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39S Selectmen's Meeting January 14, 1974 In accordance with G.L. Chapter 41, section 81-1, the Planning Board is to be notified of the vote of the intent to lay out the streets, and requested to make a written report within forty-five days. • The date for street hearings is February 6, 1974 in Cary Memorial' Hall. Chairman Kenney read a letter from Mr. Joseph Rooney, Chairman of Piano the Lexington Housing Authority, stating that the residents of Vyne- Vynebrooke brooke Village has petitioned the Trustees of Public Trusts for the Village sum of $500 for the purchase of a piano. Mr. George Morey, Trustee, has indicated that $500 could be donated from the Beals Fund if the Selectmen so request. Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to request the Trustees of Public Trusts for the sum of $500 from the Beaus Fund to the Vynebrooke Village Community Club for the purchase of a piano. Chairman Kenney read a memo from Mr. McSweeney, Chairman of. Traffic Safety Committee, stating that in view of the ongoing and pro- posed development along Bedford Street between Route 128 and Winter Street, the Traffic Safety Committee sees new and greater traffic Traffic problems coming into view. This development will significantly in Bedford St. crease side friction and conflicting turning movements and, most probably, bring an already aggravating situation to the point of being intolerable... The Traffic Safety Committee feels that the Board should request the Board of Appeals and Planning Board have a Traffic Impact Statement - projected volumes and their effect on the area, included in any applications for building in this general area. Further, the Committee feels that serious consideration` should be given to widening Bedford Street and making it a divided road- way with limited left -turn possibilities, and providing adequate access to all proposed developments in the Bedford Street area. The Board agreed to write to the Planning Board and the Board of Appeals and request that applicants for development in the Bedford Street area be asked to submit a Traffic Impact Statement with their proposals. Also, the Board would encourage this procedure be ex- tended to proposals in other areas of the Town where traffic appears to be a problem. The Traffic Safety Committee is prepared to assist in the evaluation of these Traffic Impact Statements upon request. Mr. Brown discussed CATV and said that the Advisory Committee on CATV Cable Television had requested and had been granted permission from the Board to conduct a survey of Lexington residents. A question- naire will be sent to approximately 250 households during the weekend of January 26-27 to ascertain the interest of having CATV in the Town.