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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1930-05-19-STM-WARRANT ■ 47) Yin ) i ' ) TOWN WARRANT . 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 , qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs , to meet in the Cary Memorial Building, in sdL d Lexington , on MONDAY, the nineteenth day of May , 1930 at 8 P . M . , then and there to act on the following articles : 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 appropriate additional money for the following accounts : Granolithic sidewalks , Forest Fires , Waltham Street damages , Street Signs , Fire Mbpartment , Lowering Brooks , Town Clerk , and Police Department , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 3 . To consider the further report of the Planning Board on the drainage and development of the Vine Brook water shed and the report thereon of Metcalf & Eddy , Consulting Engineers , dated September 29 , 1928 , a copy of which is on file at the office of the Board of Selectmen and open to public inspection ; and to see if the Town will approve or adopt all or any of the recommendations therein. contained , vote to construct , deepen , enlarge or relocate water ways , drains , sewers , conduits , roads or parks substantially as described therein ; appropriate money therefore by the issue of bonds or notes or by direct appropriation or by transfer from other accounts or by any or all of such methods , or act in any manner in relation thereto . Art . 4 . To see if the Town will appropriate money to deepen , widen , relocate or clear of obstructions Vine Brook below Sheridan Street and to alter and reconstruct the present culvert under East Street . Art . 5 . To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to install a sewer in Winthrop Road extension from the present end of Winthrop Road to Waltham Street , a distance of approximately 1 , 450 feet ; also from a point in Winthrop Road extension near the present south branch of Vine Brook across private lands to Vine Brook Road , a distance of approximately 19 50 feet ; also from Vine * Brook Road across private lands to Mass . Avenue ; from Mass . Avenue across Town property to the railroad; from the railroad across private lands to Sherman Street ; from Sherman Street across private lands to Sheridan Street ; thence along Sheridan Street to a point in Grant Street ; the total distance from Vine Brook Road. to Grant Street , as above described , being approximately 2 , 000 feet ; appropriate money for said construction by direct appropriation , issue of bonds or. notes , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 6 . To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way , or accept the layout of as a town way a portion of Tucker Avenue , from Baker Avenue westerly, as laid out by the Selectmen, and shown upon a certain plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk , appropriate mone therefor by the issuance of bonds or notes or by direct appropriation , or take any action relating thereto . 374 Art . 7 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to cover the expense of printing and publishing the report on Vine Brook Drainage and to cover the Engineering services in connection therewith , as authorizied by the Town Meeting held March 31 , 1930 . Art . 8 . To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate money for the purpose of purchasing a certain lot of land located on the Old County Road near Allen Street known as a portion of the Swenson Brothers Farm contain+ ing approximately eight acres , and erecting thereon a public school building and originally equipping and furnishing the samei, and to provide for such appropriation by the issuance of bonds or notes or by direct appropriation or by any , one or more or all of such methods , or to take any action relating thereto . Art . 9 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the use of the Stanley Hill Post 38 , American Legion , the same to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen for the celebration of the Tercentenary , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 10 . To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to purchase a portion of the land owned by Lois M . and Lillian G . Marshall near the Cary Memorial Library , s ^ id parcel being described as follows : Lot C . bounded south- westerly by land now or formerly of William E . Denham 50 . 85 feet ; northwesterly by land of Town of Lexington 76 . 84 feet ; northeasterly by land of Town of Lexington 49 . 30 feet ; southeasterly by land of the grantors 76 . 09 feet , all as shown on plan entitled , " Plan of Land in Lexington , Mass . , Scale 1 " - 10 ' October 14 , 1929 , E . N . Montague , C . E . , West Acton , Mass . " appropriate money for this purpose by direct appropriation , issue of bonds or notes or otherwise , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 11 . To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $850 . from the Account of Sale of Land to purchase of land of Lois M . and Lillian G . Marshall adjoining the Cary Memorial Library property . Art . 12 . To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way , or accept the layout of as a town way , an extension of Clarke Street , as laid out by the Selectmen , and shown upon a certain plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk , appropriate money for the construction of said street by direct appropriation or by the issue of bonds , notes or otherwise , and provide for the transfer of any unexpended balance to Other construction , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 13 . To see if the Town will vote to amend the Lexington Zoning By-Law and zoning map by changing from an Rel district to a C-1 district the property on the westerly side of Bedford Street from Valley Road and extending northerly along property of Harriette W . Smith . Hereof , fail hot , and make due return of this Warrant , with your doings thereon , to the Town Clerk , on or before the time of said meeting . 375 Given under our hands , at Lexington, this sixth day of May , A . D . , 1930 . Albert H . Burnham Clarence Shannon Selectmen Hallie C ; Blake of Robert P . Trask Lexington . Theodore A . qustance To the Town Clerk : Lexington , Mass . , May 12 , 1930 . I have notified the inhabitants of Lexington by posting printed copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office , in the Vestibule of the Town Office Building and in six other public places in the Town , and by mailing a printed copy of the same to every registered voter in the town seven days before the time of said meeting . Attest : Patrick J . Maguire . Constable of Lexington . 4