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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1934-06-25-STM-WARRANT TOWN WARRANT COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, MIDDLESEX, SS To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexinctor , 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 said Lexington, on Monday, the twenty-fifth day of Jane 1934, at 8 :00 P .M. , then and there to act on the following articles : Article 1. To receive the report of any Boar of Town Officers or of any Committee of the Town, and to appoint cther Committees . Article 2 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the following accounts : Forest Fires ; Welfare Department and Printing of Plumbing By-Laws. Article 3. To see if the Town will authorize the present or any future Board of Selectmen in the name and on behalf of the town to convey to Ernest S. Glawson of Lexington, Massachusetts all the right, title and interest which the Town has by virtue of a tax deed from George W. Sampson, Collector of Taxes for the Town of Lexington to the Town of Lexington dated October 3, 1899, recorded with the Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds in Book 2772, Page 229 , and also by a deed from Byron C. Erle, Collector of Taxes for the Town of Lexington to the Town of Lexington, dated May 15, 1928 , recorded with said Deeds in Book 5232 , Pane 561 and to execute. ; acknowledge and deliver a proper deed, deeds or other documents for that purpose. Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the transfer of the following funds : From School Construction (Adams Addition) - $79.97 to School Construction. High School Addition: From School Construction (Franklin) - $274.50 to School Construction High School Addition: From Waltham Street Damages - $109.00 to Excess and Deficiency Account. or act in any manner relating thereto . Article 5 . To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to furnish a new Town Seal bearing thereon a replica of the Lexington Minute-Man Statue, and appropriate money for the expense of furnishing such seal and reproductions of same . Article 6. To see if the Town will vote or ratify and confirm the action of the Board of Selectmen, acting as a Board of Health, in constructing a sewer in Woburn Street , from the main outlet a distance of approximately 180 feet northeasterly, and appropriate funds for said construction or act in any manner relating thereto. Article 7 . To see if the Town will vote to place in the control of the Board of Selectmen, acting as a Board of Park Commissioners , the following described parcel of land, now a part of the highway the same to be known as "Somerset Road Park" : An elongated parcel of land located entirely within the boundaries of Somerset Road, beginning at a -point about opposite Franklin Road and extending northeast- erly toward Hayes Avenue approximately 250 feet and having a width of about 35 feet. Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the vote 94 C.T1 passed at a Town Meeting, February 10, 1915, which reads as follows : "Voted that the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners is hereby requested, in case the town shall have a sewerage system, to establish, agreeably to the pro- visions of Revised Laws Chapter 49, Sedfon 6, just and equitable charges for the use of the common sewers by persons who enter their particular sewers therein, such annual rental to be in addition to the betterment assessment of fifty cents a running front foot upon their abutting lands ; and that until otherwise voted by the town, the Commissioners are requested to make the rental approximately 25% of the yearly water rates of such persons after making a deduction therefrom representing the water used through lawn or garden hose, but with provision for a minimum yearly charge of three dollars ." or act in any manner relating thereto. . Article 9 . To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way or accept the layout of as a town way, Gleason Road, from Simonds Road to Fuller Road, a distance of aPpro7.ima1y 1200 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 May 29, 1934, and to take by eminent domain the necessary easements therefore, and appropriate money for the construction of said street, or act in any manner relating thereto . Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to grant the use of the auditorium in the Cary Memorial Building without charge six evenings in each year to Camp 3007 , Veterans of Foreign Wars of Lexington. Article 11. To see if the Tow will vote upon petition of Daniel J. O 'Connell to amend the Lexington Zoning By-Law and map by changing from an R. 1. District to a C . 1 District the following described parcel of land: A triangular n,-.rcel of land bounded on the northwest by Fletcher Avenue distant 183.90 feet, on the south- west by Woburn St-eet, distant 320.22 feet, and on the northeast by the Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation right of way distant 317 .30 feet, containing about 27, 994 square feet. Article 12 . To see if the Town will amend the Zoning By-Law and Map by adonting either of the following amendments tmereto: - ( a) By substituting for Section 3,, C. 1. Distrrt , Article 18, the following 13 . Upon the southerly side of Massachusetts Avenue beginning at the westerly line of Wallis Court and ex- tending 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. " (b) By substituting for Section 3, C. 1. Districts , Article 17, the following:- "17 . Beginning at the junction of Fletcher Avenue and Woburn Streot, and extending southwesterly to and westerly along the northerly line of Massachusetts Avenue to the easterly line of Meriam Si_reet and throughout its entire length extending northerly to the Railroad pronerty." 95 Article 13. To see if the town will vote to install an electric light in Belfry Terrace. Article 14. To see if the Town will adopt as General By- Laws of the Town the b:-laws proposed in the report of th Committee on Revision of the By-Laws presented to the Town Meeting held MarcT, 26, 1934, and on file in the office of the Town Clerk, a printed copy of which accomoanies this Warrant, which is by this reference incorporated herein and made a part hereof, with any amendments which may be ProPosed at the meeting , or do anything in relation thereto . Article 15 . To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to install sewers in the following unaccented streets subject to the assessment of bettermenf-s , 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 180 feet; Cary Street, from Taft Avenue in a northerly direction approximately 270 feetT, Tarbell Avenue, from Taft Avenue a distance of approx- imately 100 feet; Taft Avenue, from Charles Street a distance of aPprox- imately 100 feet ; and provide funds for said installation by direct appropriation or by transfer from other funds . Article 16. 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 easements therefore: Taft Avenue from Massachusetts Avenue to Daniels Street, approximately 890 feet; Cherry Street from Taft Avenue in a northerly direction approximately 180 feet; Cary Street, from Taft Avenue in a northerly direction approximately 270 feet; and provide funds for said installation by direct appropriation or by issue of bonds or notes therefore, or act in any manner relating thereto . Article 17 . To see if the Town will vote to authorize the installation of ten inch water mins at their intersection with the new Concord-Cambridge State Highway in the following streets : Watertown, Blossom and Spring Streets : also to authorize the installation of water mains , not less than six inches in diameter, in such other streets as the Selectmen may deem necessary, and nrovide funds for said construction by direct appropriation or by issue of bonds or notes therefore, or act in any manner relating thereto. Article 18 . To see if the Town will vote to transfer funds from the Trunk Line Sewer Repair Account to the Sewer Const- ruction Account . • 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. 96 t=.6 Prror4 Hereof, fail not, and make due return on 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. , 1934. Robert P . Trask John E. Gilcreast SETFCTMEN Charles E. Ferguson OF Daniel J. O ' Connell LEXINGTON John A. Lyons June 18, 1934 To the Town Clerk, 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 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