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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, oualified
to vote in elections and in town affairs , to meet in their respective
voting places in said town,
Precinct, One , Emerson Hall: Precinct Two, Three and Four, Cary
Memorial Hall, on MUNDAY, the Fifth Day of March. A. D. 1934 at six
o' clock, A. M. , then and there to act on the following articles :
Article 1. To choose by ballot the following town officers :
One Town Clerk for the term of one year,
One Selectman for the term of three years ,
One Town Treasurer for the term of one year,
One Collector of Taxes for the term of one year,
One Cemetery Commissioner for the term of three years,
One Moderator for the term of one year,
One Member of the School Committee for the term of three years,
Two Constables for the term of one year,
Two Members of the Planning Board for the term of three years,
One Trustee of Public Trusts for the term of six years,
Seventeen Town Meeting Members in each Precinct for the term of three years ,
One Town Meeting Member in Precinct Two for the term of two years ,
Two Town Meeting Members in Precinct Three for the term of one year,
One Town Meeting Member in Precinct Four for the term of one year,
The polls will be open at 6:00 A. M. and will remain open until
8 :00 P . M.
You are also to notify the inhabitants aforesaid to meet in
Cary Memorial Hall insaid Town on Monday, the nineteenth day of
March , 1934, at 8 :00 P . M. , at which time and place the following
articles are to be acted upon and determined exclusively by the town
meeting members, in accordance with Chapter 215 of the Acts of 1929
and subject to the referendum provided for by section eight of said
chapter .
Article 2 . To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers or of
any Committee of the Town, and to appoint other Committees .
Article 3. To choose such Town Officers as are required by law and
are usually chosen by nomination.
Article 4. To see if the Town will authorize their Treasurer, under
the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money for any necessary
purposes, in anticipation of revenue for the current year, the same
to be repaid directly from the proceeds of said revenue, or act in
any manner relating thereto .
Article 5. To see if the Town will make the usual appropriations for
Town expenses for the ensuing year, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
Article 6. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the
Suppression of Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths, in accordance with
Chapter 132, General Laws, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Article 7 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess
an amount of money to be used as a Reserve Fund as provided by
Cha?ter 40, Section 6, General Laws, or take any action relating thereto.
Article 8 . To see if the Town will appropriate funds for the payment.
of pensions to retired members of the Police and Fire Departments ,
under chapter 32, General Laws , or act in any manner relating thereto.
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Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen
to petition the Director of Accounts of the State for an audit for
the year 1934 .
Article 10 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for
the support of a Posture Clinic, to be expended under the direction
of the Board of Health or by a committee appointed by said Board,
or act in any manner relating thereto .
Article 11. To see if the town will vote to appropriate a sum
sufficient to pay the County of Middlesex, as required by law,
the town' s share of the net cost of the care, maintenance , and
repair of the Middlesex County Tuberculosis Hospital, and for the
Town' s share of the expense under the provisions of Chanter 331
of the Acts of 1933, which provides for the settlement of certain
claims of the Commonwealth against the Middlesex County Tuberculosis
Hospital District, including interest or discount on temporary notes
issued therefor, as assessed in accordance with the provisions cf
Charter 111 of the General Laws , and Acts in amendment thereof,
and in addition thereto, or take any anction in relation thereto .
Article 12 . To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of
$1716 . 16 to the Cary Memorial Library Account , the same being the
sum received from the Middlesex County for dog fees .
Article 13. To see if the Town will authorize or ratify a contract
with the United States or its proper officials for a grant for
construction of a trunk line sewer in East Lexington and all action
by the Selectmen or other town officials with relation thereto .
Article 14. To see if the Town will authorize or ratify a contract
with the United States or its proper officials for a grant for
construction of a water standpipe and all action by the Selectmen
or other town officials with relation thereto .
Article 15. To receive a report of Metcalf and Eddy, Engineer,s
with respect to surface drainage in East Lexington and to adopt
any or all of their recommendations and to appropriate the sum
of 5,000. to pay for the cost of completing the survey of the
drainage areas of the town as authorized by the town at a town
meeting held October 16, 1933 .
Article 16. To see if the town will make provjsion for the dis-
posal of surface drainage in East Lexington by the construction
of drains or conduits, or diversion or relocation of brooks, and
for that purpose take lands , or easements by Eminent Domain, and
provide for the Payment therefor by the issue of bonds or notes
or by direct apPropriation.
Article 17 . To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen
to replace the bridge over Vine Brook in Sherman Street with a
culvert, and vote to appropriate funds therefore.
Article 18 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for
the construction of Pleasant Street, from Massachusetts Avenue to
Watertown Street, under Chapter 90 of the General Laws .
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to install water mains
in the following unaccepted streets, subject to the assessment of
betterments and to take by eminent domain the necessary easement
therefor:
Winter Street, from Bedford Street a distance of
approximately 1050 feet;
Hillcrest Avenue, from Fottler Avenue a distance of
approximately 1000 feet;
and provide funds for said installation by direct anpropriaUon, or
by transfer from other funds .
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Article 20 . To see if the Town will vote to install water mains in
the following street , and in such other streets as the Selectmen
shall designate in accordance with authority contained in the
By-Laws of the Town:
Hill Street, from the Lexington Golf Club to
Sargent Street a distance of approximately 1600 feet;
and provide funds for said installation by direct appropriation or
by transfer from other funds.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to install water mains in
the following unaccepted streets subject to the assessment of better-
ments and to take by eminent domain the necessary easements therefore :
Taft Avenue from Massachusetts Avenue to- Daniels Street,
,approximately 890 feet:
Cherry Street from Taft Avenue in a northerly direction
approximately 160 feet;
Cary Street , from Taft Avenue in a northerly direction
approximately 230 feet :
and provide funds for said installation by direct appropriation or
by transfer from other funds .
Article 22 . To. see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen
to install sewers in- the following accepted and unaccepted streets
subject to the assessment of betterments , and to take by eminent
domain the necessary easements therefor:
Bow Street, from Tr ak Line Sewer to Theresa Avenue a
distance of approximately 476 feet;
Cliffe Avenue from Bow Street a distance of approximately
440 feet northerly;
Theresa Avenue from Bow Street a distance of approximately
250 feet westerly;
and provide funds for said installation by direct appropriation or
by transfer from other funds .
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer,
with the approval of the Selectmen, to extend as much as is
necessary of the revenue loans of 1934 for a period not to exceed
six months beyond the maximum term provided by law for an original
revenue loan, under authority of and in accordance with the
provisions of Chapter 3 of the Acts of 1933, or take any action
relative thereto.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town
Treasurer, with the approval of the Selec Lmen, to refund any or
all of the revenue notes issued in anticipation of the revenue of.
the year 1934, in accordance with the provisions of Section 17,
Chapter 44, General Laws ; any debt so incurred to be paid from the
revenue of the year 1934.
Article 25. To see if the town will vote to authorize the School
Committee to make expenditures for providing additional school
accommodations for the Junior High School and Senior High School;
appropriate money for this purpose by issue of bonds or notes , or
by direct appropriation, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Article 26 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money' to
reimburse the Water Department for materials, equipment and labor
furnished to the Highway Department during the years 1929 to 1933
inclusive.
Art-cle 27 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate funds for
the payment of a bill due to Walter G. Black for repairs to the
Public Works Dept . Building the same to be paid to the Water Department.
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Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money
for the unpaid bills for the year 1933 of the following accounts :
Assessor ' s Department
Fire Derartment
Health Department
Highway Department
Parks & Play7rounds
Police Department
Planning Board
Public Welfare Department (not including undetermined
amounts due other Cities
and Towns )
Public Works Building - Operation
School Department
Selectmen ' s Department
Snow Removal •
Soldiers R,lief
Town Offices & Cary Memorial Building,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Article 29 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for
the installation of ten new fire alarm boxea and the replacement
of ten fire alarm boxes with boxes of the lates type .
Article 30 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate funds to
repair the trunk line sewer installed in 1915.
Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town
way or accept the lay out of as a .town way, Blake Road, from Simonds
Road to Eaton Road, a distance of approximately 210 feet, as laid
out by the Selectmen, under the Betterment Act, and shown upon
a certain plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated
February 19, 1934, and to take by eminent domain the necessary
easement therefore , and appropriate money for the construction
of said street, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Article 32. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town
way or accept the lay out of as a town way, Eaton Road from Bertwell
Road to Blake Road a distance of approximately 792 feet, as laid
out by the Selectmen, under the Betterment Act, and shown upon a
certain plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated
February 19, 1934, and to take by eminent domain the necessary
easement therefore, and appropriate money for the construction of
said street, or act in any' manner relating thereto .
Article 33. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town
way or accept the lay out of as a town way, Gleason Road, from
Simonds Road to Williams Road, a distance of approximately 658 feet,
as laid out by the Selectmen, under the Betterment Act, and shown
upon a certain plan on file intheoffice of the Town Clerk, dated
February 19, 1934, and to take by eminent domain the necessary
easement therefore, and appropriate money for the construction
of said street, or act in •any manner relating thereto.
Article 34. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town
way or accept the lay out of as a town way, Valley Road, from
Bedford Street a distance of approximately 150 feet, as laid out
by the Selectmen, under the Betterment Act , and shown upon a certain
plan on file in t' 'e office of the Town Clerk, dated February 12, 1934.
and appropriate money for the construction of said street, or act
in any manner relating thereto.
Article 35 . To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town
way or accept the lay out of as a town way, Fletcher Avenue, from
Woburn Street a distance of approximately 1500 feet, as laid out
by the Selectmen, under the Betterment Act , and shown upon a cer-
tain plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated February
12, 1934, and to take by eminent domain the necessary easement
therefore, and appropriate money for the construction of said
street, or act in any manner relating thereto.
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Article 36 . To see if the Town will vote to authorize the
appointment of a committee empowered to select a Permanent
location for the German Field Piece which was given to the Town
through the efforts of Hallie C. Blake , and which was duly
accepted by the Town at a Town Meeting held April 27, 1931;
sach committee to have three members of which one shall be a
member of the Stanley Hill Post No. 38, American Legion.
Article 37 . To see if the Town will add to the North Lexington
Playground the ]and acquired by the Town by tax title and
described as follows :
Land formerly of Joseph Whitlock, Being
lot number 3, in Block numbered 70, fronting
on Willow Street, on a plan of lots of Mark
C . Meagher, surveyed by E. A. W. Hammett, C .E. ,
and recorded in the southern district of
Middlesex County, Registry of Deeds, Book 77 ,
Page 24, and dated 1892 .
Land formerly of Thomas W. Joy
Being lots numbered 4 and 5, in block number
70, fronting on Willow Street, on a plan of
lots of Mark C . Meagher, surveyed by E. A. W.
Hammett, C . E. , and recorded in the southern
district of Middlesex County, Registry of Deeds ,
Book 77 , and dated. 1892.
Land formerly of Ellen Keating
Being lots numbered 6, 7 , and 8 in block number
70, fronting on Willow Street, on a plan of lots
of Mark C . Meagher , surveyed by E. A. W. Hammett,
C . E. , and recorded in the southern district of
Middlesex County, Registry of Deeds, Book 77 , and
dated 1892. Tan.z Title recorded April 1, 1915,
Book 3957 , Page 426.
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Article 38. To see if the Town will amend the Zoning By-Law
and Map by adopting any or all of the following amendments
thereto:
( a) By substituting for Section 3, C . 1. Districts ,
Article 17, the following:
"17 . Upon the northerly side of Massachusetts Avenue
beginning at Vine Brook and extending westerly to the easterly
line of Meriam Street, througoout its length extending northerly
to the Railroad property. "
(b) By substituting for Section 3, C . 1. Districts,
Article 18, the following:
"18. Upon the scutHerly side of Massacusetts Avenue
beginning at the westerly line of Wallis Court and extending
westerly to a point opposite the easterly line of Meriam Street,
and of a depth of 100 feet from the southerly line of Massachusetts
avenue, throughout.
( c ) By adding to Section 4, C . 1. Districts, Paragraph 2,
after the word, "stones" , t....hew-e-rd, "salesrooms" ; so that the
same will read as follows :
"2 . Retail stores , salesrooms, and shops for custom work
or the making only of articles to be sold at retail on the
premises . "
( d) By substituting for Section 4, C . 1. Districts,
Paragraph. 6 ( c ) the following :
" ( c ) Public garages , automobile repair-shops, storage-
battery service-stations, retail gasoline or oil stations ,
greasing-stations or any of their appurtenances or accessory uses ;
except that none of the foregoing, nor any driveway for the entrance
or exit of automobiles in connection therewith, shall hereafter be
located so that any part thereof is within fifty ( 50) feet of any
residence district , or within three hundred ( 300) feet of the
property used by any public or private school, public library,
church, hall of public assembly, historical building, monument,
or museum, playground, or institution for tae sick, the age k or
dependent, or for children under sixteen years of age . Every
filling-station structure , pump, or greasing-stand shall hereafter
be set back not less than twenty ( 20 ) feet from the established
street line , and no filling shall be done except to cars standing
on the property of the filling-station ."
( e ) By adding to Section 4, C . 1. Districts, Paragraph 6
. ( e ) after the word "depots" , the words "public stables", so that
the same will read:
" (e) Retail dealers in ice , grain, fuel, lumber and structural
materials , milk depots, public stables, and other comraercial non-
manufacturing uses not hereinbefore snecified. "
( f) By substituting for Section 10 the following :
"SECTION 10. NON-CONFORMING USES . Any use or building
non-conforming on May 2, 1924, at the time of adoption of the
original Lexington Zoning By-Law, may be continued for the same
purpose or for purposes not substantially different; any such
building may be repaired or structurally altered but shall not be
rebuilt if destroyed to the extent of 90% of its insurable value ;
no such use or building shall be extended or enlarged nor, if
discontinued for a substantial period of time , shall such use be
resumed except subject to the provisions of Section 9."
( g) By substituting for Section 16, the following:
"Section 16 . There shall be a Board of ApPeals of five
members who shall be appointed b7 the Selectmen for terms of five
years each, the term of one appointee to expire each year. The
terms of the members of the Board first appointed after the adoption
of this by-law shall expire in such order as the Selectmen shall
designate . The Selectmen shall also appoint annually two associate
members of the Board of Appeals one or both of whom may be designated
by the Selectmen from time to time to take the place of a regular
member or members of the Board of Appeals as to cases arising under
this by-law in case of vacancy, inability to act or interest . "
(h) By substituting for Section 17 the following :
"Section 17 . AMENDMENTS. Amendments to thi By-law may
be proposed by the Planning Board , by vote of the Town Meeting or
by a petition signed b7 owners of 50 oer cent in valuation of the
property designated by the Planning Board as affected by the
Proposed amendmendment ; except that no proposed amendment which
has been acted upon by vote of the Town Meeting shall be proposed
again by petition in substantially the same form within one year
of such action. The Planning Board shall hold a public hearing
for consideration of each amendment so proposed, notice of which
shall be published in a newspaper published in the Town and mailed
to such interested parties as the Board shall designate, fourteen
days at least before the date fixed for such hearing. No
amendment shall be voted upon by the Town until after the Planning
Board has submitted a final report thereon with recommendations to
the Town Meeting. "
And you are directed to serve this Warrant seven days at
least before the time of said meeting:as provided in the By-Laws
of the Town.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return on this Warrant, with
your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk , on or before the time
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of said meeting .
Given under oar hands, at Lexington this twentieth day of
February, A.D. , 1934 .
Robert P . Trask SETRCTMEN
John E. Giicreast
Charles E.
Ferguson CF
Daniel J . O' Connell
John A. Lyons LEXINGTON
February 24, 1934
To the Town Clerk,
I have notified the inhabitants of Lexington by posting
Printed copies of the foregoing Warrant inthePost Office, in
the vestibule of the Town Office Building and six other public
places in the Town, and by mailing a printed copy of the same
to every registered voter in the Town nine days before the
time of said meeting.
Attest :
Patrick J. Maguire
Constable of Lexington.