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care. As decisions emerge portions of the plan are put ' <br />into effect immediately. Under such a process a plan be- <br />comes a living thing, a growing and changing aggregation <br />of projects all consistent with each other and each sur- <br />viving in the plan by virtue of its: inherent merits and <br />with harmony with the rest." <br />With the Town's endorsement of the reoommendation to <br />follow the latter procedure, the Board employed a plan- <br />ning director in September, 1954 and gave serious study <br />to the preparation of a long-range comprehensive plan <br />for Lexington. There was prepared an outlin.e which <br />enumerates the many matters which the Board believes it <br />has to consider in. accepting the full responsibilities <br />of a planning program, a bold program, one entailing a <br />tremendous amount of work, and one encouraging citizen <br />participation in planning. Among the proposals con- <br />sidered, it was decided that the plan should revolve <br />around the following principal studies: <br />1. Population <br />2. Economic Base <br />3. Land Use and Conservation <br />4. Street System <br />5. Transit and Transportation System <br />6. Parking ' <br />�(. Public Utilities and Related Service Problems <br />$. Recreation and Public Open Spaces <br />9. Public Buildings and Civic Appearance <br />10. Planning of Residential, Business and Industrial <br />Districts <br />11. Architectural Plan <br />12. Zoning <br />13. Land Subdivision Regulation <br />14. Building Code <br />15. Long -Range Financial Plan <br />Population and Related Studies <br />To obtain some idea of the rate of Lexington's growth <br />and its possible implications, the first studies under- <br />taken were those of population data. This was done with <br />the understanding that in any community the size, growth, <br />and distribution of present and future population are major <br />factors in determining the proper type, amount and loca- <br />tion of public facilities and improvements, and in plan <br />nin.g the same, so that they will continue to serve citizens <br />adequately and efficiently. One example of the importance <br />of this data in. determining, for instance, educational and <br />recreational services can. be found in Lexington's 1955 <br />census figures. , <br />The numbers of school and pre-school children were <br />arranged by ages in.to three 6 -year groups: pre-school, <br />