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Annual Report <br />' Progress was made during the <br />sition of land for recreation and <br />poses. At the annual town meeting <br />1958 the Town voted: <br />year in the acqui- <br />other public pur- <br />held in March, <br />1. To purchase approximately 58 acres of land, <br />the so-called "Willar ds Woods", situated on the <br />westerly side of North Street. This land was ac- <br />quired for playground, recreational, and other public <br />purposes. <br />2. To accept from DeVries Construction Company, <br />Inc. a grant of land in East Lexington, situated <br />southeasterly of the Sun Valley development and <br />northeasterly of Lowell and Summer Streets Though <br />not yet acquired, it is the Board's understanding <br />that this section of land is being given to the Town <br />for playground, recreational, and other public pur- <br />poses. <br />WZ <br />At the special town meeting in May, 195e the <br />Town voted also to purchase approximately 28J acres <br />of land situated on the southwesterly side of Middleby <br />Road. The purpose of this acquisition was to secure <br />this land for street, school, playground, recreational <br />' and other public purposes. <br />Options for additional areas are being negotiated <br />as details are developed of the Director's recommenda- <br />tions for a comprehensive system of public open spaces <br />for recreation. Preliminary plans for this system <br />were reviewed this past year by officials of the State <br />Department of Natural Resources. Commenting in a <br />memorandum to the Chief of Recreation, Division of <br />Forests and Parks, of said department, the consultant <br />to the division wrote: <br />"I am most agreeably surprised by the scope and <br />nature of this proposed park system program, as out- <br />lined to me by the Planning Board's Director, within <br />the size of a town like Lexington. I know of no such <br />town that has even conceived in such intelligent and <br />far sighted terms of what I would call a combination <br />conservation and recreation program - not only for the <br />benefit of today's population but especially for the <br />generations to come." <br />After receiving verbal assurance from a State <br />official that the widening of the travelled way along <br />' Route 128 would take place within the existing right <br />of way, the planning staff prepared detailed plans for <br />the development of the W.John Baskin playground. It <br />appears now that there will be definitely a widening <br />RECREATION <br />