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4-7-58 _�- land. He stated that he had bought the land for the purpose of building a new residence, had hoped to sub- , divide it as proposed on the plan, selling a suffi- cient number of lots to pay for all the land and realiz- ing a profit for paying for part of a new house. He said that on February 18, 1958 that he had paid the City of Cambridge $7700.00 for the land, and that he now had a $4000 mortgage on said land. It was understood that the gentlemen tentatively agreed to sell to the Town for $6,000, a 70 -foot wide strip located across the land from Weston to Lincoln Streets and contiguous to Route 128. Mr. Cataldo stated, however, that if the 70 -foot strip was to be located anywhere else other than as previously described, he would not want to sell less than the en- tire parcel it was proposed to subdivide. He said that they had refused a firm offer of $18,000 for the land provided the Board of Appeals granted the variance. He said they wanted $21,000 for the entire parcel. It was suggested that they consider further a prieeibr which they would be willing to sell all the land or a parcel thereof to the Town. They were in- formed that the Board would consider the matter fur- ther also and discuss the possible obtaining of an option with the Selectmen. Thereupon, Messrs. Cataldo and Corr left the meeting at 8:t5 p.m. In discussing the matter afterwards, the Board requested that Messrs. Grindle and Snow meet witty the Selectmen the following evening, reporting what information the Planning Board had obtained in its meeting with Messrs. Cataldo and Corr. DeFELICE The. Board next considered the application of Frank DeFelice for approval of a definitive sub - LIBERTY division plan entitled "Part of Liberty Heights" HEIGHTS and dated Jan. 29, 1958. Approved was the draft of a letter to Mr. DeFelice informing him that the Board would be in a position to approve said plan upon his filing with the Board a bond and informing him also of the wording of the proposed vote of approval. (See addendum.) LORITTG Mr. Snow gave a report of his conference during HILL the past week with Mr. Nylander in regard to the ESTATES Loring Hill Estates Section Two definitive plan, SEL% 2 showing the Board the Loring Road study profiles which Mr. Nylander had prepared after said confer- ence. It was decided that in this instance only the Board would approve the study profile showing a leveling area at the foot of Loring Road and a uniform grade of 10.53% for said road. Mr. Snow was asked to notify Mr. Nylander of this decision.