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2. It does not made any difference to Lexington which road is put through. The Marsh Street route is the best as far as engineering goes. It was suggested that the Board join with the Arlington people and save Marsh Street when the Spring Street route could be used just as well. At the hearing, Mr. Pillsbury asked if there was anyone representing the Lexington Planning Board. Mr. Cosgrove informed him that the Lexington Planning Board favored the Spring Street route since it was being treated as a through highway to Concord and not a local project; that the Board did not want it to stop at Boi man Street. It was decided to wait until we received further informa- tion before we are celled upon to give action. A letter was read from S. R. Wrightington in which he ex" pressed his opinion as to the extent to which the Town, in develop- ing the project of Vine Brook Drainage, may make takings by eminent domain for highway and drainage purposes while postpon- ing actual construction. The project should be presented to the Town as a whole and the town's interest would be safeguarded by a layout, so that it would still be there when the town sees fit to construct. If the lower end were constructed, the balance is left as a guide for those who are going to carry it out later. It was suggested that the lower end below Mass. Avenue be done one year and the next year it could be carried through to the south and south west. The only land it would damage is Mr. Burnham's. The brook would be three feet lower and his land is five or six feet above it now, and this might make it impossible for farming. The Drainage Act, Chapter 263, Acts of 1926, under which the Town is given authority to make takings for the purpose of surface or ground drainage to improve brooks, etc. was read and discussed. If roads and drains are mixed up, you will enter into two different things. If a road is planned, lay it out as a road, and if a drain is planned, lay it out as a drain. You cannot make a layout for drainage purposes but you can for streets. It was stated that there was no need for a road below the Trotting Park or the intersection of Utica Street although there is plenty of opportunity for a layout of streets below that point. Vine Brook It was also suggested that at some future date a road Project should come up from Paple Street through the nursery to Vtoburn Street between Vine and Utica Streets and continue northwest across Vine Brook in back of Granny Hill to Adams Street along the line of the sewer. It was decided that it would be impossible to proceed any further until we had received plans of :the la tout . It was suggested that we lay out lines with what seems to be a reasonable and proper margin along both sides of the brook, then la-, out a street along both sides, ta'.ce