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PLANNING BOARD HEARING May 8s 1958 ATDMENT TO ZONING BY-LAW M 1 DISTRICT The Lexington Planning Board held a public hearing in Estabrook Halls Cary Memorial Building, on Thursday, May 8, 1958 at 8:10 p.m. to consider a proposal to amend the Lexington Zoning By-law. Present were Chairman Grindle, Members Abbott, Burnell, Jaquiths and Soule, and Planning Director Snow. In additions 124 other people attended the hearing. Copies of the notice of the public hear- ing were distributed to all those presents the same notice having been sent to all property owners with- in the M 1 district and having been published in the April 24, 1958 issue of the Lexington Minute -man. The Chairman opened the meeting by calling attention to the fact that each one present had a copy of the notice setting forth the proposal to be considered, and by stating that unless there were objections he would omit the reading of said pro- posal. (See addendum.) 'There was no objection. The Chairman then explained the procedure in con- ducting the hearing and the reasons for the pro- posed amendment. The statement was made that early in 1957 the Planning Board had received a letter from the State Department of Public Works setting forth the fact that the proposed road from Wood to Bedford Street was to be a controlled access roads and that on the basis of this information the Planning Board had decided to wait until it had received detailed plans of said road before studying the lands adja- cent to the road and preparing plans for the area's development. It was pointed outs however, that dur- ing the week of April 141 1958 the Town had received a letter from the State Department of Public Works reversing its previous positions that the proposed road was to have controlled access status only while under State control, and that as soon as the road was completed it was to be turned over to the Town. It was likewise pointed out that upon receipt of this information the Planning Board immediately prepared the proposed amendment in order to give the Town some protection in the development of the area for M 1 use since under the State law a town cannot lay out a non -access road. ' Chairman Grindle stated that the Board recog- nized that the State's layout of the road might be ATDMENT TO ZONING BY-LAW M 1 DISTRICT