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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1928-06-28-STM-WARRANT 176 CD TOWN WARRANT Zc COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS . MIDDLESEX , SS . To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington , in said County , Greeting : In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Lexington , qual - fied to vote in elections and in town affairs to meet in the Town all , in said Lexington , on THURSDAY , THE TWENTY- EIGHTH DAY OF JUNE , 1928 , at eight P . M . , Art . 1 . To receive the report of any Board of Town officers or of any Committee of the Town , and to appoint other Committees . Art . 2 . To see if the town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to enter into a contract to collect garbage in sections df the town to be determined by them or to authorize the Selectmen to enter into a contract with persons or corporations for town collection of garbage in sections to be designated by the Selectmen , appropriate money for the cost of such collection , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 3 . To see if the town will vote to construct sewers in the following streets : Glen Road , from Upland Road to Oakland Street ; Eliot Road , fromMassachusetts Avenue through land of James P . Munroe and Sumner Robinson , Trustees , to Tavern Lane , thence in Tavern Lane to Eliot Road , and in Eliot Road from Pelham Road to Warren Street ; Hastings Road from Lincoln Street to Massachusetts Avenue and Massa- chusetts Avenue from Hastings Road to Audubon Road; Waltham Street , from the north branch of Vine Brook near Forest Street in a south- Westerly direction approximately 950 feet , and appropriate money for said construction , issue bonds or notes therefore , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 4 . To see if the town will notify the City of Waltham and the Commissioner of Mental Diseases on or before December first in the current year that it does not desire to avail itself of the opportunity of connecting the sewers of that area of Lexington in the valby of Beaver Brook as described in Sec . 1 of Chapter 372 of the Acts of 1928 with the sewers provided for in the said chapter , or take any other action with respect to said statute or the provisions for the Town of Lexington therein contained . Art . 5 . To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way or to accept the layout of York Street from Meriam Street a distance of approximately 700 feet , all as laid out by the Selectmen , and shown upon plan on file in the Town Clerk ' s Office , appropriate money , by transfer from other accounts , by issue of bonds or notes or by direct appropriation . Art . 6 . To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way or to accept the layout of Simonds Road , from Bedford Street to Burlington Street , all as lai$ out by the Selectmen , and shown upon plan on file in the Town Clerk ' s Off ice , appropriate money, by transfer from other accounts , by issue of bonds or notes or by direct appropriation . Art . 7 . To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way or to accept the layout of Prospect Hill Road from Marrett Road to Wachusett Drive , all as laid out by the Selectmen , and shown upon plan on file in the Town Clem Is Office , appropriate money , by transfer from other accounts , by issue of bonds or notes or by direct appropriation . Art . 8 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $ 1500 to continue work on the Block Plan . 11 177 Art . 9 . To wee if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the following accounts : Forest Fires , Law Department , Soldier ' s Relief , Sidewalks , Unclassified , Moving Fire Alarm Apparatus , Rental Town Hall sheds , Proportionate taxes Town Hall property , Town Hall Account . Art . 10 . To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to increase the candle power of the street lights on Massachusetts Avenue from Wobutin Street to Clarke Street and appropriate additional money for the street lighting account , to cover the cost of such increase , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 11 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the use of the Committee appointed under Article 4 of the annual town warrant , to investigate the fire department and water department . Art . 12 . To see if the Town will vote to amend its zoning law to include as an R . 1 district , for single family dwellings , such resi - dential area as is now zoned under R . 2 , for two-family dwellings , bounded by the Playground and its entrance ways , Massachusetts Avenue and Waltham Street . This will include the residential areas upon both sides of Forest Street , Farest Court , unaccepted part of Forest Street , Parker Street , Jackson Court , Clarke Street , Raymond Street , Muzzey Street and Waltham Street Art . 13 . To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to install street lights in Cary Avenue . Art . 14 . To see if the Town will authorize and direct its Board of selectmen to execute , acknowledge and deliver in its name and behalf , a deed running in favor of John E • Hos sfield of said Lexington , releasing to him all its right , title and interest , if any , in a cer- tain parcel of land being lot numbered 14 in Block numbered 18 front - ing on Reed street in said Town , shown on plan of lots of March C . Meagher , said plan recorded in the Southern District of Middlesex County Registry of Deeds , Book 77 and dated 1892 , and being the lot described in a deed of the Town of Lexington to said John E . Hossfield dated March 3 , 1925 recorded with said Deeds Book 4819 , Page 506 which lot said town acquired from its collector of taxes in 1908 ; or act in any other manner relating thereto . Art . 15 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen , to provide for surveys of the water and sewer areas of the town . Hereof , fail not , and make due return of this Warrant , with your doings thereon , to the Town Clerk . on or before the time of said meeting . Given under our hands , at Lexington , this twelfth day of June , A . D . , 1928 . Albert H . Burnham ) Selectmen Francis Chamberlain ) James G . Robertson ) of Theodore A . Custance ) Lexington • ) Lexington , Mass . June 21 , 1928 To the Town Clerk : I have notified the inhabitants of Lexington by posting printed copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Pose Office , in the Vestibule ' of the Town Office Building and in six other public places in the town , and by mailing a printed oopy of the same to every registered voter in the town seven days before the time of said meeting . Attest : James J . Sullivan Constable of Lexington .