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PLANNING BOARD MEETING AND HEARING <br />iSeptember 11, 1958 <br />A special meeting of the Lexington Planning <br />Board was held in the Board's office, Town Office <br />Building, on Thursday, September 11, 1958 at 7:30 <br />p.m. Present were Chairman Grindle, Members Jaquith <br />and Burnell, Planning Director Snow, and Mrs. Baker, <br />secretary. <br />The Board considered and approved drafts of <br />reports on amendments to the Lexington Zoning By-law <br />as proposed by Articles 6 and 7 on the warrant for <br />the Sppt�mber 15, 1958 Special Town Meeting, said <br />reports dated September 10 and 11, 1959 respectively. <br />Mr. Snow and Mrs. Baker were asked to have said re- <br />ports mimeographed and mailed to all Town Meeting <br />Members. (See addendum.) The Board then adjourned <br />its meeting to attend a hearing in Estabrook Hall as <br />set forth below. <br />At 7:55 p.m. the Board held a public hearing <br />In Estabrook Hall, Cary Memorial Building, to con- <br />sider three proposals to amend the Lexington Zoning <br />' By-law. The same Planning Board members and staff <br />were present as noted above. Approximately 105 per- <br />sons attended the hearing. <br />Chairman Grindle explained the procedure to <br />be followed in conducting the hearing. He then read <br />the first proposal as set forth in the notice sent to <br />all property owners deemed to be affected and as pub- <br />lished in the August 28, 1958 issue of the Lexington <br />Minute -man. Said proposal had been set forth in a <br />petition addressed to the Planning and signed by <br />Anthony R. Cataldo and over one hundred other Lexing- <br />ton registered voters seeking to change from an R 1 <br />One Family Dwelling District to a C 2 General Busi- <br />ness District a small area of land on which was <br />located the Lexington railroad depot and surrounding <br />sidewalks as described in said notice. <br />Mr. Paul Counihan of Concord, representing Mr. <br />Anthony Cataldo, explained that the purpose of the <br />rezoning proposal was to make available for bank use <br />some of the railroad station property in Depot Square, <br />said property being in an R 1 district. He said that <br />State banking authorities would not approve a bank on <br />' this site until the property had been zoned for busi- <br />ness use. He stated that he thought such a rezoning <br />was logical pointing out that all other land on which <br />buildings were located in Depot Square was zoned for <br />R1toC2 <br />REZONING <br />PROPOSAL <br />CATALDO <br />