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439 and shown on plan on file in the Town Clerk ' s Office entitled , " Plan showing proposed relocation of a portion of Mass . Avenue , Lexinrton , October 17 , 1030 , Scale 1 inch - 20 feet , John T . Cosgrove , Town Lnprineer , " and for theT Massa- . of relocating assa- chus et is Avenue the sum of : ').55 , 000 be appropriated , and for the purpose of raisi nm *this money the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to sell , under the direction of and with the approval of the 'loam? of Selectmen , bonds or notes of the Town issued and payable in accordance with law , so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than ten years or at such earlier dates as the Treasurer and the Selectmen may determine . " A vote was takenon Mr . Trask ' s motion , sixty - one voting in the affirmative and fifty - seven in the negative . The vote req Tiring a two - thirds vote the Moderator declared the motion lost . Art . 9 . On motion of Mr . Theodore A . Custance , this article was taken from the table . On motion of Mr . Theodore A . Custance the following vote was passed unanimously : " Voted : That the Board of Selectmen be authorized to install approximately 7350 feet of water pipe of not less than 6 " in diameter in Wood. Street , subject to the usual guaranty . tnd that the sum of $25 , 000 be appropriated for the Water Construction Account , and for the purpose of raising this money the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to sell , under the direction of and with the approvalof Selectmen ,the Board of Selectmen bonds or notes of. the Town issued and payable in accordance with the law . " The Appropriation Committee stated that they approved of the above expenditure . Art . 7 . On motion of Mr . William P . Herbert this article was taken up . Mr . Frederick L . 1:mery , Chairman of the Planning Board , read the report of the Planning Board on this request to change the Zonin _3 Law . The report is as follows : REPOF.T OF THE PLANNING BOARD . Petition of Catherine F . Herbert for change in the Zoning By- law and Zoning Map from an R . 1 Res denti ' ii District to a C . 1 . Business Distr . ct of the corner plot of land in the apex at the junction of Massachusetts Avenue and arrett Road . A hearing was granted by the Planning Board on the 21st of July , 1930 , pursuant to a notice pu dished in the Lexington Ti -les -Minute-Man in its issue of aTuly 4Wh , 1930 , more than fourteen days prior to the date assigned to the hearing and some sixty notices sent by registered mail to residents within the area designatediky the Planning Board as affected by the proposed chnige . Five citizens appeared in response to the notices , two of whom were Mr . and Mr :; . Herbert . No need was expressed at the hearing for business at this location except the desire to install a filling station thereat , and that this was the purpose of the petiti .. n was admitted by the petitioner . The Planning Board feels that there is no need for another filling station in this locality- there already exist two filling stations at the Five Forks , eight tenths of a mile south of the point whe : e the change in zoning is requested , and another filling stats . n eight tenths of a mile to the north . The junction of Massachusetts Avenue and Marrett Road is a partscularly dangerous one , with heavy and fast traffic already moving upon Marrett Road , and with the prospects of an increasingly heavy traffic on the new