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PLANNING BOAF.D MRING I February 26, 1957 The Lexine;ton Planning Board held a public hearing on Tuesday, r'ebruary 26, 1057 at 8:00 p.m. in Estabrook Hall, Cary emorial Building, on the question of changing; the names of the following streets; namely: (a) to change to Cooke Street the name Cary Street, an accepted way extending from Taft Avenue to Charles Street. (b) `o change to r'rances Road the name Qat Avenue, an unaccepted way extending from Eastern .venue to Deering "Avera: e. (c) '1'o change to Jay Street the name Oak Terrace, a partly accepted and partly unaccepted way exteridin"c: fro, Oak Street to Hillside Street. (d) To change to Davis Road the name "Jilliam Avenue, an unaccepted way extending from iioreland Avenue to Oakland Avenue. e) To change to Servis Road the flume Oakland Avenue, an unac- cepted ,fray extending southwesterly from Swan Lane. (f) To change to Camden Street the name Smyth Street an unaccepted way extending from Charles Street to Sutherland Avenue. (g) To change to Tidd Street the name Hillcrest Street, a partly accepted and partly unaccepted way extending easterly from 'Winter Street. (h) Zo change to king Street the name Inde- pendence :'_orf , an unaccepted ,•ray exteriding northerly from r -ern Street. ' Present oiere Chairman :{athav:ay, i essrs. Abbott, Adams, Burnell and Grindle; "r. Snow, Planning Director; mfrs, Baker, secretary; and twenty-five citizens. Chairman .Iathatea.y opened the hearin-° by reading; the notice of the hearii-7 as it was sent to all property owners. orlon^ the streets involved and as was duly advertised in r'ebruary 14, 10,57 issue of the Lexinjzton Tiinute-man. He then explained that there are quite a number of conflicts in Lexington street names which could cause a great deal of inconvenience in case of fire, -police and medical aid and in the delivery of mail. He said that in keeping with one of its policie , the Planning Board recommends each year the elimination of some cf the conflicting names, adding that the Board felt very strongly that the matter of safety was involved in name chances :proposed this year. He also said that in a,..l cases where th :re were similar names, the Board selected for the dame changes the streets having the fewer number of houses - or in some cases, n o houses - as it was thought that this would cause the minimum of inconvenience. Chairman Hathaway concluded his introductory remarks by stating that chanes of street names do not impose burdens in regard to deeds or mortgages and that this matter can be attended to in a subsequent transferral of property. ' (a) In regard to proposal to change to Cooke Street the name Cary Street, :lir. Hathaway noted that 11 families re- sided along Cary Street i%,hile 34 Resided along Cary Avenue.