-Houston notes that the&lt;br /&gt;
existing house is on the historic property inventory and there may be&lt;br /&gt;
a demolition delay because of that.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Bryan Poisson) Mr. Poisson says he&amp;#039;s aware of that requirement.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Shaina Korman-Houston) Ms. Korman-Houston asks about the material of&lt;br /&gt;
the patio between the buildings.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Bryan Poisson) Mr. Poisson says it will be concrete panels.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Shaina Korman-Houston) Ms. Korman-Houston asks if trash will be&lt;br /&gt;
stored in the basement.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Bryan Poisson) Mr. Poisson says that each unit will have its own&lt;br /&gt;
trash stored.  Two have separate trash rooms, and the other two have&lt;br /&gt;
trash in the basement.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Shaina Korman-Houston) Ms. Korman-Houston suggests walling off the&lt;br /&gt;
trash area in the latter two.  She asks about the intention of the&lt;br /&gt;
horizontal windows on the east and west facades, and what those&lt;br /&gt;
windows will look into.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Bryan Poisson) Mr. Poisson says there are stairs on the other side of&lt;br /&gt;
the windows.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Shaina Korman-Houston) Ms. Korman-Houston suggests looking at more&lt;br /&gt;
traditional windows.  She asks about sheet A-202, and whether there&lt;br /&gt;
will be corner boards.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Bryan Poisson) Mr. says there will be breaks where the building&lt;br /&gt;
turns.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Shaina Korman-Houston) Ms. Korman-Houston asks about light spillage&lt;br /&gt;
onto neighboring properties.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Bryan Poisson) Mr. Poisson says there&amp;#039;s a photometric study on sheet&lt;br /&gt;
C-101.  There will not be any light spill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Kin Lau, ARB Chair) Mr. Lau wants to hear more about the permeable&lt;br /&gt;
deck.  The parking area is underneath the deck and he&amp;#039;s concerned&lt;br /&gt;
about airflow.  He asks how it will be vented, and suggests checking&lt;br /&gt;
with a mechanical engineer regarding CO2 vending.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Bryan Poisson) Mr. Poisson says they&amp;#039;ll take a look at that.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Kin Lau) Mr. Lau believes this area has a high water table.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Bryan Poisson) Mr. Poisson says this was recently brought to his&lt;br /&gt;
attention.  They&amp;#039;re in the process of looking at it, but don&amp;#039;t have a&lt;br /&gt;
final resolution.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Kin Lau) Mr. Lau says the applicants will need to come back to the&lt;br /&gt;
board if they change the architecture of the buildings.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Lau thinks these are handsome buildings.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The chair opens the hearing to public comment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(John ?, 23 Bailey Road) John&amp;#039;s primary concern is groundwater.  He&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
been fighting groundwater since he&amp;#039;s moved in.  He&amp;#039;s got a French&lt;br /&gt;
drain and two sump pumps.  The house across the street had three feet&lt;br /&gt;
of water in their basement after a large storm.  Sometimes his pumps&lt;br /&gt;
put out 36 gallons/minute, and the storms happen every few years.  He&lt;br /&gt;
says the infiltration system won&amp;#039;t function if it&amp;#039;s full of&lt;br /&gt;
groundwater.  He says there&amp;#039;s an underground creek that was buried in&lt;br /&gt;
the 1920s subdivision.  He believes there is ledge underneath the&lt;br /&gt;
property.  He thinks these homes will need sump pumps and battery&lt;br /&gt;
backups.  He&amp;#039;s also concerned about the possibility of his garage&lt;br /&gt;
being damaged during construction.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Patrice Smith, 10 Lockeland) Ms. Smith shares the concern about&lt;br /&gt;
water.  She asks who&amp;#039;s responsible for overseeing the disposal&lt;br /&gt;
hazardous materials.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Kin Lau) Mr. Lau says the building department does that.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Patrice Smith) Ms. Smith is also concerned about the fence.  Cars&lt;br /&gt;
drive quickly around the corner and she&amp;#039;d like to see a lower fence.&lt;br /&gt;
She&amp;#039;s concerned about the impact of sunlight, and the fact that the&lt;br /&gt;
new building will be closer to her property.  She thinks the design is&lt;br /&gt;
well thought-out, though.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Mike Smith) Mr. Smith says there&amp;#039;s an Arlington tree committee.  He&lt;br /&gt;
thinks the new trees should come from their list, rather than from&lt;br /&gt;
Lexington&amp;#039;s.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Stephanie Ford, 12 Lockeland) Ms. Ford is the current owner of the&lt;br /&gt;
property, and she feels very proud about this work coming to fruition.&lt;br /&gt;
She&amp;#039;s had a lot of conversations with the project team and looked at&lt;br /&gt;
the plans.  She&amp;#039;s excited about the aesthetics.  She bought the home&lt;br /&gt;
when her daughter was diagnosed with a mobility issue, and needed to&lt;br /&gt;
be close to a bus.  She had to fight hard to get the property.  In&lt;br /&gt;
2018, a group of 800 homes were added to the historic inventory.  Last&lt;br /&gt;
year, town meeting voted 200--6 in favor of a bylaw that would allow&lt;br /&gt;
homes to be removed from the historic inventory if their inclusion was&lt;br /&gt;
questionable.  The building has a lot of deferred maintenance, so it&lt;br /&gt;
makes sense to replace it rather than trying to retrofit.  The&lt;br /&gt;
location has good access to public transit, and smaller multifamily&lt;br /&gt;
units are more affordable.  She thinks this will provide more housing&lt;br /&gt;
and keep the character of the town&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Steve Moore, Piedmont Street) Mr. Moore is a member of the tree&lt;br /&gt;
committee.  He says they do have a tree list, and he believes their&lt;br /&gt;
list is appropriate.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There are no more comments from the public.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Kin Lau) Mr. Lau says the stormwater and drainage plans will have to&lt;br /&gt;
be approved by the town engineer.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Michelle Shortsleeve) Ms. Shortsleeve suggests making sure there&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
adequate soundproofing between the units.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Shaina Korman-Houston) Ms. Korman-Houston says the drainage issue is&lt;br /&gt;
concerning.  She wonders if it&amp;#039;s worth continuing the hearing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Steve Revilak) Mr. Revilak would like to see the applicants work out&lt;br /&gt;
the drainage issues with the town engineer, as he&amp;#039;s the one who&lt;br /&gt;
approves stormwater plans.  However, if there are changes to the&lt;br /&gt;
site plan or appearance of the buildings, the applicants will need to&lt;br /&gt;
come back to the board.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The board moves to approve the project, with several items subject to&lt;br /&gt;
administrative approval.  These included:&lt;br /&gt;
* Correcting the condenser discrepancy&lt;br /&gt;
* Using horizontal windows on the east and west elevations&lt;br /&gt;
* Ensuring there is adequate ventilation in the garage&lt;br /&gt;
* Ensuring the fencing meets the requirements of bylaw section 5.3.12.B.&lt;br /&gt;
* Working with the town engineer to find an appropriate stormwater solution.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Permit approved, 4--0.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=Open Forum=&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There were no speakers for tonight&amp;#039;s open forum.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=New Business=&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Steve Revilak) Mr. Revilak had heard a lot of news about the Boston&lt;br /&gt;
City Hall employee that was killed while riding her bike on Tremont&lt;br /&gt;
St.  Mr. Revilak went to her vigil on Thursday and heard Mayor Wu give&lt;br /&gt;
a heartfelt set of remarks.  Mr. Revilak asks if staff can share&lt;br /&gt;
anything about Arlington&amp;#039;s Vision Zero plans.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Claire Ricker) Ms. Ricker says she&amp;#039;s worked with Louisa Gag on&lt;br /&gt;
BlueBike projects.  When interviewing transportation planners, she&lt;br /&gt;
asked all of them about vision zero.  It&amp;#039;s important to her, and to&lt;br /&gt;
the town manager.  She&amp;#039;ll be appearing before the Select Board on&lt;br /&gt;
Monday night to present the new traffic calming guide.  She says&lt;br /&gt;
Vision Zero and road safety will be priorities for the new&lt;br /&gt;
transportation planner.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Shaina Korman-Houston) Ms. Korman-Houston notes that the board always&lt;br /&gt;
asks applicants to provide a LEED checklist.  It was a good stand-in&lt;br /&gt;
for stretch code compliance, but she believes that&amp;#039;s no longer the&lt;br /&gt;
case.  She asks if the checklist is still pertinent.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Kin Lau) Mr. Lau thinks the board should discuss this during their&lt;br /&gt;
retreat.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Shaina Korman-Houston) Ms. Korman-Houston says the house and senate&lt;br /&gt;
have included YIGBY legislation in their economic development bills.&lt;br /&gt;
The legislation would allow religious institutions to build&lt;br /&gt;
multi-family housing on their properties, by right.  It appears likely&lt;br /&gt;
to pass this session.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Claire Ricker) Ms. Ricker says she&amp;#039;s about to award a contract to a&lt;br /&gt;
consultant who will help us develop design guidelines.  That project&lt;br /&gt;
should kick off in a few weeks.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Meeting adjourned.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;Update from the Arlington Police Department&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The town received five speed signs through a MassDOT grant.  They&amp;#039;ll&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The town received five speed signs through a MassDOT grant.  They&amp;#039;ll&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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			<title>Arlington Bicycle Advisory Committee - Jul 15th, 2026</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;initial revision&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Meeting held via remote participation.  Materials were available from &lt;br /&gt;
https://arlingtonma.primegov.com/Public/CompiledDocument?meetingTemplateId=6500&amp;amp;compileOutputType=1.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
These notes cover a subset of agenda items.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=Trike Rental Program=&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Grace Carpenter, Disability Commission) Ms. Carpenter says the&lt;br /&gt;
Disability Commission and Recreation Department are organizing a trike&lt;br /&gt;
rental program.  They have three recumbent trikes which can be rented&lt;br /&gt;
for three hours on Wednesdays.  People sign up, and the trikes are&lt;br /&gt;
available at the staking rink shed.  They provide a fewer pointers and&lt;br /&gt;
send riders out on the bike path.  They need more volunteers,&lt;br /&gt;
especially people who can repair bikes.  You can sign up for the&lt;br /&gt;
program via the Recreation Department&amp;#039;s website.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=New State Micromobility Legislation=&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Scott Mullen) Mr. Mullen works in transportation demand management&lt;br /&gt;
planning as his day job, and he was a member of the state&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Micromobility Commission.  The Commission&amp;#039;s plan made sixteen&lt;br /&gt;
recommendations, and the goal was to create a legal framework to cover&lt;br /&gt;
the range of micromobility devices we see today.  The framework uses a&lt;br /&gt;
tiered speed-based approach.  Tier 0 is for mobility devices that move&lt;br /&gt;
up to 20 miles/hour, and includes things like bicycles, skateboards,&lt;br /&gt;
and class I e-bikes.  Tier 1 includes devices that move between 20 and&lt;br /&gt;
30 miles per hour.  Tiers 2 and 3 are faster.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Governor filed micromobility legislation in April and it&amp;#039;s had&lt;br /&gt;
hearings before the transportation committee.  The House&amp;#039;s economic&lt;br /&gt;
development bill contains their version of the micromobility&lt;br /&gt;
legislation.  The Senate has their own version; if it passes, the two&lt;br /&gt;
bills will go to a conference committee to prepare a final version.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The bill includes things like UL certification for batteries, along&lt;br /&gt;
with licensing and insurance requirements.  Mr. Mullen notes that&lt;br /&gt;
class I e-bikes can be re-programmed to attain class III speeds.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Scott Smith, ABAC) Mr. Smith asks if the committee gave any&lt;br /&gt;
consideration to power limits.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Scott Mullen) Mr. Mullen says that 750 watts is typical for an&lt;br /&gt;
e-bike.  Some e-motorcycles can have 3000 watts of power.  He&amp;#039;s not&lt;br /&gt;
sure if the current legislation mentions power.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=Update from the Arlington Police Department=&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Ofc TJ Kelly, APD) Ofc. Kelly provides the committee with speed data&lt;br /&gt;
obtained on the Minuteman Bikeway.  They installed a single speed&lt;br /&gt;
board near Dudley St, to record eastbound traffic for 15 days.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
14,485 bikes rode by the speed board during the 15-day period, for an&lt;br /&gt;
average of 965 bikes day.  The median speed was 12 mph and the 85th&lt;br /&gt;
percentile was 17 mph.  The minimum speed measured was 6 mph, and the&lt;br /&gt;
maximum was 32 mph.  Officer Kelly believes the 32 mph make have been&lt;br /&gt;
a scooter.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The town received five speed signs through a MassDOT grant.  They&amp;#039;ll&lt;br /&gt;
be installed in the coming weeks, to measure speeds in the new safety&lt;br /&gt;
zones.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Linda Epstein, ABAC) Ms. Epstein says she&amp;#039;s seen electric golf carts&lt;br /&gt;
on the street.  She asks how those types of vehicles are regulated.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(TJ Kelly) Officer Kelly says they get limited use plates.  They&lt;br /&gt;
typically go 25 mph or less, aren&amp;#039;t allowed on highways, and have&lt;br /&gt;
registration and insurance requirements.&lt;br /&gt;
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=TAC Update=&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Scott Smith, ABAC) Mr. Smith is ABAC&amp;#039;s liaison on the Transportation&lt;br /&gt;
Advisory Committee (TAC).  TAC didn&amp;#039;t meet in July, so Mr. Smith&lt;br /&gt;
provides an update from the June meeting.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
TAC agreed that the group should do something for town day.  Mr. Smith&lt;br /&gt;
reports that several courtesy signs have been installed on the&lt;br /&gt;
Minuteman Bikeway in Arlington.  Mr. Smith will be TAC&amp;#039;s designee to&lt;br /&gt;
the committee that works on the Minuteman/Mystic connector.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=Bike Tour Sponsorship=&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Paul Morgan, Somerville Bike Committee) Mr. Morgan&amp;#039;s group has&lt;br /&gt;
sponsored several family bike rides, to promote cycling and awareness&lt;br /&gt;
of bike infrastructure.  They&amp;#039;ve run into some difficulties with&lt;br /&gt;
permitting.  They&amp;#039;d like to have part of a route in Arlington, and&lt;br /&gt;
they&amp;#039;re looking to partner with a local organization in order to make&lt;br /&gt;
permitting easier.  They&amp;#039;re considering a route that would start in&lt;br /&gt;
Medford and end at the Hardy School.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=Hill&amp;#039;s Hill Trail Work=&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Matthew de Remer, ABAC) Mr. de Remer says there&amp;#039;s a group that&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
formed do maintenance on the Hill&amp;#039;s Hill bike park.  They&amp;#039;ve done one&lt;br /&gt;
work session to remove an unauthorized ramp, fill in pits, and remove&lt;br /&gt;
litter.  They&amp;#039;re figuring out how often to schedule work sessions.&lt;br /&gt;
The group is working in conjunction with the DPW and Recreation&lt;br /&gt;
Department.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=Modular Music Showcase=&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Christopher Tonkin, ABAC Chair) Mr. Tonkin says the application for&lt;br /&gt;
the Modular Music Showcase has been submitted, and will get a hearing&lt;br /&gt;
before the Select Board on July 27th.  It&amp;#039;s a placeholder for the&lt;br /&gt;
bikeway block party.  There won&amp;#039;t be a bikeway block party this year,&lt;br /&gt;
but a group of folks wanted to do something on the bikeway.  The event&lt;br /&gt;
will be held on September 13th.  Rod Holland and his son are&lt;br /&gt;
organizing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=Lexington Bike Safety Site=&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Lexington Friends of the Minuteman Bikeway created a web site with&lt;br /&gt;
tips on bike safety.  The site is&lt;br /&gt;
https://www.bike-lexington.org/bike-safety. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/wiki/User:SteveR&quot; class=&quot;mw-userlink&quot; title=&quot;User:SteveR&quot;&gt;&lt;bdi&gt;SteveR&lt;/bdi&gt;&lt;/a&gt; uploaded &lt;a href=&quot;/wiki/File:Minuteman-bikeway-speed-summary-spring-2026.pdf&quot; title=&quot;File:Minuteman-bikeway-speed-summary-spring-2026.pdf&quot;&gt;File:Minuteman-bikeway-speed-summary-spring-2026.pdf&lt;/a&gt; Summary of measurements taken by a speedboard on the Minuteman Bikeway. The speed board was set up for 15 days, near Dudley St, to record eastbound traffic.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Summary ==&lt;br /&gt;
Summary of measurements taken by a speedboard on the Minuteman Bikeway. The speed board was set up for 15 days, near Dudley St, to record eastbound traffic.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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