HomeMy WebLinkAbout1952-11-17-STM-Warrant TOWN WARRANT
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said County,
Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed
to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Lexington, qualified to vote
in elections and in Town affairs, to meet in the Cary Memorial Building,
in said Lexington, on Monday, the seventeenth day of November, A. D.
1952, at 8 o' clock P. M., then and there to act on the following
articles :
Article 1. To receive the reports of any Board of Town Officers-
or of any Committee of the Town and to appoint other committees.
Article 2. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of
010,670.54 to reimburse the United States Housing and Home Finance
Agency for the unpaid balance of the cost advanced by that agency
to the Town for the preparation of plans for the construction of
the Mill Brook Sewer and provide for payment thereof by a transfer
of said sum from the Metropolitan District Sewer Plan Fund; or act
in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to construct a sanitary
sewer in or near Bedford Street from Eldred Street northerly to the
proposed terminus of the Bedford force main near Winter Street, subject
to the Selectmen obtaining an agreement from the Town of Bedford to
reimburse the Town of Lexington for the full cost of such construction,
and to take by eminent domain, purchase or otherwise acquire any fee,
easement or other interest in land necessary therefor; appropriate a
sum of money for such construction, including land acquisition; and
determine whether the money shall be provided by transfer from avail-
able funds, including any special sewer funds, or from unexpended
appropriations or by borrowing, or by any combination of these
methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 4. To receive the report of the Committee for Veterans'
Memorial Library and see if the Town will authorize the School Com-
mittee, on behalf of the Town, to obtain bids and enter into a contract
or contracts for the construction and original equipping and furnishing
of the high school library in the new high school building, and will
designate it as the "Veterans' Memorial Library" ; appropriate a sum
of money for such construction and original equipping and furnishing
and determine whether the money shall be provided by transfer from
available funds or from unexpended appropriations, or by borrowing,
or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner
in relation thereto.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote a supplementary appro-
priation to be used in conjunction with and in addition to the money
appropriated under Article 40 of the Warrant for the 1951 Annual Town
Meeting for the construction and original equipping and furnishing of
a new high school building and determine whether the money shall be
provided by transfer from available funds or from unexpended appro
priations or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods;
or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 6. To see if the Town 14,,,1,,1 Vote to amend the Zoning By-
Law so as to change certain land fromrl District to a C 2 District by
adding in Section 4. (d) C 2 - General business districts, the follow-
ing new paragraphs :
8. A district beginning at a point which is the southerly
boundary of the C 2 district on the westerly side of Bedford
Street, thence running in a southerly direction along Bedford
Street 268 feet plus or minus, thence turning and running in
a westerly direction along land now or formerly of Josephine
E. Bailey and extended to a depth of 380 feet plus or minus
southwesterly to the property of John P. Whalen, thence
turning and following property line in a northerly direction
to a point where the extended property lines of Lester L.
and Ida B. Andrews and Viano Properties Inc. join, thence
turning in an easterly direction on a line to the point of
the beginning.
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9. A district also beginning at a point which is the southerly
boundary of the C 2 district on the easterly side of Bedford
Street, thence running in a southerly direction along Bedford
Street 235 feet plus or minus, thence turning and running in
an easterly direction along land now-:or formerly of Evelyn
H. & Leslie D. Martin 160 feet plus or minus, thence turning
and running in a northerly direction along land of the
Boston and Maine Railroad 250 feet plus or minus, thence
turning and running in a westerly direction along the land
of Frederick g. Johnson 244 feet plus or minus to the point
of the beginning,
(Inserted at the request of one hundred or more registered
voters. )
And you are directed to serve this warrant seven days at least
before the time of said meeting as provided in the By-laws of the Town.
Hereof fail not, and make due return on this warrant, with your
doingsthereon, to the Town Clerk, on or before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Lexington, this twentieth day of October,
A. D., 1952.
Selectmen
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CONSTABL'E'S RETURN
To the Town Clerk 1952
I have served the foregoing warrant by posting a printed copy thereof
in five (5) public places in the Town and also by sending by mail,
postage prepaid, a printed copy of such warrant addressed to every
registered voter of the Town at his last residence, as appears from
the records of the Board of Registrars of Voters /°. days before
the time of said meeting.
Attest : C. , stable of Lexington