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7-14-58 -4- You may be interested to know that, at my request, the State Department of Natural Resources is reviewing these plans. Their planning consultant In his preliminary report had the following to say in regard to my plans: "Frankly, I am most agreeably surprised by the scope and nature of this proposed park system program, as outlined to me by the Planning Board's Director, within the size of a town like Lexington. I know of no such town that has even conceived in such intelligent and farsighted terms of what I would call a com- bination of a conservation and recreation program - not only for the benefit of today's population but especially for the generations to come." In another letter, replying to your letter of June 5, I am setting forth the progress made in regard to the Baskin Playground and North :street - Vine Brook Recre- ation Area plans. In regard to the former area, I expect to ask the Recreation Committee, Planning Board, and Selectmen for a joint meeting in August to review detailed plans and proposals for said playground. Sincerely yours, /s/ Samuel P. Snow Planning Director Ila. July 1958 Board of Selectmen Lexington 73, mass. Re: Worthen Road Gentlemen:- '.eference is made to Mr. Stevens' November 14, 1957 letter to Mr. Snow. A copy of said letter is attached. Reference is also made to Mr. Snow's report to the Planning Board, beginning with the last paragraph on page 261 and continuing through the third paragraph on page 263, as published in Lexington's 1957 Annual Report of the Town Office. -s. On ItiTay 26, 1058, at your request, the Planning Board discussed with- ,ou its proposals for Worthen and Emerson Roads and exhibited at that time on a marked print its recommendation for the location of Worthen ' Road across the Center Playground from the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Lincoln Street to Waltham Street. A cop7 of said print is attached herewith,