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TOWN OF LEXINGTON 121 ' Concord Rill when the development shall have proceeded sufficiently to determine where such district should be placed. These districts alloted to business do not mean that every building within such districts must be devoted to business, merely that business buildings may be erected and business carried on in these districts but not elsewhere, permitting in addition either single or double dwellings to be erected in these areas to any extent desired by the own- ers of the properties. If any dwelling standing in any of these business districts be damaged by fire, it may be re- built as a dweilings, if the owner desires, The fact that? these districts are designated business districts does not exclude residences; it requires that business be locates therein and not elsewhere. Additional business districts may be established from time to time by two-thirds vote of a town meeting as the need for such additional districts develops. RESIDENCES All existing non -conforming dwellings remain undie- turbed. The bulk of the open area in The town is reserved for single-family dwellings because, in the opinion of the majority of your committee, that character of development will be distinctly to the best interests of the town as a whole and of the individuals owning the properties. If at anytime the owners of properties in any given section of the town show that their several properties can be success- fully developed only by admitting two-family dwellings, they may, be a two-thirds vote in a town meeting, have such areas opened for two-family development. The ma- jority committee, however, recommend several specific areas within which two-family dwellings may be erected at any time in addition to single-family dwellings existing or to be built therein, such two-family areas being specified as fol- lows:—Beginning at the Arlington line, on both sides of Massachusetts Avenue as far north as Oak Strut ; also, on both sides said Avenue from Pleasant Street to Plainfield Street; also in Lexington Center, at the east of Massachu- setts Avenue beyond the railroad and embracing what is known as the Grant Street and Fletcher Avenue district as shown by the earlier plan of the Board; also, to the west of Massachusetts Avenue in the district generally bounded by Waltham Street, Vine Brook and Parker Street, as shown on said earlier plan; also, on both sides of Bedford Street from Custance Brothers' shop to Revere Street, and upon 122 ANNUAL R>✓PORT Concord Hill, on the easterly side of Massachusetts Avenue from Cedar Street to and including Lake Street and Colum- bus Avenue. The two-family districts above specifically designated do not mean that nothing but two-family dwellings may be erected therein, but that two-family dwellings may be erect- ed therein in addition to singe -family dwellings at the option of the property owners. As above stated, additional two-family areas may be created from time to time by the town as the need for the same develops. The area in the McIntosh development on Middle Street at "crane Vine Corner" and to the west thereof pre- viously- ri–viously recommended for double -family development is, by the present report, removed front such development and is recommended as a single-family development in common with adjacent areas. So also the area bordering both sides of Bedford Street from just above the coal yardto the Bedford line, which in the earlier report was recommended for double -family development, is by the present report re- moved from such development and recommended as a single- family development in common with adjacent areas. THE BY-LAW ITSELF Taking up now the provisions of the by-law itself, no change is recommended by the; majority committee with respect to Sections 1 to 6, inclusive, that was not recom- mended at the time the report was presented at the Feb- ruary 18th special town meeting. Section 7. Mi districts, for light manufacturing, has been amended in the present majority report by cancelling the Last two clauses of the praragraph reading: --"and em- ploying not more than twenty employees, in any single and segregated building unit." The foregoing cancellation permits any number of em- ployees to be employed and should satisfy the demands of all favoring the encouragement of manufacturing. Under "Height Regulations," Section 8, paragraph (a), the limit of height of residences has been increased to 40 feet. The principal protection is still derived from the limitation to "two and one-half stories" and the increase in feet is given to make certain that no such residence shall be excluded if found in conflict with the provisions of this