1948-03-01-TE-Warrant-and-1948-03-022-ATM-Warrant

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p"' - 8 it Article 54. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money to be expended by the Planning Board established under Section 81A of Chapter 41 of the General Laws for carrying out Sections 73 to 81Y inclusive of said Chapter 41 and to provide for the payment thereof . by direct appropriation, by transfer from available funds, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 55. • To see if the Town will vote to amend the Lexington Zoning By-law by striking out the second and third paragraphs of Section 6 (a) thereof and inserting in place thereof substantially the following : Lots lawfully platted and duly recorded by plan or deed prior to the date of adoption of this amendment, vacant or improved, and of less width or area than the minimum required by the zoning by-law are hereby regulated as to change of use as follows : after adoption of this amend- ment, any such lots adjoining one another in a common ownership may be built upon only if combined into units of ownership which fulfill the lot width, front yard and side yard requirements of the zoning by-law, but not necessarily the lot area requirements thereof, provided that this shall not prevent building- on any isolated single small vacant lot, duly recorded as aforesaid, not adjoined by other land of the same owner, and further provided that on any such lot there shall be established between each side lot line and the nearest side Of any permitted main or accessory structure a side, -yard at least 7.5 feet wide if said lot was recorded prior to July 19, 1929, at least 10 feet wide if said- lot was recorded on or after July 19, 1929, but not before October 6, 1938, and at - least 15 feet wide if said lot was recorded on or after October 6, 1938. Article 56-0 To see if the Town will vote to amend the Lexington Zoning By-law by appending to the first sentence of Section 13 thereof the following words : "also the names of the owner of the lot in question and the names of the owners of the lots adjacent thereto ." Article 57. To see if the Town will vote to amend Section 7 (a) of the Lexington Zoning By-law by Striking out the word "twenty" and substitute therefor the word "thirty", and by striking out the word . "forty" and substitute therefor the word "fifty", and by inserting before the last clause thereof the words : "except that on a vacant lot between buildings already existing a structure may be placed as near the street lot line as the average of the setbacks of the buildings existing in the lots adjacent on either side of the lot in question; and. . . . "so that Section 7 (a) shall then read : In residence districts designated as R.l and R.2 and T.l and in C .1 districts designated at the following points, namely, junction of Waltham Street and Marrett Road, known as"Grape Vine Corner"; junction of Marrett Road and Spring Street; junction of Lincoln and School Streets and Marrett Road, commonly known as "The Five Forks"; junction of Waltham Street and Concord Avenue; junction of Woburn and Lowell Streets and the junction ' of Lowell and North Streets, and in C.1 Districts hereafter created, a yard of at least thirty feet in depth between the exterior line of the street, and not less than fifty feet from the center line of such street, whether accepted or not, and the adjacent' line Of any porch or building, shall be provided for every lot of land, and no new building -or structure shall be constructed, and no building or structure shall be moved, altered, re- constructed, enlarged or rebuilt in such districts so that a yard less in depth shall result; except that on a vacant lot between buildings already existing a structure may be placed as near the street lot line as the average of the setbacks of the buildings existing in the lots adjacent on either side of the lot in question; and except that this ' section shall not apply to buildings fronting on streets on which building lines shall have been specially established according to law during or subsequent to the year 1924."