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PLAMING•BOARu MEETING February 24, 1964 A regular meeting of the Lexington Planning Board was held on Monday evening, February 24, 1964 in its office, Town Office Building, at 8:00 p.m. Present were Chairman Meyer, members Greeley and Mabee, and the secretary, Mrs. Macomber. Mr. Bryson came later in the evening. Mr. vonald E. Nickerson, Chairman of the Board of Appeals, at the request of the Planning Board met to discuss procedure on notices of hearings to be held by the Board of Appeals. It was the opinion of the Planning Board that they did not have sufficient material in time to make intelligent decisions on some of these petitions. It was hoped some method of accomplishing this might be resolved. BOAtw OF APPEALS NICKEHSON PROPOSED ZONING CHANGE DAVENPORT Mr. Nickerson stated that the problem was that when the application is made out hardly anybody gives enough informa- tion. The inspection of the premises is left until the weekend before the hearing principally because all material to come in is almost never there much before that time. However, Mr. Nickerson wishes to cooperate in any way possible and will dis- cuss the matter with the Board of Appeals and see if this can be worked out in a satisfactory manner. Mr. Nickerson left at 8:45 o'clock. At this time the Board met with Mr. Norman Richards, Atty. for Mr. Davenport; Mr. Russell Davenport, Mr. Harxy Berglund; and two representatives of the Infield Realty Co., Mr. Roger Frissore of Watertown and Mr. Joseph Simone of Win- throp. Mr. Richards stated that they wished to acquaint the Board with the situation before the hearing. One of the points was that if the C.C. & F. property can be acquired it would be possible to eliminate Hinchey Road and other arrange- ments made for a road. Another was that it seems quite certain there will be a motel a little further down on Bedford Street and it did not seem wise to have two motels in such close proximity. They also felt the neighbors in the area preferred apartments to the motel. Mr. Meyer said he didn't see why they thought this would be a good place for apartments, surrounded as it is by high tension wires, town cemetery, town dump, and State armory, and except for a very few houses there are no residences with residential facilities near by, such as stores, schools, etc. Mr. Richards replied that there are a lot of residen- ces on Winter Street. He also said there was not much else one could do with the land for with the required setback there ' was not much left. Mr. Meyer replied that there would be two good industrial lots with plenty of frontage. Mr. Meyer in- formed the group that the Board had prepared an unfavorable BOAtw OF APPEALS NICKEHSON PROPOSED ZONING CHANGE DAVENPORT