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PLANNING BOARD MEETING June 24, 1963 A regular meeting of the Lexington Planning Board was held in its office in the Town Office Building on Monday, June 24, 1963 at 7:50 p.m. Present were Chairman Mabee, mem- bers Campbell, Greeley, and Meyer, and the secretary, Mrs. Macomber. From 7:50 until 8:10 p.m. Mr. William Be Maloney, Treasurer of the Emerson Gardens Realty Corp. met with the Board to discuss his proposal for modifying the approved site plan for the Emerson Gardens garden apartment district on Maple Street. Since meeting with the Planning Board on May 27, said corporation had filed with the Board of Appeals an application, dated JunelO, 1963, Which had been forwarded by letter, dated Junel8, to the Planning Board for consideration. The plans accompanying the application were exhibited for discussion purposes. In discussing the site plan Mr. Maloney stated that no building would be closer to any `other than was origi- nally shown, and that a little parking space had been gained. He also said he was planning to level and remove the 18 -foot sand bank along the common boundary between the trust's land and that of the town of Arlington and would plant the area, thus giving a better outlook from the apart- ments. Mr. Maloney also stated that a strip of land would be left between the ,proposed service road and the Great Meadows boundary, that the service road would have no access except at one point to be designated later, and that access would be used for maintenance and safety purposes only and not as a public way. It was decided to send a letter to the Board of Appeals recommending that the corporation's application be granted but that before taking final action on the matter to refer the site plan to Mr. Snow for review and for a re- port to the Planning Board. At 8:10 Donald D. Wilson of 32 Fern Street not with the Board for the purpose of discussing the map published in the Planning Board's Summary Report Which showed a road through the Wilson farm. The Chairman explained that this was a proposed one-way connector road to Emerson Road to serve the houses in that area. Mr. Wilson stated that this was irreplaceable market garden land. The brook was former- ly used as the source for watering the garden, but of late Years the oil from the road kept washing into the brook and made it unfit for such use. He said that anew water supply was dug, and that the proposed road would go over the spot EMERSON GARDENS REALTY. CORP. BQARD OF APPEALS MSoIII