HomeMy WebLinkAbout1953-03-02-TE-Warrant-and-1953-03-16-ATM-Warrant TONIN 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 their respective voting places
in said Town,
PRECINCT ONE, ADAMS SCHOOL: PRECINCT TWO, THREE AND FOUR, CARY
MEMORIAL BUILDING on Monday, the 2nd day of March, A. D. , 1953, at
7:30 o' clock A. M. , then and there to act on the following articles:
Article 1. To choose by ballot the following Town Officers:
Two Selectmen for the term of three years;
Two members of the School Committee for the term of three years;
One Cemetery Commissioner for the term of three years;
One member of the Planning Board for the term of five years;
One Moderator for the term of one year;
One Collector of Taxes for the term of one year;
One Town Clerk for the term of one year;
One Town Treasurer for the term of one year;
Two Constables for the term of one year;
Seventeen Town Meeting Members in each Precinct for the term of three years;
One Town Meeting Member in Precinct One to fill the unexpired term ending
March, 1955;
One Town Meeting Member in Precinct One to fill the unexpired term ending
March, 1954;
One Town Meeting Member in Precinct Three to fill the unexpired term ending
March, 1955;
One Town Meeting Member in Precinct Three to fill the unexpired term ending
March, 1954•
The polls will be open at 7:30 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 in said Town on Monday, the sixteenth day of March, 1953,
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 refer
endum provided for by Section eight of said Chapter.
Article 2. To receive the reports of any Board of Town Officers
or of any Committee of the Town and to appoint other Committees.
Article 3. To see if the Town will authorize the Town Treasurer,
with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time
in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January
1, 195i, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year,
and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than
one year in accordance with Section 17 of Chapter 44 of the General Laws.
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Article h. To see if the Town will make appropriations for ex-
penditures by departments, officers, boards and committees of the Town
for the ensuing year and determine whether the money shall be provided
by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, including
any special funds, or by any combination of these methods, or act in
any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 5. To see if the Town will establish the salary and
compensation of the Town Treasurer, Town Clerk and Town Collector of
Taxes, being all the elected officers of the Town on a salary basis,
as provided by Section 108 of Chapter 41 of the General Laws, and raise
and appropriate the funds necessary therefor, or act in any other manner
in relation thereto.
Article 6. To see if the Town will transfer unexpended appropriation
balances in any of the accounts to the Excess and DeficiencyAccount, or
to other accounts suitable for such transfer under Chapter 44 of the
General Laws, or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 7. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate money
to pay any unpaid obligations of the Town for prior years, or act in
any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 8. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum ;f
of money for the Reserve Fund as provided by Section 6 of Chapter 40 of
the General Laws, or act in any other manner in relation thereto,
Article 9. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to
petition the Director of Accounts of the State for an audit for the
year 1953, or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to install new or
replacement water mains in such accepted or unaccepted streets or
other land as the Selectmen may determine in accordance with authority
contained in the By-laws of the Town, subject to theassessment of
betterments or otherwise, and to take by eminent domain or otherwise
acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor;
appropriate money for such installation and land acquisition and de-
termine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy, by
transfer from available funds, including any special water funds, or
by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any
other manner in relation thereto.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to install sewer mains
in such accepted or unaccepted streets or other land as the Selectmen
may determine in accordance with Chapter 504 of the Acts of 1897, as
amended, or otherwise, and to take by eminent domain or otherwise
acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor;
appropriate money for such installation and land acquisition and
determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy,
by transfer from available funds, including any special sewer funds,
or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in
any other manner in relation thereto.
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Article 12'. To see if the Town will make supplementary appro-
priations to be used in conjunction with money appropriated in prior
years for the installation or construction of water mains, sewers, drains
or streets that have heretofore been authorized, and determine whether
the money shall be provided by the current tax levy, by transfer from
available funds or by borrowings or by any combination of these methods;
or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 13. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum
of money for the purchase of one new cruising car for the Police De-
partment, or act in any other manner• in relation thereto.
Article 14To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum
of money for the purchase of one new car for the Fire Department, or
act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 15. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate funds
for the payment of pensions to retired members of the Police and Fire
Departments under Chapter 32 of the General Laws, or act in any other
manner in relation thereto,
Article 16. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money
for highway maintenance under the authority of Chapter 90 of the
General Laws, and determine whether the money shall be provided by
the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, or by any
combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation
thereto.
Article 17. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money
for highway construction under the authority of Chapter 90 of the
General Laws, and determine whether the money shall be provided by the
current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, or by any
combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation
thereto.
Article 18. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum or sums
of money for Civilian Defense, and determine whether the money shall
be provided by the current tax levy, by transfer from available funds
or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in
any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 19, To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to
construct concrete, bituminous concrete or other sidewalks where the
abutting owner pays one-half of the cost or otherwise; appropriate a
sum of money for such construction, and determine whether the money
shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available
funds, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other
manner in relation thereto.
Article 20 To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to
install curbings at such locations as they may determine; appropriate
a sum of money for such installation, and determine whether the money
shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available
funds, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other
manner in relation thereto.
Article 21. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate money
for the improvement of lowlands and swamps and the eradication of
mosquitoes under Chapter 252 of the General Laws or for the eradication
of mosquitoes by the Board of Health of. Lexington, or act in any other
manner in relation thereto.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to install drains in
such accepted or unaccepted streets or other land as the Selectmen may
determine, in accordance with Chapter 263 of the Acts of 1926, as amended,
or otherwise, and to take by eminent domain, purchase or otherwise
acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor;
appropriate money for such installation and land acquisition and determine
whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy, by transfer
from available funds or by borrowing, or by any combination of these
methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 23. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for
the purchase by or with the approval of the Selectmen of equipment for
the Department of Public Works, and determine whether the money shall be
provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds,
including the Road Machinery Fund, or by any combination of these methods;
or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 2L1. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for
the purchase by or with the approval of the Selectmen of a truck and a
sprayer for use in insect suppression and determine whether the money shall
be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds,
including the Road Machinery Fund, or by any combination of these methods;
or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to enlarge the scope of
the Road Machinery Fund by crediting to said fund an amount based on
hourly rental for the use of motorized equipment of the Public Works
Department when used on various projects carried ori under the direction
of said Department or other Town Departments, the amount of said credit
not to exceed the amount allowed by the State for the use of similar
equipment, or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 26. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen
to appoint one of its members to the Board of Appeals, in accordance with
Section 1}A of Chapter L11 of the General Laws, or act in any other manner
in relation thereto.
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to install street lights
in such unaccepted streets ad the Selectmen may determine prior to the
final adjournment of the 1954 Annual Town Meeting, or act in any other.
manner in relation thereto.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 781
of the Acts of 1951 which provides for an increase in the amounts of
pensions and retirement allowances payable to certain former town
employees.
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Article 29,0 To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money
for road and fence construction and repair in the Sunset Section layout
inWestviewCemetery and determine whether the money shall be provided
by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, including
the Westview Sale of Lots Fund, or by any combination of these methods,
or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 30. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to
construct a baseball field for Little League Baseball, appropriate money
therefor and determine whether the money shall be provided by the
current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, or by any combination
of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 31. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen on
behalf of the Town to acquire by purchase or by eminent domain or other-
wise, a parcel or parcels of land on or near Grassland Street, Lexington,
for playground purposes; appropriate money therefor and determine whether
the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from
available funds, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any
other manner in relation thereto.
Article 32. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town
way, and accept the layout of as a town way, Bartlett Avenue from Lowell
Street, a distance of approximately 971 feet westerly as laid out by
the Selectmen under the Betterment Act, and shown upon a plan on file
in the office of the Town Clerk, dated January 12, 1953 and to take by
eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest
in land necessary therefor; appropriate money for the construction of
said road and for land acquisition, and determine whether the money shall
be provided by the current tax levy, by transfer from available funds
or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any
other manner in relation thereto.
Article 33. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a Town
way, and accept the layout of as a town way, Gleason Road, from North
Hancock Street 'northerly approximately 760 feet to Fuller Road as laid
out by the Selectmen under the Betterment Act, and shown upon a plan on
file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated January 12, 1953 and to take
by eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest
in land necessary therefor; appropriate money for the construction of
said road and for land acquisition, and determine whether the money shall
be provided by the current tax levy, by transfer from available funds or
by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other
manner in relation thereto.
Article 314. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town
way, and accept the layout of as a town way a certain strip of land in-
cluding Edison Way and extending from Edison Way to Depot Park, a total
of approximately 840 feet, as laid out by the Selectmen and shown upon
a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated January 8, 1951,
and to take by eminent domain, purchase or otherwise acquire any fee,
easement or other interest in land necessary therefor; appropriate money
for the acquisition of said land and for the construction of said way
and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy,
by transfer from available funds or by borrowing, or by any combination
of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 35. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen on
, behalf of the Town to acquire by purchase or by eminent domain or
otherwise or by lease, land or interests therein in the rear of the
premises numbered 1709 to 1794 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington,
or any part thereof, for the purpose of establishing an off-street parking
area, appropriate a sum of money for such land acquisition and lease and
for construction and operation of the parking area and facilities , and
determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy,
by transfer from available funds , including the Parking Meter Account,
or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods ; or act in any
other manner in relation thereto.
Article 36. To see if the Town will rescind the authority to
borrow the sum of y$40, 000 for the installation of water mains of sixteen
inches or more in diameter that was voted under Article 10 of the Warrant
for the Annual Town Meeting held on March 17, 1952, no part of said sum
having been borrowed, or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 37. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board
of Selectmen, however from time to time constituted, to sell and convey
any of the real estate now or hereafter acquired by the Town by taking
or sale for non-payment of taxes, the right of redemption of which has
been or shall be foreclosed or otherwise terminated, upon such terms and
conditions as they may approve, or act in any other manner in relation
thereto.
Article 38. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to
sell and convey the land on Meriam Street known as the Old Fire Station
Site, upon such terms and conditions as they deem properp or act in any
other manner in relation thereto; said land being described as follows :
Beginning at a stone bound on the southeasterly side line of Meriam
Street at the property now or formerly of Henry P. Boutelle, thence
running northeasterly along Meriam Street a distance of 42.90 feet
to a stone bound. Thence turning at an angle of 900 001. and running
southeasterly by land now orformerly of Henry P. Boutelle a distance
of 79.56 feet to a stone bound. Thence turning at an angle of 900 201 30"
and running southwesterly by land now or formerly of Henry P. Boutelle a
distance of 42.68 feet to a point. Thence turning at an angle of
890 491 30" and running northwesterly by land now or formerly of Henry P.
Boutelle a distance of 79.73 feet to the point of beginning and containing
3,1107 plus or minus square feet.
Article 39. To see if the Town will vote to amend Section 6 of
Article V1 of the General By-Laws by striking out the words "and shall
be kept open one evening each week for at least two consecutive hours, the
day and time for such evening hours to be determined by the Board of Select-
men" and' inserting in place thereof the following: - "and may be kept open
during such evening hours as the Selectmen may from time to time determine" ,
so that said section will read as follows:
Section 6. That portion of the Town Office Building Welch is occupied
by the offices of the Board of Selectmen, or Board of Public \Works,
the Town Clerk, the Town Treasurer, and the Collector of Taxes, shall
be kept open continuously for the transaction of business for eight
hours each week day except holidays and Saturdays, the particular hours
to be arranged by the Selectmen for the convenience of the public,
and may be kept open during such evening hours as the Selectmen may
from time to time ct-termine.
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Article 40, To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning
By-Law so as to change certain land from an R 1 District to a C 1
District by adding in Section 4 . (c) C 1 - Local business districts,
the following new paragraph:
A district on the southeasterly side of Waltham Street beginning at
the point of intersection of the southerly sideline of Vine Brook Road
and the easterly sideline of Waltham Street, thence running southerly
along said easterly sideline of Waltham Street a distance of 471 feet
plus or minus to a point; said point being the intersection of thetue
easterly sideline of Waltham Street and the northerly sideline of/Vine
Brook easement, so called; thence turning and running easterly along said
northerly sideline of the Vine Brook easement a distance of 247..53 feet to
a point; thence turning and running northeasterly along land now or formerly
of Ryder 183 feet plus or minus to a point; thence turning and running
westerly along land now or formerly of J. Joseph and Anne T. Hurley, 14
feet plus or minus to a point; thence turningand running northeasterly
along land now or formerly of J. Joseph and Anne T. Hurley, 75 feet plus
or minus to a point; thence turning and running in a northwesterly direction
along land now or formerly of Morse, 174 feet plus or minus to a point;
thence turning and running northeasterly along land now or formerly of
Morse, 58 feet to Vine Brook Road; thence turning and running westerly
along the southerly sideline of Vine Brook Road a distance of 92 feet
plus or minus to the point of beginning.
Article 41, To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law
so as to change certain land from an R 1 District to a C 1 District by
adding in Section 4 . (c ) 0 1 - Local business districts, the following
new paragraph:
A district on the southwesterly side of Bedford Street, said district
being the lot of premises now numbered 30 Bedford Street , having a
frontage along Bedford Street of 75 feet and a depth of approximately 160
feet.
Article 42. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning
By-Law so as to change certain land from an R 1 District to a C 1
District by adding in Section 4 . (c) C 1 - Local business districts,
the following new paragraph
A district on the northerly side of Marrett Road beginning at the
westerly terminus of a curve of 215.47 feet radius thence westerly
along the northerly line of said Marrett Road distant 69.5 feet to a
point, thence northerly distant 200.9 feet to a point, thence easterly
distant 60.00 feet to a point, thence southerly distant 214.9 feet to
a point in the northerly line of said Marrett Road, thence westerly by
a curve bearing to the right of radius 215.47 feet distant 137.34 feet
to the point of beginning, said described district being shown as Lot 240
on a plan recorded in the Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds in
Book 321, Page 56
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43 To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning
By-Law so as to change certain land from. an_ R 1,Distrlct to auLM.,l
District by;addingCin )�
Section , ' (f1 M 1. - ' L ght` manufacturing
districts the ,following. new paragr,'apha
A distriet'b.aund'ed -on =the north by M'ae'sachusetts Avenue and Marrett
Strande2,00 _fe,ethnor:t,herl'y ofuth'e' no8therl'yhs'ide,l'th :,by a. l, neparallel
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between Route ine .of .Lincoln Street
#128. and' M' ll 'Street and by ,Dinceln ,,Street between
Mill Street; and the Lexington=Lincoln town 'l'ine, ' and on the west by
the Lexington=Linaoin town line-®
Article 1414. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning
By-Law so as to change certain land from an R 1 District to an M 1
District by adding in Section 4. (f) M 1 - Light manufacturing
Districts, the following new .paragraph:
A district bounded on the southwest by Wood Street and a line extending
from said Wood Street to Route #128, said line being the prolongation of
the northeasterly line of Lot 6 and •Lot 7 which are at the northeasterly
end of Bates Road- on the southeast by Route #128, on the northeast by a
line parallel to and 22400 feet southwesterly of the southwesterly side
of the railroad right of way, and on the northwest by the Lexington-
Bedford town line.
Article 45. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning
By-Law so as to change certain land from an R 1 District to an M 1
District by adding in Section 4. (f) M 1 - Liglt manufacturing
districts, the following new paragraph:
A district bounded on the southwest by a line parallel to and 1200
feet northeasterly of the notheasterly side of the railroad right of
way, on the southeast by Route #128, on the northeast by a line
parallel to and 200 feet southwesterly of the southwesterly sideline
of Bedford Street, and on the northwest by the southeasterly sideline
of Westview Street.
Article )}6. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning
By-Law so as to change certain land from an R 1 District to a C 1
District by adding in Section 4. ( c) C 1 ® Local business districts,
the following new paragraph:
214. A district beginning at a point which is the northeasterly bounday
of the 01 district on the southerly side of Concord Avenue, thence
running in a southeasterly direction along Concord Avenue 100 feet, thence
turning and running in a southwesterly direction along the land now or
formerly of Robert B. and Marjorie Townsend 108.23 feet to a point, thence
in a southerly direction by land of said Robert B. and Marjorie Townsend
81.76 feet to a point, thence in a southwesterly direction again by land
now or formerly of said Robert B. and Marjorie Townsend, 65.23 feet to
the land now or formerly of CharlesE. and Eleanor F. Ramsey, thence
turning and running in a northwesterly direction along the land of the
said Charles E. and Eleanor F. Ramsey, 181 .12 feet to Waltham Street,
thence turning and running in a northerly direction by a curved line on
said Waltham Street 100 feet to the southwesterly corner of the existing
01 district, thence turning and running in a southeasterly direction
along the southwesterly line of ea& the said existing 01 district 99.50
feet to a point, thence turning and running northeasterly by the
southeasterly line of said 01 district 160.145 feet to the point of
beginning.
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Article 47. To see if the Town will vote to amend the
Zoning By-Laws so as to add to the definition of "Street" in Section
2 (f) the following sentence: A public or private way as aforesaid
shall not be deemed to be a "street" as to any lot of land that does
not have rights of access to and of passage over said way.
Article 4e. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning
By-Law so as to change certain land from an R 1 District to a C 1
District by adding in Section 4 (c) C 1 - Local business districts,
the following new paragraph:
A district upon the southeasterly side of Weston Street beginning
at a point 125 feet northeasterly of the northeasterly line of the
Cambridge--Concord Highway thence southeasterly by a line parallel
to said Cambridge—Concord Highway distant approximately 400 feet to
a point , thence northeasterly distant approximately 327 feet to a
point, thence northwesterly distant approximately 360 feet to a point
in the southeasterly line of Weston Street, thence southwesterly
along said line of Weston Street distant approximately 330 feet to
the point of beginning.
( Inserted at the request of ten or more registered voters. )
Article 49. To see if the Town will vote to amend Section 39A
of Article XXIV of the General By-Laws of the Torn of Lexington by
adding thereto the word "shot-gun" after the word "rifle" in the first
paragraph of said section, so that this first paragraph shall read:
! No person shall without a written permit from the Board of
Selectmen or the Chief of Police and a written permit from
the owner or occupant of land fire or discharge any rifle,
shot-gun, air-rifle or pistol on or across any land within
the confines of the Town, but this section shall not prevent
the use of such firearms in the lawful defense and protection
of one' s person or other human being or property, nor to
veterinarians in the practice of their profession, nor in the
performance of any duty required or authorized by law, nor to
members of the Police Department in carrying out their duties
and for target practice upon ranges duly approved by the Chief
of Police."
( Inserted at the request of ten or more registered voters . )
Article 50. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum
of money from available funds toward the reduction of the 1953 tax
rate, or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
Article 51. To receive the report of the Planning Board as to
options obtained for land or rights therein that it desires to recommend
be acquired by the Town as locations for future streets as authorized by
the vote adopted under Article 42 of the warrant for the 1952 Annual Town
Meeting, and to see if the Town will authorize the Planning Board to con-
tinue obtaining such options and authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire
such land or rights therein as locations for future streets; appropriate
money for such pptions and for land acquisition and determine whether the
money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from avail-
able funds, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other
manner in relation thereto.
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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 of
said meeting.
Given under our hands at Lexington, this ninth day of February,
A. D. , 1953.
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CONSTABLE' S RETURN
To the Town Clerk February c 4t , 1953
I have served the foregoing warrant by posting a printed copy
thereof in five (5) public places in the Town and also by sending by
mail, postage prepaid, a printed copy of such warrant addressed to every
registered voter of the Town at his last residence, as appears from the
recordsof the Board of Registrars of Voters /1 days before the
time of said meeting.
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Attest:
.nstable of Lexington