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D. Grosso Board of Survey .Hearing SELECTMEN'S MMETING May 26, 1941. A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held In the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building on Monday evening, May 26, 1941 at 7:30 P. M. Chairman Giroux, Messrs. Potter, Rowse, Locke and Sarano were present. The Clerk was also present. The Clerk was instructed to ask the Town Accountant what the situation was in regard to loans taken, in anti- cipation of reimbursement by the Federal Government on P.W.A. projects. At 7:30 P. M. hearing was declared open by the Board of Survey on petition of D. Grosso for the approval of an existing graveled driveway off Woburn Street between #195 and #205. Mr. D. Grosso, Mr. Daniel J. O'Connell,his attorney, Mr. James M. Etter, Supt. of Public Works Paxton, Town Engineer Cosgrove, and Mr. Edward W. Kimball of the Planning Board were present. Three members of the Semonian family appeared at 8:45 P. M. Notice of the hearing was read by the Chairman. Mr. O'Connell said that the applicant proposed to erect a home on land owned by him in the rear of what was originally the Harlow Estate, and which originally comprised what is now the Semonian property and the house beside it toward Lexington Center. The Fogg house was al- so a part of this estate. The land runs back in the meadow to a swamp that has never been useful to any purpose. It could not be built upon. Mr. Harlow converted his stable into a bungalow which Mr. Etter now lives in. He built a driveway containing 30 feet through the property to serve the Etter place for highway purposes. Some time after that, Mr. Grosso acquired the land in the rear of the Etter property and his land runds down to the Munroe land in a swamp. The land is wet to perhaps a ten foot depth and has never been used for any purpose. Mr. O'Connell said he did not believe Mr. Grosso should be required to acquire from Semonian brothers 10 feet of land to be added to the driveway, merely in order that he might build a house, as he would be improving the Semonian property. Mr. Grosso simply wants egress for and access to the land in, the rear of the Etter house. The Chairman asked if the driveway would be 30 feet to the end of the Etter land and 40 feet from there past the Grosso land and Mr. O'Connel replied in the affirma- tive. The Chairman asked if the Semonians were willing to sell the 10 foot strip and Mr. O'Connell said that they were., at a price, and then they could build on the driveway. 0