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August 60, 1937 ' Present:- Messrs. Ellis, Ferguson, Greeley, Kraetzer and Kimball Several owners of property in the vicinity of Marrett Road and Spring Street accepted the Boards invitation to dis- cuss the proposed Board of Survey street. A plan prepared by the Town Engineer dated August 6, 1937 entitled "Development at Marrett Road and Spring Street" was explained and comments requested. A majority registered opposition to extending Outlook Drive through to Marrett Road explaining that they had located on dead end streets to avoid the hazards of through traffic and expressed fear that it would become an approach to the Reservoir district thus becoming dangerous to the children in the neighborhood. A letter was received from the Watertown Co -Operative Bank as owners of lots No. 25 and 70 on Outlook Drive, expressing approval of the extension and offering to pay their share of costs. (Note: The bank property does not abut on the extension.) The owners of the lot on the easterly corner were approved to the location of the intersection of the proposed street and Outlook -Drive on the grounds that it included part of their property. Mrs. Edith Smith was unable Development to be present and reserved her comments. at Marrett The representatives of the Home Owners Bank had an Rd, & Spring erroneous opinion that their lot could be divided into fifty Street ' foot frontages but registered no opposition to the layout proposed. Except as above noted, there was general approval of the plan as submitted. It was pointed out that a street layout under the Board of Survey Act was simply the description of a proposed way and that such a street might not be actually built for a consider- able time. It simply enables the property owners to lot up their land on the basis of probable later developments and to work toward the mutual advantage of all concerned. The Town cannot lay water or sewer in streets unless they be Board of Survey or accepted streets and a building permit cannot be given for a dwelling not fronting on a street unless it has an approach street established under the Board of Survey Act. This meeting was dissolved at 8:30 P. M. in favor of a hearing on a proposed amendment to the Zoning By -Law proposed by H. Irving Currier. Detail report attached. At the conclusion of the hearing, the Board reconvened - and after discussion and vote, the clerk was directed to pre Lowell & pare a report and favorable recommendation on the amendment Woburn Sts, provided a formal easement covering building lines at the four corners, as mutually agreed upon, had been received. It was voted to hold hearings on the amendments cover- ' ing the new map and the change in description of the C.l Zone By -Laws at the Carbarn property at 8:00 and 8:10 P. M.,Thursday, Sept. 2, 1937. The meeting adjourned at 10:15 P.M. Re ectfully submitted, Clerk