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PLANNING BOARD MEETING ' OCTOBER 233, 1939. A meeting of the Planning Board was held at the Town Office Building, October 23rd, 1939, at 7r30 P. M. All members present with the exception of Mr. Kimball. The minutest -of previous meeting were read and approved. The matter of proceedure in subdivision of land according to enabling act provision was re -discussed and Mr. Greeley is to check our recommendations with those in effect in Montclair, N. J., to see if our recommendations can be bettered. Montclair has been operating under conditions similar to ours for nine years. Mr. Fellows and Mr-. Edwards of the Metropolitan Plan- ning of the State met with the Board at 6:00 P.M. and dis- cussed mutual problems until 9:30 P.M. They were able to give us up-to-date information about the circumferential highway and the Lowell Turnpike. Mr. Greeley suggested that the Boards' opinion was that Route 128 might better be run north of the Cambridge Reservoir and the Lowell Turnpike to the south, rather than through the center of Lexington Meadows. Mr. Fellows presented us with several copies of Metropolitan Maps and concentrated statistics. The Clerk was instructed to thank these gentlemen for their courtesies. Mr. Gragg appeared at 9:30 P.M. to confer about a zone change to permit light manufacturing by his concern in approximately an acre of land on Watertown Street near the Belmont line which he thought would necessitate a zone change. He had a thoroughly designed plan for buying land from the Robinson estate, building a small building with all appearances of a house and performing his business' which he says creates no smell, noise, or any nuisance. After lengthy discussion the Board advised him to see first if the Board of Appeals might not permit his use in an R.1 zone, eliminating the necessity for a zone change. Failing in this, to then ask the Board of Appeals if the use would be permitted in some C.1 district which might be satisfactory to Mr. Gragg. In the event neither request was allowed, the Board advised Mr. Gragg to apply for a zone change. Next meeting, November 20, 1939. ' The meeting adjourned at 10:30 P.M. Respectfully_ submitted: ,a i?,c am Clerk. Enabling Act - Chap.211 Route 128 and :.Lowell. Turnpike Gragg re Zone change.