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PLANNING BOARD MEETING <br />March 20, 1935 <br />A regular meeting of the Planning Board was held in the <br />Conference Room of the Town Office Building on Wednesday, <br />March 20, 1935, at 9:00 P. M. Messrs. Duffy, Ellis, Kimball, <br />Robinson, Sellars and Greeley were present. <br />Preceding the meeting, the Board met with Messrs. Trask, <br />Cosgrove and Garrity. Matters in regard to Watertown Street Parks <br />and the Kinneen property were discussed. <br />After the meeting was called to order, the minutes of <br />the meetings of March 6 and March 13 were read and approved. <br />Mr. Greeley reported that he had informed Mr. Kelly, by Kelly <br />word of mouth, that the Board would not put the motion for <br />his amendment before the Town Meeting. <br />After some discussion of the Watertown Street layout, <br />and of the comparative merits of the straight and the crooked <br />but widened proposals, Mr. Robinson moved that the Clerk send <br />the following opinion of the Board to the Board of Selectmen:- <br />Voted:- That while the Planning Board will not oppose <br />the acceptance of the layout of Watertown Street proposed by Watertown <br />State and County officials to the extent of jeopardizing some <br />reconstruction of Watertown Street in the near future, it Street <br />' nevertheless reaffirms its recommendations, made to the Board <br />of Selectmen last November, in favor of an approximately <br />straight layout from the vicinity of Hatch's Pond to the top <br />of the hill at the Belmont -Lexington line. <br />The vote was unanimously passed. <br />The question of parking in the center of the Town was <br />brought up, reference being made to the recent editorial in <br />the Lexington Minute -Man, Mr. Kimball had prepared a letter <br />to the Board of Selectmen recommending that they have a study Parking <br />made of existing conditions, by E. R. A. labor, in coopera- <br />tion with the Planning Board. After making some changes, it <br />was voted that the Clerk should send this letter to the <br />Selectmen. <br />A letter was read from Mr. Custance, of the Lexington <br />Better Housing Campaign, in regard to apartment zones in the Apartment <br />Town. The Clerk was requested to acknowledge the letter, Zone <br />stating that the Board would consider the matter at a later <br />meeting. <br />The meeting was adjourned at 11:00 P. M. <br />Respectfully submitted, <br />Roland B. Greeley (Signed) <br />Clerk <br />