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• Ul 16,5 SELECTMEN'S MEETING May 19, 1941 A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building on Monday, May 19 1941 at 7:30 P. M. Chairman Giroux, Messrs. Potter, Rowse, Locke and Sarano were present. The Clerk was also present. At 7:30 P. M. hearing was declared open upon the petition of the Lexington Homes, Inc. for the approval of the Board of Survey of a plan of Briggs Road in the Lexington Country Club Estates Development. Mr. Norman L. Knipe, Jr. represented the Lexington Homes Inc. Mrs. Mary D. Hatch, Mr. S. R. Wright- ington, Messrs. Cosgrove and Paxton were present. The notice Briggs of the hearing was ready by the Chairman. Road Mr. Knipe said that his company has designed Briggs hearing Road and it would like to proceed to build it so that it could go ahead and construct houses. The Chairman asked if it would be wise to take an easement for a future sewer now and Mr. Cosgrove said that the construction of any sewer would be so far in the future that it would be very difficult to engineer one. Mr. Paxton said that he agreed with Mr. Cosgrove. Mr. Wrightington informed the Board that he was pepresent- ing Mrs. Hatch in a private capacity. Mr. Knipe presented the agreements which Mr. Wrightington said he had drawn up and ap- proved. The Chairman read a letter from the Planning Board recommending the approval of the Briggs Road layout. He also read a letter from the Town Engineer stating that Briggs Road had been checked and found to be satisfactory according to engineering and lotting requirements and also for future development of adjacent areas. The letter said that the necessary easements had been set aside for the discharge of storm water which would otherwise be pocketed at the circular end of Briggs Road. The group retired at 7:45 P. M. Upon motion of Mr. Potter, seconded by Mr. Locke, it was unanimously VOTED: That the Board of Selectmen, acting as a Board of Survey, approve the layout of Briggs Road in the Lexington Country Club Estates as shown on a plan entitled "Plan and Profile of Briggs Road in Lexington, Mass. Scales, Hor. 1" - 4' October 23, 1940, Albert A. Miller, C. E. Lexington, Mass." and as shown on a second plan entitled "Plan of Section No. 1 Lexington Country Club Estates, Lexington, Mass. Scale: 1" n 40' October 23, 1940, Albert A. Miller, C. E., Lexington, Mass. Upon motion of Mr. Potter, seconded by Mr. Locke, it was voted that the agreement between the Town of Lexington and the Lexington Homes, Inc., dated May 19, 1941, upon which the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland was surety, be approved and signed.