HomeMy WebLinkAbout1955-06-20-STM-Warrant 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 Cary Memorial Hall, in said
Lexington, on Monday, the twentieth day of June, 1955 at 8:00 P. M. then
and there to act on the following articles :
ARTICLE 1. To receive the reports of any board of Town officers
or of any committee of the Town.
ARTICT.F 2. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a Town Way,
and accept the alteration, relocation and layout of as a town way, School
Street, northeasterly a distance of approximately 24.00 feet from Marrett
Road at Lincoln Street to Massachusetts Avenue as altered, relocated and
laid out by the Selectmen and shown upon a plan on file in the office of
the Town Clerk, dated March 21, 1955 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 street and for
land acquisition, and determine whether the money shall be provided 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 3. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to con-
struct concrete, bituminous concrete or other sidewalk in School Street,
subject to the assessment upon abutting estates of one-half of the cost, or
otherwise; appropriate a sum of money for such construction, and provide for
payment thereof by transfer from available funds; or act in any other manner
in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a Town Way,
and accept the layout of as a town way, Worthen Road from Bedford
Street to Massachusetts Avenue, southwesterly, a distance of approximately
1930 feet as laid out by the Selectmen and shown upon a plan on file in the
office of the Town Clerk, dated February 9, 1955 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
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for land acquisition, and determine whether the money shall be provided by
transfer from available funds, or by borrowing or by any combination of
these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
ARTICTF 5. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for
the purchase of one additional cruising ear for the Police Department and
to provide for payment thereof by transfer from available funds, or act in
any other manner in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 6. 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 situated northwesterly of Waltham Street,
southwesterly of Massachusetts Avenue and southeasterly of Muzzey Street,
and being any portion or portions or all of the parcels numbered 1 to 89
inclusive Waltham Street, 1752 to 1778 inclusive Massachusetts Avenue, and
6 to 22 inclusive Muzzey Street, and unnumbered parcels adjacent thereto,
or any of them, for the purpose of establishing an off-street parking area
and access thereto; appropriate a sum of money for the acquisition of such
land and for the construction and operation of the parking area and facili-
ties, and determine whether the money shall be provided 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 7. To see if the Town will vote to change the names of the
following streets, or act in any other manner in relation thereto, namely;
a.) To change to Welch Road the name of Hill Avenue,
an unaccepted way extending from Grandview
Avenue to Summit Avenue.
b.) To change to Estabrook Road the name of Summit
Avenue, an unaccepted way extending from
Massachusetts Avenue to Grandview Avenue.
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ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law
by adding in Section 2. Definitions, the following:
(p) Sanitary Sewer. A public sanitary sewer of the Town of Lexington.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law
by changing a certain area from an R1 district-One family dwelling, to a
Cl district-Local business, by adding to section lj.(c) Cl-Local business
districts, the following new paragraph:
2)1 . A district on the easterly side of Waltham
Street, adjacent to the Waltham City line, con-
taining by estimation about 7 acres, bounded and
described as. follows :
On the north on land now or formerly of
Fletcher; on the east on land now or formerly
of John McCarthy; on the south on land now or
formerly of Hildreth and others; and on the west
on Waltham Street, formerly Lexington Street.
And you are directed to serve this warrant seven days at least
'i 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 thirty-first day of May,
A. D. , 1955.
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