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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1936-12-07-STM-WARRANT 1TOWN WARRANT1-k) 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 said Lexington, on Monday, the seventh day of December, 1936, at 8:00 P.M. then and there to act on the following articles: Article 1. To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers or of any Committee of the Town and to appoint other Committees. Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer sums from available funds to the following accounts: Public Welf are Removal of Snow and Ice Public Works Building Equipment Old Age Assistance Workmen's Compensation and Public Liability Insurance Elections & Re istr tipns Highway Department Equipment Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate funds for labor and materials on public works and for other expenses in connection therewith, to be expended by the Selectmen for aid to persons employed on various projects, and provide funds therefor by transfer from available funds. Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer money from available funds for the unpaid bills for the year 1934 in the following account: Health Department, $56.00. Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer money from available funds for the unpaid bills for the year 1935 in the following accounts: Health Department, $84.00; Police Department, $25.00. Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer the Sum of $150. for the payment of tuition of pupils attending Vocational School or act in any manner relating thereto. Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to transfer a sum of money from the Interest Account to the Excess and Deficiency Account. * See page 3. Article 9. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to install street lights in the following unaccepted streets: Arcola Street; Bartlett Ave; Pearl Street; Ridge Road; Stratham Road; Taft Avenue. Article ]D. To see if the Town will vote to accept a bequest of the late Frederick L. Emery to be held by the Town in trust to permit the Lexington Field and Garden Club to apply the income toward the beautification of public places in the Town as more fully set forth in the will of the late Frederick L. Emery. Article 11. To see if the Town will grant to the United States of America an easement to use the portion of the property at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Grant Street known as the Harrington property between the present exterior line of Massachusetts Avenue and thebuilding line heretofore established by the Town on said property substantially in accordance with a form of deed on file with the Town Clerk, a copy of which is open to public inspdction. - 2 - Article 31.. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law and Map by adopting any or all of the following amendments thereto or take any action thereon:- 1. By substituting for Section 1 thereof the following:- "Section 1. For the purposes set forth in General Laws, Chap- ter 40, sections 25 to 30A inclusive (as amended by Statute 1933, Chapter 269 ) and under the authority thereof, and of General Laws, Chapter 143, and any other laws it thereto enabling, the inspection, materials, construction, alteration and repair, height, area, location and use of buildings and structures, and the use of land in the Town of Lexington are hereby regulated as herein provided, and the Town is divided into types of districts as hereinafter defined, and as shown on the Zoning Map prepared by J. Henry Duffy, Town Engineer, and filed with the Town Clerk, March 17, 1924, and all amendments thereto, which Map as amended is hereby made a part of this By-Law. " 2. By adding to Section 2. Definitions, the following:- (f) A throughway is any State Highway primarily developed for through traffic, with a general taking of not under 100 feet in width. 3. By inserting between the second and third paragraphs of Section 3, (a ) the following:- "T.1 indicates trunk-highway districts with specially res- tricted uses, located adjacent to a throughway." 4. By changing Section 3. (b) after the heading "R.1 Districts" to read as follows:- "Every part of the Town not shown upon the zoning map as amended and not hereinafter specifically designated as R.2, T.1, C.1 and M.1 Districts." 5. By changing the numbering of the paragraphs under Section 3 (b) as follows:- Change paragraphs numbered 11 to 30a inclusive to become 1 to 21 inclusive. Change paragraphs nutbered 31 and 32 to become 1 and 2. 6. By inserting in Section 4 between the paragraphs relating to R.2 Districts and those--relating to C.1 Districts the following: "In T.l Districts:- All uses that are permitted under R.1 and R.2, but subject to any conditions and restrictions set forth therein and the following subject to the provisions of Section 9. 1. Retail gasoline, oil and greasing stations. 2. Sale and installation of tires and other automobile access- ories." Article 19. To see if the Town will vote, upon petition of Eric S. Peterson, to amend the Lexington Zoning By-Law and Map by changing from an R.1 District to a 0.1 District the parcel of land described as follows:- "Beginning at a point 200 feet easterly of the junction of the easterly line of Blossom Street with the southerly line of the new Concord Highway, thence easterly along the southerly line of the Concord Highway 200 feet, and for a depth of 100 feet throughout." - 3 - Article 1$. To see if the Town will vote, upon petition of Sarah A. Cutler, to amend the Lexington Zoning By-Law and Map by changing from an R.1 District to a C.1 District the parcel of land bounded and described as follows: "On the easterly side of Pleasant Street, beginning at a point 100 feet north of the Concord Turnpike and extending north along Pleasant Street for a distance of 150 feet, from there running easterly for about 400 feet to a point on the Concord Turnpike 100 feet east of where Clematis Brook goes under the Concord Turnpike, and bounded on the south by the Concord Turnpike and Clematis Brook." Article 14. To see if the Town will vote, upon petition of Ernest DeVincent, to amend the Lexington ZoningBy-Law and Map by changing from an R.1 District to a C.1 Distict the parcel of land bounded and described as follows: "Beginning at a point at the southwesterly inter- section of Pleasant Street and the Cambridge-Concord Turnpike and running along said turnpike in a general westerly direction 320 feet, thence turning and running due south 140 feet, thence turning and running easterly on a line parallel to the Cambridge- Concord Turnpike 130 feet to Pleasant Street, thence turning and running in a northeasterly direction along Pleasant Street 210 feet to the point of beginning. " Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to transfer a sum of money from the Highway Maintenance Salaries Account to the Excess and Deficiency Account. And you are direeted to serve this Warrant seven days at least _ , before the time of said meeting as provided in the Sy-taws of the Town. 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