As Lexington starts a new year, we find ourselves facing some very critical issues. The impact of the MBTA multi family overly districts and the challenges the hundreds if not thousands of new housing units will bring to Town. Couple this with the proposed new billion dollar plus high school on our playing fields, Lexington has much to discuss and debate.

These two issues will, no doubt, be areas of great focus in our upcoming Town elections. It’s important that citizens get educated and engage.

With this in mind, I invite everyone to join in community conversations to share information and opinions. The next scheduled conversation will take place on Wednesday January 8th from 6:00-9:00 at the community room in the police station. Participation can be in person or by Zoom. To get the link, go to LHS4all. Other dates will be Jan. 22nd, Feb. 12th, Feb. 26th and March 12th. Please, come to share your ideas. 

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3 Comments

  1. Thank you Peter. This is very important and I support alternatives to the design put forth by the School Building Committee. They should not build on the fields, and the Town should look more aggressively for ways to reduce costs of the new High School.

  2. Thanks Peter! Nice to have an open forum and a safe place for idea exchange. These topics are complicated and often confusing.

  3. We’re going to spend over a billion dollars on a new high school campus and the main concern is how it will affect playing fields? I feel like this is a distraction. The main questions should be, is this expense really necessary for the education of our children? Also, how will this development impact our local environmental and global climate goals?

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