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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1924-10-28 200 z MEETII:G, JJTOB:n 28 . 1924 . A regular meeting of the ooard of Selectmen; was held in the Selectmen' s Room. Town Hall , Lexington. on Tuesday , Oct . 28 .1924 , at 8 00 P . ba. The following membere of the Board were prevent , Revere . Burnham, Cuetance, Milee and Hutchinson . The aes ' t Town Clerk was aleo prevent. Hearing was declared open upon petition of James A . Bean of 26 Parker Street for permierion to erect an eight car community garage on hie preminee . Heserr . Jackson, Clancy and Lenham were present to object to this garage if it were allowed to be erected if the prevent garage which dose not comply with the State Law is to remain there . They rtill invirted that their insurance rates were increased owing to the condition of the buildings on Mr . Bean' s property and warted the Board to see that the State Law requirements were lived up to . The Board declared the hearing closed and took the matter under consideration. The question arose ae to whether this community garage would be considered a bu©ineee garage and come within :he Zoning Law. The Board decided to get an opinion on the matter. Hearing way declared open upon petition of Edward C . Bailey of East Street for permierion to erect a two mar garage at 19 Muzzey S .reet . No one appeared to object and it was voted to grant the permit. Hearing was declared open upon petition of Sharlee W . Fairbanke to inetall an underground gasoline tank on Lowell Street with a capacity of 500 gallone f )r private use . No one appeared for thio petition and ae very little information was given about the matter it war decided to have the Supt . of Public ilorks look into the matter . James W . Webeter came before the Board prevented plan of property on Fletcher e.venue where he intended to build a garage. The property line did not run straight back and therefor to place the garage on the property ae he desired it would not be 72 feet from the line of other property on the back end . He requeeted permieeion to build this Rarage in thin position. He was informed that unleer he made the building fire proof he could not build it where he requested. Timothy H . O' Connor of Bedford Street came before the Board relative to the placing of houee proposed by John Bullock of Hill Street on lot on .-argent Street . He etated that there is now one house upon the lot and Mr . Bullock would like to build another one but it would not comply with the Zoning Law as that called for 5000 feet in each lot and there were but 7000 feet in the lot which was to contain both houses . Mr. O ' Connor felt that the lot was established before the Zoning Law went into effect and that a tarn foot set bck should be allowed. 201 Mr. O' Connor also asked if the Board thought it allowable for James F. McCarthy to build chauffeurs quarters over his garage on Bedford jt. The Board informed that this would have to have the approval of the Chief of the Fire Department. Edward L. Fenn, t,rthur Earle and hugh J . Maguire of Wood Street came before the Board relative to having some per- manent work done on Wood jtreet . They stated that the work done this summer was not sufficient. that the road bed was eo narrow that nothing could pass one car and that in th'• winter time it is almost impossible to get out . The damage to their care is considerable on account of the condition of the street . The Board informed the men that they could not do anything on Wood Street with the appropriation they have on hand, but in March if they come to the town meeting and aerist in getting an appropriation to do the work the Board would be very willing to help them. Russell I Prentiss , Milk Inspector , came before the Board to inform them in regard to the arrest of John A. J 'Brien restaurant keeper. for selling skid milk. He stated that Mr. J'Brien was convicted in Court and fined $85 Dn three accounts. he appealed the case and was held in $500 bonds until the case ie continued next Thursday . Mr . Prentiss desired to know if the Board wanted him to push the case and also if they would be willing to pay expert witness fee for witness who examined the milk. The Board approved the action of the Milk Inspector. Lyon Carter came before the Board to call the Board' s attention to an incident that happened in the Police Department. and whereby it seemed to him that the power in the hands of a Police officer Who might be mistaken may lead to a man losing his license when it is not juetitied. the Chief of Police was present and listened to Mr, Carter's story. He cited a case where a friend of hie was brought into the Station and charged with drunkenness and he knew him to be a man who did not drink. There was nothing the Board could do about the matter as the man was eummened to Court and cave would have to be tried. The Chief of Police called the Board's attention to the fact that he did not have sufficient appropriation to carry out the work of following up liquor cases and he felt that the work should be done . The Board agreed to request the Appropriation Committee to make a transfer of money to the Police Department to take care of these matters. Bonds for construction of the Parker School and the addition to the Parker School were signed by the Board to the amount of $350,000. IIh true record , attest. /,c ' Q Clerk. /