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I -R-58 NOTED: that the Lexington Planning Board determines that the plans accompanying accplications #58-58 and #58-60 do not require approval under the Sub- division Control Law, and that said plans be so endorsed. The attention of the Board was called to the PHEASANT fact that there now had been received a grant of ease - GARDENS ments to the Town as shown on the "Pheasant Gardens Lex- ington, Mass." subdivision, the definitive plan of said subdivision being dated February 17, 1958 and approved by the Board on June 301 1958. All matters appearing to be in order the Board endorsed said definitive plan. Mr. Snow Has requested to give the plan to Mr. Stevens for recording. From 8:30 to 8:50 p.m. the Board met with the APPROPRIA- Appropriation Committee in the Town Accountant's office TION COM- to discuss the warrant for the September 15, 1958 MITTEF Special Town Meeting and requests for the appropriation of funds in connection with articles in which the Plan- ning Board was particularly interested. At 9:00 p.m. members of the Recreation Committee, REC?EATION Mrs. Wanless, Chairman, Messrs. Gardner Ferguson and COMMITTEE Colby Kelly, and Recreation Director Samborski, met with the Planning Board to discuss proposals being prepared by the Board's staff for the development of the o roposed Baskin Playground and the redevelopment of the Center Play ,round. Preliminary sketches for the Baskin Play- ground development were shown and discussed with particu- lar reference to orientation and the amount of area which should be set aside for different recreational activities. Of particular concern to the committee, however, was the proposal for the extension of Worthen Road from Lincoln to Waltham Street, and Mr. Snow's recommendation that ultimately all the Center Playground land bounded by said Lincoln and Waltham Streets and the extension of Worthen Road be transferred to the School Committee for educational use. (See the Planning Director's Annual Report for 1957.) Mr. Snow elaborated on this proposal by explaining further the Planning Board's memorandum of July 14, 1958 to the Selectmen and the detailed study for the extension of Worthen Road accompanying said memorandum. Mr. Snow also showed to the Board his scheme for a central school park including the High School property, Center Play- ground, Hayden Centre, town property now used for a dump, and the lands surrounding the old reservoir between Marrett and Middleby Roads. It was pointed out to the Committee that the Planning Board through the Selectmen ,