I suppose is there a way to design this building so that when you approach it you have more green more of the building and you have the parking more on the back I don't know I'm just throwing out ideas of being consistent with our prior com because our prior comment wanted that type of thought about the natural contours of the site what are your thoughts as an architect that um to me it's just So, um, symmetrical, stagnant, has this kind of grandiose thing about it, but being symmetrical is what makes it cheaper. No, I get it. But, but the point is our comments are meant to inform the zoning board appeals our thoughts and they can explore that with the applicant. So there could be room for them to negotiate even with a 40B project. Building one big structure might be cheaper, but maybe moving it in a way that allows more of that land landscaping and framing of it in the front is still doable.
Don't vote for themselves. I mean, even if you know, if the the older communities, vote for what the city wants. We have to make sure that they understand that it is a vote for everybody, not just not just them. With both of those and I I believe we've heard um from everybody uh if there's an intention to make a recommendation and and and Patrick, I know you've been the spokesperson to speak to the governing board. the the element of of the of both of those um I liked what you said there Mr. Melton is that um is that if you you know the governing board will make the decisions on those the recommendation can come from the committee um understanding of those pieces as Midell educates you know just you know and brings that information forward she can provide that information of this is the difference between 15% 13% 10% those impacts of those monies but at least there's an understanding there um and uh and but that's the the message conveyed as we heard very much if I'm wrong somebody say but I was hearing stay at 15% was the recommendation and then I heard stay at a recommendation of 127 million as a recommendation those are pieces that you you know but I also believe that what Mr.
I don't know. So I'm just kind of that would be my my suggestion. My suggestion would be a softer approach than Yeah. Whether that means separating the buildings into two or putting it more towards the back of the site or putting the parking is what I mean towards the back of the site in way. I would think that that would be more cons attractive. What do you consider the back of the site? Um is that the high school side or the the other side? Because my my inclination would be to get more inclination would be to squeeze the parking like to have this be There's parking literally all around. That's what you see as you approach this building. Yeah. I mean, my um that's particularly attractive way to approach site. Yeah. I think my top thing would be to increase the density of the um of the trees like move the move the building back toward Waverly more so that you can have a bigger buffer along the high school and you have to you have to question that egress there I mean because yeah that's fair something like that at least at certain times a day.
Melton said needs to be taken into consideration is is that that element of making adjustments to those numbers if needed based on the feelings of because there's that part of it and maybe it's the political side to it. I don't want you know we purposely then looked at okay prior we tried to prioritize the list right so you're going to go after what's absolutely necessary and so if numbers are adjusted so there's there's an element to that but this committee does have the right to bring forward that recommendation at the same amount so the approach that Johnny and Kelly were referring to and others touched on it. I I don't I we don't need to adjust the numbers. The 15% is fine. The one 127 million is fine. If they want to bring it down a little bit, Craig, you did an awesome job. You guys and and company about going through and looking at do we need this?
That that's not I I don't know how they would regulate that. That Yeah. Allow more greenery in the front and move some of this parking out back. I mean, I guess you want to keep the building as is. Yeah. I mean, most of the day I'm not driving up and down there. I mean, I drive on this road literally every day, but um most of the time you zip right by. So, and I imagine the tenants will learn very quickly that you don't make a left turn out of there between 750 and 8:20, right? You just won't you just won't make it. Um, and the same thing in the afternoon. There just hours where you you never you'll never make the left turn. Um, so and maybe that's just learning because likely a lot of the rest of the day likely it's fine that you could make the left turn.
You know, the the restroom needs and the things like that. I can tell you as being a coach at one of those schools, yes, those are needs. So, I don't see they need to go away. Our approach needs to be from the moment we put a recommendation in front of the governing board and the governing board makes a decision if they choose to support that, our next steps, our actions of getting the message out using um the people that are already actively involved with that, getting it out and then not having to fight through all of these different things that goes in a in a in a major election year. That's our that's our strength right now. That's going to be our our push to get this. Whether you like politics or not, it doesn't matter. But they're they're there. That's how we get this out.
So all right. So, um, do you have this stuff on your thing yet? Um, I mean, I I don't have the draft, but definitely you want to take a stab at drafting that now. Time is it? I mean, I like your idea. What's it? I mean, I can try to put language Because I guess what I'm suggesting is this memo essentially gets edited and when we get to context and site these are our new ideas. Do you want me to send you the word version? Sure. I don't know how you want to do this. We can drop. How do you want it on the spot right now? Push it along a little bit. I think you were suggesting more more landscaping here. Basically, move this lot. I think there has to be a wider there has to be a wider section of vegetation there to, you know, because even what they're proposing isn't even as wide as what's on the high school.
And your message with the city that we're voting as a community now. There is no R&D in this. There's no indiv. This is community looking out for our kids, our community moving forward. Period. We want to maintain the level that Daizart has achieved. We're already there as a school district. We need to maintain that. To do that, we need your help. And that's the message that's got to get out there and it's got to be strong. And I 100% agree. And I don't know if this is the right place to say it, but we can do better with our approach through our pack and everything else. Way better. Um I'm I'm just going to leave it at that. I'm not here to bash anybody. I'm just saying we can do better. We all know it. That said, we learned and it's important to learn your lessons.
What is the street right here? East Union. Wider section of vegetation. Yeah. I mean, there's no sidewalk along that side. Um, they have a crosswalk to use the sidewalk on the high school side, which is Are you s Are you saying you're suggesting a sidewalk there or It would be to not necessarily to anywhere, right? If you just there Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think it would be better to have it be green and not a sidewalk and to cross the road to use the sidewalk because the sidewalk there is it's used, but it's it's but and but it's not heavily used, right? That sidewalk. It's a big path. It's a big It's a nice sidewalk. It is a nice sidewalk. Yeah. Yeah. It's a nice sidewalk on the other side of the street. And it's not like I said, it's not heavily used. It can accommodate more people.
I like the fact I I don't you know that you know it failed this that but I like that we need to move forward now. The timing is here. We'd be remiss if we didn't. Here's the fact. If we do neither one of these things, we get nothing. Okay, that's not acceptable. We do one or the other, we still have the need on the other side of the fence. Go for both. What's the worst they could do? Tell us no. Okay, right now we don't have either one. So, let's go. You know what I'm saying? but let's do it the right way with the next steps after that recommendation assuming that the governing board would support the recommendation this committee brings forward. Thank you, Patrick. And and uh um so when you were asking for clarification, um the summary on April 7th would be of what was talked and and done in this meeting, the process that just took place um and can also be presented is is that the recommendation that's going to be made on the 28th is this.
The connection is a key point. Yeah. So, I'd rather have more not put a sidewalk on this building side and plant more trees, have a more density of trees, um, and leave the sidewalk just on one side. So, um, so yes, it would be great to, you know, we talked in our first thing about adding commercial. We talked about those arguments. I think we can still make those arguments. Um, I don't see any of those happening because it's already gone through the state like this and the arguments didn't work the first time. So, um, well, I I mean that's interesting. They didn't we would have hoped they had more like forceful things, but they they sent it back to the town. We do have a chance to comment on this. Have a chance. Yeah, we can always comment. We're commenting to the to the zoning.
So you can let the governing board know that these are the recommendations that are going to come forward on the 28th. The 28th is the formal recommendation date. Do we have to make that motion at this meeting? No. The we do technically we do not because this was right. I I do I do believe us take you know for us to do a final vote if that's something we want to do. Absolutely. We can do that but I don't believe it was necessary for that piece. And every did and every committee member everybody that was in here did did voice their opinion and we heard both and if I summarize override to make a recommendation at 15% and then for bond stay at the current amount and allow the governing board to evaluate and and make the final decision on both of those. Yeah. I Shannon.
Yeah. So, what I've got so far, the planning board would suggest would planning board sees less need for the sidewalk there. Yeah. I mean, and they they're not showing a sidewalk. Um, so it's not like but so I just don't want them to add more add a sidewalk instead of just vegetation. Further suggest considering to move move the parking parking spaces or to the back side of the building. That's all I've got. Very like high level kind of edits to the context of site. Or do we want to say anything about the the block building? Are we okay with that? I think so that goes along with it's it's the um Wildwood, right? It's supposed to kind of fit in. This is no attempt. I think we just Why Why not just no attempt to fit into Yeah, I think um yeah, it's kind of a complete disregard for the Yeah.
He says yes. There you go. I heard I Mary D. Is there anything else that we need to hit before we wrap up? I think that's wrapped up. Well, yes. Thank you. So, we've been a little bit over. So, thank you all. Thank you everybody. All right. Thank you so much for all your input. We appreciate it.
For the Wildwood. for the Wildwood district. I'll start with that. Yeah. So, if you want to send those comments to to Peter El to Peter and Alvar now and I suppose well it it should it shouldn't be too hard to incorporate into MMO. It can looked at Do we need to do this prior to the next meeting? I'll look at it when I get a chance. And then project planning is the next section here. And it talks about building D, but we don't we don't have a building D anymore. No, there's all building very very high level edits here or both of us and uh you know I can I'm I'm just going to edit this letter. You know, I think I'll take keep in the main themes that still remain in this project and then um Yeah. Well, why don't you why don't um I'll take out obviously take out the big the big table.
Yeah. Why don't you send the comments to me and I'll let me like uh because yeah, I wrote a bunch of it. I think you know we can call back Marcelo and send final. Yeah, Marcel said it too. I mean, so I I know most of our projects we spend a lot of time commenting on the look of it. It is not specifically in our bylaws. There's stuff design review, but so I I know we have to potentially have to be careful, but like um I'm sure there's some comments that could be made about about this. And I I um was on for part of the And I think that the residents did an amazing job of things very respectful and very succinct and reporting and and one of them was um you know this doesn't look like it belongs in Ashley to nobody not nobody that was on say um and the particular comment that I think was great was sort of like you kind of have a model across the street of something that people sort of like and looks like Ashlin the school and I I'm just throwing it out there because again we don't really have anything solid our planning board rules but since we do often comment on that I I throw it out there that's hard to tell like was were they trying to match like a brick color in some of it I'm not it's hard to say I didn't see the presentation so but the rendering looks a lot different than the elevations um well I guess not if you look at the I mean it seems like the school side.
Oh, wait. Which is the school side? Yeah. Rendering from East Union Street. So, the East Union Street side looks to me like it has a lot of similar colored brick maybe as the high school. You know, I'm not sure. You know, it's obviously a little hard to Oh, no. It's spruce look fiber cement sighting. That's what it is. Yeah. So it's it's not the same. Just the rendering made it look like brick. Yeah. So I'm not I'm not sure. Um we had less comments on it with the site, you know, because it has no context besides the school. And I'm not sure, frankly, I'm not sure the high school is a, you know, it's a it's not a building that I mean, it serves Ashland well, but I'm not sure it's a um, you know, a highlight architecturally of the town, you know, that we necessarily need to emulate.
On the other hand, it's there. This big building is a lot closer to it than the other. Well, there was one I think part of one building that was closer before, but this whole thing is kind of closer than it was before. So, um, yeah, having some kind of I think it's an appropriate comment to have it be somewhat look like it belongs here, you know, in some way. So how they do that um with that kind of footprint uh challenging I guess. So, but um yeah, so whatever if you want to take a first pass at it, Peter, and then hand it over to, you know, you guys take a first pass at it and send it to me and I'll work on this one. Okay. All right. So, we'll just get that taken care of. Little gardening. All right. So, um, is there anything else we want to talk about with that?
No, I think that covers it. Is there anything on the reports um that we need? committee is in the process of working on strategies narrowing in on those. and I are on the subcommittee that's meeting one day other members comprehensive to help edit some of the strategies. We'll bring that to the next comprehensive that update. Um let's see. There's a breakfast tomorrow that I'm going to that It's a legislative breakfast tomorrow at MAPC Metro West Regional Collaborative. It's in Medidway, I want to say. I think we talked about it last time. Yeah. And uh so I signed up for that going over there to report back on that in two weeks. I haven't really thought about it since I signed up for it. So I traditionally go, but I I drop off my daughter at 8:45 and to get to Medway, I don't think I would be Yeah.
You get there. I don't think I'll be on time, but it's always a good breakfast. I know I I I know it's always a legislative update what's going on. Um it's my understanding that um the governor hopefully will sign the Zoom um continuation um so communities can continue to use hybrid meetings for public meetings. Um I have not um I have not no one's confirmed to me that that is now law. Um but I know it was ing and it was um everyone was was holding tight to hope we have that signed by the 31st. All right. So, um just looking ahead, we will be needing a planning board hearing just at the end of April. Is that right? Is that or sometime in April? We'll be having the planning board hearing for these bylaws. The one hearing that we need to have. Other than that, um, other than that, we don't have anything new on the horizon that we know of.