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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1927-05-10 + 3 REGUL I MEETING, i..aY 19, 1927 regular resting of the Board of Selectmen Trq held at the Selectnenrs Office at 7 'O P.ii.. nessrs . Cust ace, Burnham, Ballaru, Pobertson, a.nr' Chamberlain vele present . The Supt. of Public T orks a n A the Clerk r-ere also pre ent The records were approveu. Russell I Prentiss , Health Inspector, carne before the Board to advise them relative to -lig applics tions The Board voted to grant the following pig permits . George J. Bailey mast Street James E .i lab 1] Concord Avenue It T--as voteu not to Sunt the folio -ing lig permit-- J nes Cr ;ule Garfield Street Frank Canisius Garfield Street John Ricci althsm Str:et It v-ax voted to lay the application of P. J. Kinneen of Burlington Street on the table. In regar.: to the application of Joseph Ballou of Concord !.venue and Amos Holman of Hill avenue and William J. Dailey of liddle Street the Boaru voted to refer these to the Town Counsel • inasmuch as these parties kept pig:. 1-st ye'r without a permit, and this year pplied for a permit. rir. Chap les h. Schofield cr me before the board and submitted a proposition for rezoning a psrt of the Stevenson lot at a6 V e-lthar;i Street so that the entire lot vould become a business district for the accommodation of an apartment house, The lot is zoned for business 130 ft on + althar_ street but the lot runs for a depth of 195 49 feet on one side ^nd 199 70 on the other side. The Boaru decided to refer the matter to the Planning Boazd v-ith the request tint they take i.-mediate action on the proposition, and _o aotifiea .,r Schofielu i_liad 1 . a. Luton came b _fore the Board -ith a pro-position for the rezoning of the ection bet een C1&_ e end ,.uzzey Street taking in the lot: o•:ned b-' the folio ing George n Jackson, heirs 11, 537 sq ft .a.ry E. hoe 10 370 TT TT ' Benham 6,167 n T' • L. Lenham 11,484 " TT e--"Llington lot 8,777 Tr TT Cary lot 13,988 TT TT It is proposed to erect °-ix three story apartment houses on this tract of land, and in order to do so, the zoning lav could have to be changed. 64 w-+ �t 1 The Board uecided to refer the matter to the .. lrnning Board C7 with the request that they to.te finedia.te ,tion, n, informed Lir. Eaton to this effect. •_r Ldvr _rd nemiczi, gar. V.. A. Grenfield, isir. J. C. E. Gramstorff .nd ..r. J. L. Derrick came beforeelse Boase r els tive to their letter adares•'ed to the Board on . pril 4, 1927 hereby they i e- c;ueted the Board to give consider. tion in the granting of a permit to the Lovell Sus Line, Inc to stop on the .,tate Foss to take on rnd leave pas engers. They stated that they had no service between the hours of 13 t.. M. and 1 P. .i. on eek days, and no - ervice after 10 P L. and no service at all on 2undry, terea the Lovell Bus Line, Inc , runs busses hourly the Thole day nd also on Fundsy They Mated that they had an orgy nizati_n eith about one hundre, Tien and they felt that the territory is fat gro -iilg anu "-ill grov more rapidly -ith the pr,eper transportation facilities . They statd that pantie- interested in purchasing land aFk about the tr-nsporta.tion first of all They st, ted that they 'h u no : reference ' ho gave the service, if it could only be provided for them. _-fter the ueeFrture of the gentlemen '•he Boar discussed the matter mu decidea to .dvise the middlesex u Boston 't. -y. Co .n that they are about to gr t the bovell Bus Line, Inc . perms ion to sto_a in Lexington on the Otate Feed to receive nd deliver pass- engers, but before doing so they vould be intere ted to kno, if the lese-- & Boston oul .L like to enlarge their :re ent State road ervice to the extent of running a Belt Line service on the ;tate Ro a, ive Forks and Lincoln Ltr:et to Le::illgtod, nd through to Erlington ::eights, the Busse, to be run in esch direction once an hour -even days r week. The Boar_ __lso uecided to notify the Grape Vine cociates that they _vmprthiee -ith them in the existing con diti, na nd inform them that they re stud yr ng the mutter. t 8 :_7.0 r m. hearing = declared o yen upon the pplicetion of Calvin Childs for permia 5. 3n to ins'-all t- o gat oline tanks in the capacity of f0, 0-J0 gallons at iris ;,remises, 00 _ie - . Avenue leo persons appeared to object, and t',.e 3oard voted to grant permission to install the tanks underground. .aniel J O'Connell, Attorney for henry .i. iicC, ffr.y, tog. ther -ith :.r. dcCa_ffrey c;ne before the Board. .• r O'Connell endeavored to induce the Board to make = settlement of the mcCaffrey ca e hich has been pending for five year- He tated that he believed tart it n-=„. cost the town [-bout X81000 to date and that it sill cost a- much more before the c -se is settled and nothing -ill ccgained. 1.r . O'Connell reviewed the case briefly for the benefit of the members of the Boar' he were not familiar --ith same He E.-bated that he had the igneture of ...r. Ryder, owner of v-hat was formerly the :_ldrich property, 'nereby he -ould not claim uameges for the nater drained through his property, but he hrt not secured the signature of Edon H. Boman, owner of property abutting on the brook He asked if the Boaru ,.Dodd re uest the Torn Counsel to lay the cr -'e over until the Boaru had s chance to vier. the premises and decide if they -ould take some action tovaro settlement of the case. r. 1._cCaffre-- Mated th t he vould grant permis._ion to Ahe town to ,gut in a covered eioe rmggestion to lay the eipe [-long the 65 z:a.11 '7F1 _ made 7r. 'lcCeffrey said this would be agreeable to him as it Would not interfere with any building that might be put there. Inasmuch as oni-7 one .:ember of the Board os f, miliar with the case it was decided to aak Mr. C'rightington to furnish the Board with a brief statement of hath s t _:cn ala ce on the case and specifically recommend as to :hat should be done for the best interests of the town It 1.as deciieu to appoint Lir. Ballard to represent the Board at the meetings of the :;4etropolitan Fegional Council of Boston In regard to the letter of the Tov.n Counsel relative to releases in right in Land formerly of the Burns property deed for which the To- n holds nor use of lend for standpipe in East Lexington, the deed reed to the effect that then the Town abandoned the use of the property for standpipe nd rtor pipes th t it r'ould revert to the original comers . ir. 'ri gatington 'tated that if t'Ze Town no longer used the ,property for ter purposes that they release the :,ame so th t s clear title coulu be had by the Burns Estate The Board, however, felt that they should not cele- se their rights, and voted to recommend that they take no action on releasing the right of the Burns property for the purpose for v;hich it eras originally intended, .nd requested .rr nobert. on to take the matter up With the Town Counsel. The iollo ing licenses sere granteA: ' Common Victuallers Clementina Mitchell B dford Street Rufus Bl-ke .::ass . revenue £G_cohol Paul Revere Garage :fiddle Street Eugene Viano 458 Mass . avenue Eugene Viano Bedford Street =;plic tion received from Patrick LcLaughlin for per- mission to erect a stable at 11 Fletcher venue . Inasmuch as this is a rather thicker :et'-led community nd the erection of a -table may impair the neighborhood, it 1 s decided to request the health I7spector to vie' tle nremi sec rnd rdvise hether he feels the ,tcble should be erected that location. The Board decided to =en., to the !'i nning Board the plan of the Leary property loc! ted ' t. the end of Cottage Street off ''oburn Street, pith the request that they :turfy the territory ith vieti to lcc ,.ting a street oossibl„ e::tending a private ay no, existing, to open up the property in the rear ..irs . Briuget Leary nov. intends building a house ,:hich ould be looted in the road 'ay of an exten- sion of this street The -J lanning Bpar,i neve been re;ues,te. t to -e ' this matter up inrediately, _.nu Board of Survey notice v _- sent to the Lexington Times by the Clem: for a meeting to be held May " , 1=97, at 3 J rte, a ,,tementr to the amount of ,61 37, also se• er abatements to the amount Df39 ere by the Bard. rc" signed .,e' -er commitment signed by the Board to the , mount of ,n It vote, to s, point r t r H Stevens a - public Weightr The Board signed an agreement, dunlic-te of the original copy, enterer. into by the Trustees of the Isaac Barris Cary and the Selectmen of the Torn to accept the Isaac Hargis Cary Memorial Building. This document is to be used by the Trustees to insert in the box pl,r ced under the corner stone of the memorial building to be located on Massachusetts r_venue on n t ; as formerly the Blase nd l'iumer lots Location order signed by the Board for the Edison Electric Ill. Co. for jermissim to erect mi maintain ix poles on Righiend Avenue, one at Bloomiiel Street, three s Tutherl; it Bloom2leld tre et, an, ti- o near 7 chington Street Order for joint pole loc`'ion s granted by the Boase to the EJisan =0lectric Ill Co. nd the J B el E.. _el Co. for permission to erect four poles on Highland avenue, -outherly from Winthrop Road The Chairman reported th t dr. Robert P. Clapp had called his attention to the damages claimed by Charles h. .Carrington, Grant E .reet, -tnen Grant Street s iaiu put It ppear.i that the street grade is higher than the la -n of said Harrington, =n1 the tater flows in forming a pocket. Figures 7 ere obtained from tic) local contractors as follo—s i avid Hennessy "550 ".nthony Ross 1 Son /185. JJ The Board considered the advisability of entering upon Lr.. H, .rring ton t s land an.a .doing this -rorri, .nd rather felt that an offer of set:lement of a definite mount should be made by the Ch dirrean to Jr. Tapp., The meeting adjourned at 11 5� ?.: . true record, Attest- 44 /� 'J n �ILLA../ Clerk