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I PLANNING BOARD MEETING May 14s 1958 A regular meeting of the Lexington Planning Board was held in the Town 'Engineer's Rooms Town Office'Bizildings on -Wednesdays May 14, 1958 at 7,56 p.m. Present were Chairman Grindles Members Burnell$ and Soules Planning Director Snows and the secretary. The Board approved the follow9ng bills i&ich had been presented --for ayment: Erie County Plan- ning Boards -3 reports-- 2.25; -'Samuel P.'Snows car allowance for April., $20.000 reimbursement for - stamps, $3.60, tracing papers $2.10s total --$25.70; Louise M. Baker, -stencils and typing for special town meeting -47.00; Mrs. Jean Baxter, stenographic service --$17.60. At 8300 p.m. a'publie hearing was held on appli- cation of Walter G and Minola M. Black for approval of a'subdivision to be known as "Pheasant Gardens Lexingtons Mass." The Chairman read the notice of ' the hearing as it had been mailed to all those deemed to have been affected and as it was published in the April 24, 1958 issue of -the Lexington Minute - Man. He -then explained the procedure Ih conducting hearing and called upon the applicant to present his plan. BILLS PHEASANT GARDENS BLACK Mr. Black+stated that the -Pheasant Gardens subdivision was an extension of Minola Road for a distance of"about 653 -feet. He said that the original subdivision plans -'similar to the one he was submitting$ had been approved in 1937 but that he had riot recorded- the plan -until after ik zoning- amendmebt 1ncrea6ing the area and -f rontage-of lots shown on said plan. Mr. Black further stated that All the proposed -lots 'on' the plane he was now sub- mitting did not conform to'the present zoning by-laws some lots -not having sufficient areas and one having 116 feet of frontage instead of the required 125 feet. He pointed outs however, that all of said lots were as large or larger than those abutting the subdivision. Mr. C. H. Lothrop of 83 Bloomfield Street ques- tioned plans for taking care of surface drainage which ' came from Highland Avenue; He was told that any problem of this nature would be properly attended to by the town's department of public works.