Procedural: The committee increasingly feels under the gun to complete its report for the 27 July TF mtg. they will meet 0730-1000 next Tuesday and may then have an interim mtg. On 27 July AM they plan to spend half the mtg hearing comments, including from the public, and then revising.
Substance: Chairman Robert Goudie had prepared a draft report he shared at 8:30PM the preceding evening on the North Town Center area which almost nobody had a chance to read. One key point was incentives for more density:
--support for building a grid
--adequate open space
--distinctive design
--appropriate mix of residential and non-residential.
The Committee continued to wrestle with the south side, wondering how to get developers to do the right balance of residential and commercial (1 to 1) and how to provide incentives to get cooperation between parcel holders. There was some talk of 5 FARs near the station with 30 story buildings and 3.5 elsewhere.
Tishman/Speyers again expressed resentment that they are being forced to deal with Brookfield, which they said is "being empowered to control everything."
Some discussion about how far West to extend the TOD--perhaps as far as the storage buildings in E-1.
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