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PLANNING BOARD MEETING ' April 23,1956 A regular meeting of the Planning Board was held in the Town Engineer's Room, Town Office Building, on Monday, April 23, 1956 at 7:30 p.m. Present were Chair- man Adams, Members Abbott, Burnell, Grindle, and Hath- away; Mr. Snow, Planning Director, and the secretary. Mr. Abbott was present from 7:45 p.m.and Mr. Jaquith from 8:45 p.m. until the end of the meeting. Approved were the following bills presented for payment: Massachusetts Federation of Planning Boards, dues --$20.00; Anne H. Milliken, secretarial services -- $6.25 - Approved also were the minutes of the January 3 and March 20, 1956 meetings. Mr. Snow suggested that the Board have a closed meeting every other week for the purpose of discussing and formulating policy on various planning matters and ' that a notice be put in the paper mentioning that pub- lic attendance at Planning Board meetings would be scheduled only for every other week. The following Form A application was taken under consideration for determination of Planning Board juris- diction: #56-27, submitted on April 17, 1956 by A. Raymond and Vera M. Carchia; plan entitled "Plan of Land in Lex- ington Mass.," Scale 1" = 401, dated April 6, 1956, A. R. Carchia. It was moved, seconded and unanimously VOTED: that the plan accompanying Application #56-27 be signed bearing the endorsement "Lexington Planning Board approval not re- quired under subdivision control law." Chairman Adams brought to the attention of the Board the fact that Mr. Richard Soule had occupied the former Unitarian parsonage on Hancock Street and had erected a pi gn of large proportions advertising his business. These appeared to be a deliberate violation ' of the zoning by-law. It was asked if in an attempt to enforce the law, the Board should register in writing its disapproval of the business being conducted as well as the erection of the sign advertising the same in an BILLS MINUTES CLOSED MEETINGS FORM A ZONING VIOLATION