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9-15-58 <br />Report of the Planning Board on the Amendment to <br />the Zoning By-law Proposed by Article 10. <br />On September 11, 1958 at 7:15 P.M. the Planning <br />Board held a public hearing on the proposal to amend <br />the Lexington Zoning By-law set forth in Article 10 of <br />the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting on September 15, <br />1958. The hearing was held upon request by a petition <br />signed by not less than 100 registered voters of the Town. <br />Approximately 105 persons attended the hearing due notice <br />of which was given according to law. At the close of the <br />hearing A consensus of opinion by those present showed <br />69 persons in favor of and none opposed to the amendment <br />as presented. <br />This proposal involves a change of the land on <br />which the center railroad station is situated from an R 1 <br />one family District to a C 2 General Business District. <br />All the railroad property in the center of the town has <br />been included in an R 1 District since at 'least 1929. The <br />station is located on one side of Depot Square facing an <br />area along Massachusetts Ave. which is in a C 2 District. <br />The property abutting the station on the northwesterly <br />side and the property along the north-westerly and south- <br />easterly sides of Depot Square are in a C 2 District. In <br />recent years, the station property has been used about <br />50% for railroad purposes and about 50% for other business <br />purposes. The Board understands that the station is in <br />e <br />the process of being sold and that after the sale it will <br />continue to be used only partly for railroad purposes. <br />The railroad parking area southeast of the station build- <br />ing is not included in the proposed rezoning. <br />In view of the present and anticipated future busi- <br />ness use of the station property the Board believes that <br />the property`should be in a C 2 District. It is antici- <br />pated that such rezoning will not result in any material <br />change in the"land.use character of the Depot Square area <br />since the other property surrounding the Square is already <br />In a C 2 District except the railroad parking area which <br />Is not being rezoned. <br />The Planning Board unanimously recommends the <br />adoption of the amendment proposed under Article 10. <br />Lexington Planning Board <br />Charles T. Abbott <br />Levi G. Burnell, Jr. <br />Thomas S. Grindle, Chairman <br />Wilbur M. Jaquith <br />Richard A. Soule <br />September 12, 1958 <br />