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PLALTiING BOARD MEETING <br />I <br />November 18, 1938 <br />Plannin- Board Meeting was held Friday, November 18, <br />at 8 P.M. Messrs. Greeley, Ellis, Ferguson and Nickerson <br />were present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read <br />and approved. <br />Mr. Ferguson, Chairman of the Lexington Meadows Project, <br />was advised that the bill covering this project should be Meeting <br />submitted to the Legislature not later than December 10. <br />In this connection, a field meeting of the Planning Board <br />was arranged for Saturday, November 26 at 2:30 P.M., members <br />to meet at the Town Office Building.at that time. <br />Sign sizes were discussed. Moved and seconded that the Sign <br />Clerk be instructed to draw up a section covering these sizes <br />sizes and submit same to the Board for discussion. Carried <br />unanimously. <br />The Clerk was instructed to ask the F. 71. Dodge Co. if <br />it would notify Mr. Longbottom when construction projects <br />were being ,proposed in this tom . <br />The meetinzJ adjourned at 8:30 to the Selectmen's Office <br />where it met Mr: 71. H. Knodell of the Edison Co. and Mr. <br />W. D. Dunn of the Telephone Co., who came to the meeting <br />at the Planning Board's request to give the Board inform- <br />ation regarding telephone and electric service poles, which <br />had been, or would be installed on the Concord Turnpike. <br />Following are the items which were discussed and the rep- <br />resentatives' opinions concerning same: <br />1. The Edison Co. and the Telephone Co: use poles <br />jointly wherever possible, in which case one company main- <br />tains .each pole and the other company rents from it. <br />Underground conduits are not used jointly. <br />2. The representatives were asked to fomulate their <br />policy for service on the highway and it did so as follows: <br />Underground conduits will not be used on account <br />of the expense. Poles will be used, and the endeavor at <br />present is to locate them on the south side, running cross <br />wires to occasional poles'on the north side where required. <br />At present 55 are located on the south side and 14 on the <br />north side. <br />Constr. <br />projects <br />Discussion <br />re <br />poles. on <br />Concord <br />Turnpilm <br />3. Average pole distances are 125 feet. The service <br />companies have been urged to extend this limit to a so-called <br />rural distance which allows 200 feet as a maximum distance <br />between poles. <br />4. Height of poles will be a minimum of 29 feet above <br />the ground, and average of 35 feet above the ground, this <br />