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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.
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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
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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
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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� ?.: .
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