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SPECIAL Read also was the Board of Selectmen's May 29, TOWN 1957 letter to the Planning Board setting a tenta- MEETING tive date of June 24, 1957 for a special town meet- ing to consider an amendment to the zoning by-law to provide for a regional shopping district. GREELEY AND At 7:50 p.m. Messrs. Roland Greeley and Burn - KELLY ham Kelly met with the Board to discuss the former's May 25, 1957 letter to Chairman Grindle in regard to the proposal, as published in the Lexington Min- ute -man, to amend the Lexington Zoning By-law to provide for regional shopping center districts. Discussion centered around two major points Mr. Greeley made in his letter; namely, the provision for only one type of use of the area proposed for re -zoning, and the treatment of the entire proposed zoning district as a single lot. The gentlemen named above left the meeting at 9:00 p.m. TAX TITLE Having investigated various matters in re - LOTS gard to the sale of tax title lots listed in the Selectmen's April 26, 1957 letter to the Planning Board, Mr. Snow discussed the problems involved in exchanging some or all of these lots for a tract of land the Planning Board had previously recommended for acquisition for playground purposes, said tract ' being owned by Antonio Busa. Particularly dis- cussed were the Planning Board's letters of Jan. 16 and December 17, 1956 to the Selectmen in regard to the acquisition of the Busa tract located north- easterly of Anthony Road and bounded in part by Circle Road and the Great Meadows. In view of the many details the Board had to discuss in regard to the proposed regional shopping districts amend- ment to the Zoning By-law, it was decided to post- pone further consideration of the exchange of land until after the latter part of June. OAK HILL The Board considered the May 27, 1957 letter ESTATES from the Sandy Brook Corp. in regard to the Board's tentative approval of the Oak Hill Estates pre- liminary subdivision plan. Read to the Board, approved by the same, and signed by the chairman was the draft of a letter dated June 3, 1957 to said corporation stating that in approving the prelimi- nary plan it was the intent of the Planning Board that "A" Street be constructed 50 feet in width be- ginning at the rear lot lines of Patterson and Bond roads as shown on said plan, the remaining road between said lots to be 40 feet wide. ,