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SET,�,CT vIEN'S MEETING
January 29, 1952
A special meeting of the Board of Selectmen
was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office
Building on Tuesday evening, January 29, 1952.
Chairman Nickerson, Messrs. Driscoll and Hoyt
were present. Mr. Burns, Supt. of Public Works,
and the Clerk were also present. Messrs. Gay
and Emery arrived later in the evening.
Notices were delivered by Constable to all
property owners on Castle Road, Hayes Avenue,
Hillcrest Street, Independence Avenue, Preston
Road, Wilson Road, Barrymeade Drive, Woodcliffe
Road, Underwood Avenue, Normandy Road, Munroe
Road and Hudson Road, advising that the Board
would meet this evening at 7:00 P. Q. for the
purpose of making and establishing extensions
and layouts of these streets as accepted
town ways.
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There were approximately sixty persons
present and the meeting was opened and conducted
as follows :
Chairman: If too many people come and show interest
the meeting will have to be adjourned to
the basement of Cary Memorial. We might
as well hold hearings on twelve streets
simultaneously. We thought if we did
hold them simultaneously there are certain
matters of information which are pertinent
to all the streets.
I will preface the remarks by saying we
will start with the hearings on the streets
in the following order: Wilson Road,
Independence Avenue, Preston Road, Hill-
crest Street, Hayes Avenue, Barrymeade
Drive, Castle Road, Woodcliffe Road,
Underwood Avenue, Normandy Road, Munroe
Road and Hudson Road. The form of the
hearing will be that I will read the
formality briefly. Then we will hear
from those people who are in favor of
the acceptance of the street. Then we
will hear from the people who are opposed,
if any. We will then hold a short period
of rebuttal or discussion. From the
fact we have twelve streets to consider,
we will be short for time and will devote
as much time as necessary to the dis-
cussion
of the first street because
various matters are considered for one and
will apply to all. We hope after we get
through the first one we may be able to
proceed at greater speed.
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We will formally open the hearing on Wilson
Road. If at any time it appears that we
are too crowded we will go over to the
basement of Cary. I will name a few gens
eralities which will apply to all the
streets. If there are any questions,
they will be answered by Mr. Burns, the
head of our Public Works Department.
All of the streets are proposed to be
twenty-four feet in width. They will
all have six foot grassed shoulders.
There will be no sidewalks in any case.
The surface of the street will be two
inch bituminous concrete laid on ten
inches of compacted .clay and gravel.
I now decree the hearing on Wilson Road Wilson
open. All abutters have been notified. Road
Mr. Burns has prepared an estimate of
the cost which will bereliminarily
assessed which will be *7.50 per foot
for each abutter. The percentage of
abutters on Wilson Road who wish to have
the street is 93%. We will hear from
those who are in favor of the acceptance
of Wilson Road.
Howard D. Ryder, 2 Wilson Road
Lyman J. Cole, 12 Wilson Road
Mrs. Frank A. Nixon, 8 Wilson Road
Chairman: Is there anyone who is opposed? (There
were none. ) Is there anyone who wants
to ask questions?
Mr. Ryder: How wide?
,.Mr. Burns: Twenty-four foot paved area; bituminous
concrete, hot top.
Ryder: My shrubs are about three feet beyond the
actual marker. Will they be moved?
Burns: Unless in grading the street the roots are
exposed, we would not ordinarily touch
them. Before anything is moved or touched,
you will be told about it to see what
arrangements we can make.
Hearing on Wilson Road declared closed
at 7:10 P .M.
Chairman: We will proceed to the hearing on Independence
Avenue. The abutters on Independence Avenue
have all been notified as required by law. Independence
When the survey was made as to those who are Avenue
in favor, 65% of the abutters indicated
approval by signing. The cost per linear
foot for each abutter to be assessed is
$7.50 per foot.
Is anyone in favor?
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Robert H. Hubbard, 33 Independence Avenue
Einest H. Moore, 35 Independence Avenue
Chairman: Is there anyone who wishes to speak in
opposition? (There were none. )
Chairman: Are there any questions?
Moore: In front of 35, twenty feet is regular
paved road. What becomes of that twenty
feet?
Burns: I can't tell you at the moment. If it
will match in with the profile of the
pavement, it will remain. If it does not
conform, it will probably come out.
If it does not come out, we pay for where
it starts.
Burns : You only pay for the part constructed.
Cleas: (George H. , 30 Independence Avenue ) I am
one of the signers of the petition to have
the street taken over by the Town and paved
and just want to emphasize my approval.
In addition, I have a letter from one of
the property owners who could not come
down tonight. That is the owner of the
property at 32 Independence Avenue.
Chairman: We will add this to the record.
Hearing on Independence Avenue was
declared closed at 7 :15 P.M.
Chairman: We will now open the hearing on Preston
Road. All abutters were duly notified as
required by law. In the petition for the
Preston acceptance of Preston Road, 58% of the
Road abutters indicated their approval. ~,P
The-preliminary assessment to be filed at
the Registry and assessed will be #7.50 per
linear foot.
Does anyone wish to speak in favor?
Evans: Mrs. David H., 3 Preston Road. Does that
58% also include the three names at the
end of Preston Road?
Burns: Yes.
Chairman: 58% is somewhat misleading because practically
all of the people at the end next to Simonds
Road indicated their approval and signed.
Only aLamall portion of the people on the
Burlington Street end indicated their
approval. Overall the percentage is 58% but
it is high on one end and low on the other.
Evans: Does it make any difference?
Chairman: It is quite possible the Board might consider
the acceptance of the one end and not the
other. It all depends on the evidence to-
night as to who wants it.
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Welch: William T. , 39 Preston Road. The first
four people on Preston on the end toward
Burlington signed and we thought more
than 58% of the total had signed.
Chairman: That is the exact percentage.
Welch: I think a group of people living in the
middle between Blake Road and the hill
are those who did not sign.
Bavelas : Alex, 30 Preston Road. I live in the
middle and I signed.
Gale: John C. for the long pull, I have signed.
I realize it will add expense and I be-
lieve I have the longest frontage. I
wish to give my neighbors credit for
repairing Preston Road this Fall for the
time being. but it is not permanent. I
am for a permanent street.
Lynch: John C. , 21 Preston Road. I think it is
very essential that Preston Road be taken
by the Town as a Town way. In the Spring
it is impossible for fire apparatus to
get up. The same would be true on the
other portion had it not been for the
people who put in labor and material and
fixed the street there. That was only
temporary and I feel it is essential for
protection of property.
Currier: Reynold A1 ,24 Preston Road. I am in favor.
Weldon: Clinton P., 11 Preston Road. This part is
extremely muddy and sometimes for a week
at a time I can't drive my car over it and
have to leave it at the end of the street.
Rocks come through as much as fifteen or
eighteen inches above the street.
Frederic W. Fenerty, 7 Preston Road, in
favor.
Fardy: George F. , 40 Preston Road. Did you say
the Board would accept one end and not the
other?
Chairman: There is a project that is being considered
that is a little bit nebulous. It is a
sewer main.
Fardy: I am in favor of that.
Chairman: If the sewer project is favored by Town
Meeting and funds appropriated for con-
struction of it, it is improbable that
Preston Road at that end would be put in
until after the sewer main is put in be-
cause it would be putting in the street one
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year and tearing it up the next year. In
order to sewer your section you would have
to put in a very expensive sewer main to
connect away across the fields. It is being
considered in our budget this year.
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Burns : The hearing is being conducted on the basis
of 1450 feet.
Chairman: Anyone else in favor?
Vincent F. Crowley, 37 Preston Road
Edward B. Krevis, 26 Preston Road
Krevis : Any figure on the cost of the sewer?
Burns: What is your frontage?
Krevis : Ninety feet.
Burns : The cost of the sewer varies from year to
year but a rough figure would be between
$250 and $300. The service connection is
in addition.
Chairman: Does anyone wish to speak in opposition?
(No one )
When will we know if the idea of the sewer
will cause a deferment of our section and
will we have to repetition the Board to
have the road put in?
Chairman: To answer your first question, it is a matter
of timing. I assume that the matter of the
sewer main, if it is recommended by the
Boards concerned, will be presented to Town
Meeting in advance of the acceptance of
these streets. If Town Meeting votes the
money for the sewer main, it would auto-
matically
lop off the acceptance of that
portion of Preston Road which would sewer
into the northeasterly side. Subsequent
to the installation of the main across
the field, the mains will have to be in-
stalled in the streets.
Burns: What would be the feeling of the people if
both assessments came in the same year?
My impression would• be that they would be
in favor.
Burns: I don't know if they could or would be.
As far as the people who are here who
would like it?
Four people expressed themselves as being
in favor, without giving their names.
Chairman: It is quite possible if the Town did vote
the sewer main that the whole thing could
be handled within a period of twelve months.
Your petition is in on the street acceptance
and the sewer would come along automatically.
It might all be completed within twelve
months. Any street acceptance has to be
voted by Town Meeting. If the Board of
Selectmen decide to approve this, and the
Appropriation Committee decides to go
along with it, recommendations will be
made in an article at Town Meeting.
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A vote will be offered and if Town Meeting
accepts it, the money will be apprppriated.
It is possible for Town Meeting to turn it
down. We just make recommendations.
? Can't domething be done about the,To*n taking dirt,
washed down by rain, and putting it at the
dump.
Chairman: There is nothing that we can do about it.
If we go into a street and make repairs,
it is ours for six years.
If the Town turns down the sewer, the street
is still in, provided they don't turn that
down?
Chairman: Yes.
? Will the sewer service the houses at the top
of Preston Road
Chairman: At some place, you go one way and at another
place you go another way.
Burns: The one we are talking about will cover every
house up there.
The hearing on Preston Road was declared closed
at 7:35 P.M.
Chairman: We will now open the hearing on Hillcrest
Street. The abutters have all been Hillcrest
notified as required by law. Hillcrest Street
Street is not in the same category as the
first three streets that you heard dis-
cussed. It is a very steep street and
the material coasts down hill very fast
in a rain storm and the street is impas-
ible. It creates a bad situation in that
area. None of the abutters have asked for
the acceptance. At least no one has signed
for it, but it is considered a good thing for
the Town and therefore the Town Public Works
Department is sponsoring this acceptance.
I imagine inasmuch as no one signed for it,
no one will be here to speak in favor of it.
Is there anyone present in favor? (No one )
Is there anyone present who is opposed?
E. Peterson: I am speaking for Mrs. Anna Peterson.. She
is ill. I think she is opposed to it due
to the fact that the land she owns is not
worth the cost of putting in the road.
Chairman: You merely have land there?
Peterson: Yes.
The hearing on Hillcrest Street was dec-
lared closed at 7:40 P.M.
' Chairman: We will proceed to the acceptance of Hayes
Avenue. Hayes Avenue is more or less in Hayes
the same category as Hillcrest. No one Avenue
indicated a desire for the acceptance.
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This is for Hayes Avenue from Meriam to
Woodland. It is a short connecting street
between two accepted streets and it
seemed to some of us, that it would be a
good idea to offer it for acceptance.
There are only three abutters. I only
see one of them here.
Are you served by either Meriam or Wood-
land, Mr. Kraetzer?
Kraetzer: Meriam Street.
Chairman: You would get a betterment assessment.
Kraetzer: I am not opposed and I have talked to the
Pyles. They are not opposed either. We
have frontage on Meriam Street. The
Pyles have frontage on Woodland Road and
the Webbs also have frontage. I understand
we receive credit for the frontage on the
other streets.
Emery: I would like to leave it as not a positive
statement. You never paid an assessment on
Meriam Street, did you?
Kraetzer: The property has. The Pyles will be paying
on Woodland Road and so have the Webbs.
Chairman: There is no credit given from the figures here
because the assessment against your property
would be $184.58.
Burns There must be a credit on that.
Chairman: There are 22.4 feet.
Kraetzer: Most of us thought if you lived on a cor-
ner lot, you paid only one frontage and
going on that basis the Pyles and we have
no objection. We feel that the road itself
does not improve our property. We can see
from the Town's point that it would mean a
lot because the children use it going back
and forth to school. We felt that it was
an advantage to the Town and not for us
and we should not be called upon to pay
any assessment.
Chairman: You would be called upon to pay for 22.4
feet which would be the difference be-
tween your lot on Meriam Street.
Kraetzer: On that, I am sure no one would have any
objection,. I would make a request that
the Engineering Department take a look
because my house is in ledge. Inasmuch
as the basement actually has ledge pro-
truding into it, it would be wise for
the Town to have someone look at the pro-
perty and look at the piers so there
would be no question about damage later
on.
Chairman: It has been surveyed.
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Burns : I am very familiar with that piece of
ledge. If it can be done without getting anything out of it, it will be done.
Chairman: Your neighbors would be assessed more
than you. They would be assessed for
fifty odd feet.
Kraetzer: We are not opposed from a town view-
point. I just wanted to find out where
we do stand.
Chairman: You have 22.4' frontage, Webb 55 ' .4453.20
and Pyle 58' .- 477.92.
This, as you understand, is pre-assessment.
You will be charged no more than that.
This is the maximum you could be charged.
Kraetzer: Can I be assured that an engineer will be
up?
Burns: The house will be gone over.
Finery: Mr. Chairman, will you ask Mr. Kraetzer
if his garage and Pyle' s front on the
section of Hayes Avenue that is proposed
to be constructed?
Kraetzer: They face on a small section.
Emery: Then you would be benefitted to any
extent of getting into your garage.
Kraetzer : I have never had any trouble.
Chairman: You have the reservation that maybe Meriam
Street was never assessed?
Emery: Yes.
Kraetzer : When will you know about that other condition?
Emery: Some time we will go into it.
The hearing on Hayes Avenue was declared
closed at 7:45. P.M.
Chairman: We will take up the acceptance of Barry-
meade Drive. All abutters have been
notified as required by law. Barry- Barry-
meade Drive is in a different situation meade
from the preceding streets. A privately Drive
built street was put in there to some
specifications about which we are not
entirely certain, but a reasonably
good street was put in there which gives
a fair start and would lower the assess-
ment which we would file at the Registry
to $5.00 a linear foot. The §5.00 a
linear foot is somewhat higher than we
would file if we were convinced that the
street was built to Town specification
andif we were convinced that the street
drainage were efficiently constructed.
We don't think the drainage is efficient.
Seventy-four percent of the frontage has
approved this acceptance.
Does anyone want to speak in favor?
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Hatch: William H., 4 Barrymeade Drive. There is
one individual we could not find, named
Belanger. He changed his name to Baker
and vanished. Aside from him only one
other abutter did not sign. I am very
much in favor and, as you say, the main
problem is the drainage because the
water runs down and freezes in the winter,
breaks through and builds up higher and
higher. The utility people can't get
through. There would be, on many a night,
a real fire hazard. It is not a matter of
convenience, but it is a matter of great
detriment to the property now.
May: Richard W. , 1 Barrymeade Drive. I am in
favor. The drainage problem is serious.
The ground water in that area does not
run off and the septic tanks are the
problem too. There are times when you
can get an odor from the tanks. What
would be done about the drainage.
Burns : The drainage in the street runs to the
circle and stops at the wall. I know
it does not run to the field.
Mrs. Sarano: There is a pipe, but it is probably closed
up.
May: The basins never fill up.
Sarano : The children fill them in at times.
Burns : There is no outlet. Whether it is blocked
or piped in there, it does not go through
the wall.
May: The catch basins are only at the far end
of the street.
Burns : The basins are put in the hollow.
May: The water drains out of my cellar into
the street. In getting to the catch basins,
it piles up and freezes. The surface drain-
age is not adequate.
Burns : That is not sot from the entrance to
Lincoln Street. If the first set of basins
is within 300 feet from the corner, there
is nothing wrong with the design. If it
is 400 or something like that, another
pair would have to be added.
Hatch: Most of the water pours out and down.
Couldn't catch basins be put where the
two outlets come into the street?
Burns: As far as the water coming out of your
cellar. This is one of the most serious
problems we have to face. People pump
the water out into the street and it
freezes and then we have a sheet of ice. 11No amount of drainage in the street will
stop the water in your cellar. It won' t
give you a place to put it unless there
is a basin in front of each house.
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May: I feel even if it is only 300 feet to the
first catch basin we would like to have
another one installed.
Burns: If it is a situation not being handled by
the drainage on Barrymeade Drive, it will
be taken care of.
Shaw: Donald J. , 6 Barrymeade Drive. I am in
favor. As late as last Saturday morning
there was four inches of ice on that
hollow.
Blunt: Arthur B,, 9 Barrymeade Drive. I am in
favor.
Sarano: I did not sign, not knowing much about
business, I was scared, but I am very
much in favor of having whatever is nec-
essary done.
Aalerud : Roy 0. I am in favor.
Shaw: The 74% is probably up with Mrs. Sarano
now approving it.
Chairman: Is there anyone else in favor? (None )
Is there anyone opposed? (None )
Are there- any more questions? (None )
The hearing on Barrymeade Drive was
declared closed at 8:00 F.M.
Chairman: We will take up Castle Road next. All
the abutters on Castle Road have been Castle
notified as required by law. The sit- Road
uation on Castle Road is similar in some
ways to some of the others discussed to-
night and different in other respects.
There is one proponent of the acceptance
of this street who owns a considerable
amount of land. The other abutters
consist of one person who owns a lot of
land without a house and two people who
live on the corner of Castle and Hayes.
Castle Road was built as a specification
street and a pretty good surface put ons
but it has started to deteriorate. For
$3.00 per linear foot for the abutters,
we feel it can be put in first-class
shape and the street accepted by the
Town. The base and drainage is already
in.
Does anyone want to speak in favor?
Baskin: I asked the Town last Fall if they would
go in- and patch it up because we could
not keep it open for Town traffic. I
thought it was in better shape than most
of the streets in the neighborhood. I
don't think it is the time yet to put on
the black top. I think it should be done
after all the services are in.
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Burns : If it is voted to accept, the few lots on
there before the street was built, we could
lay the services off the pavement to the
curb.
Chairman: Do you wish to withdraw your request?
Baskin: I only asked to have it accepted as was.
Da you have to have a two-inch surface?
Burns: Every street that has been accepted, is
a case of constructing them new or on
the others to put two inches on.
Baskin: The people who live on the street get
no good. The neighborhood gets all the
good. Is there nothing the Town can do
to repair the holes.
Burns: If we go in there and make any repairs -
first we are not allowed to and secondly
we would end up by owning it for six
years.
Baskin: I don't think it is time to build it.
Chairman: Are you speaking in opposition to this?
Baskin: I would choose to have you accept it as
it is.
Chairman: That can't be done.
Baskin: Would you choose to have us close the
street? I think we could legally close
it.
Chairman: If you wish to close the street and
can do it legally, you own the street.
There is no question about it; you and
one other person, Hortense Moody. You,
Moody, the Reeds and Carlsons own the
street.
Baskin: I don't care either way. Let's hear
what some of the other people have to
say.
Chairman: Is anyone in favor of acceptance of this
street? (None )
Is anyone opposed?
Carlson: I think the assessment of $3.00 a foot
is somewhat expensive relative to the
cost of the land. Add that assessment
to the present value of the land, I
doubt if the land could be sold to
cover that. We get less then 5% of the
use of the road. We would be making
anotherif t to the Town. It has already
cost me $1,000 to have it built. I own
25% of the frontage oh that road. At
that moment I think it is premature to
have the road accepted.
Chairman.: Whenever you do, and if it deteriorates,
it might cost much more money. If at some
time Mr. Baskin decides he wants to
develop his lots and Moody decides to build ,
they may want to have the street accepted.
If it goes to pieces, it will cost some
money.
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Carlson: I think it would be cheaper for the abutters
to have the road repaired.
Chairman: Does anyone else wish to speak in opposition?
Reed : Parker C., 27 Hayes Avenue. The lot is a
piece of property which we bought to main-
tain the trees. It is not a piece of
property suitable to building. We bought
it as a means of doing our bit to keep the
trees so we would be able to keep the
supply of birds coming. We have no intention
of building. I would like to know what the
assessment means. Does it mean an increase
to the property or is it a flat charge?
Chairman: It is called a betterment assessment. A
betterment is assessed on your property.
it is put on as a lien and the theory is
that if a road is put in, your property is
bettered. If a sewer is put in, your
property is bettered and if a water main is
put in, your property is bettered. In this
Town you are assessed a betterment on all
of these services.
Reed : At $3.00 a foot, I would owe $300 for 100
feet.
Chairman: You would owe about 6270. That is recorded
at the Registry of Deeds as the maximum that
can be assessed against your property. When
the road is finished the cost IS determined
and the cost is assessed as the final better-
ment. It may be 43.00 a foot or it may go
below that.
Reed : Is there an increase in the assessed value?
Chairman: We do not have anything to do with the Board
of Assessors. If they decide your land was
more valuable they could raise the assessment.
If the street is built and this betterment
assessment is levied against you, that means
you have to pay that sum. You can pay it in
one sum or in ten payments over a period of
ten years, paying interest all the while.
That does not mean the assessment on your
property is going to be raised. The Assessors
have been going over the Town the last year
or two and raising values on land, but it
would have nothing to do with the road.
Baskin: Is this $3.00 on each side.
Burns : Three dollars on each side.
Carlson: What is the assessment against your property?
Chairman: You have a little over 175 feet so it would
be something over 4500.
Burns:
Carlson: 100 feetis one lot and 73 feet net difference
on the other, about $520.
If a private contractor could be obtained to
put in the surfacing, could that be done?
Chairman: The Town would not accept it.
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Burns: The price which is put on as a lien seems
to• bother people. Actually that price
has to cover any price we can get. In
some cases, it is put on six months be-
fore a price is obtained or the job let
out. I have never seen a job come up
to these prices. That is not to imply
that this can be done for so much less.
First you get a contractor, and there
are a lot in this Town and around, who
will do it for one-half the price when
the bid is let, but when they bid a job,
their price is right up with the other
bidders. If you did get it, that would
mean everyone would have their own street
and want the top on. We would have to
have a staff to watch it. We are just
not equipped to handle it. Most of the
contractors come in here, and they do
not come in with low bids.
Baskin: On this new development, do you have a
staff watching the laying of the bit-
uminous concrete?
Burns: Yes.
Baskin: We would pay you.
Burns: It is not a case of paying the men. It
is a case of getting the men.
Chairman: At some future time there may be a Board
that will agree to go along with the
method you gentlemen are talking about.
We have had some experience with it and
some professional advice. This Board
is determined that it will either do its
own topping or the people will do their
topping, but we won' t accept the street.
No matter what top you put in at the
Registry of Deeds, what you actually pay
for is the cost.
Baskin: This road was done according to specifications.
Chairman: I am sorry to say this is the situation.
Emery: I thought Mr. Baskin was going to give us his
final say.
Baskin: I am opposed.
Emery: You called me and I thought you wanted the
street for acceptance so I went through the
red tape to have it put on the list.
Baskin: I. did get in touch with you and at the time,
since the town was getting more out of it
than I am, I thought it should be accepted
as was and kept in repair. I have done it
for three years now.
Baskin: At that price I. am opposed.
Reed : The road stood up fairly well until the
concrete trucks were told they were not
wanted on Hancock Street. They went through
Castle Road and were responsible for chewing
up the base.
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Chairman: The people on Hancock Street took steps to
have trucks prevented from going on Hancock
Street. You have to call the State in on
a question like that.
Reed : I have probably spent 50 or more hours re-
pairing that corner of the street where
cars drive up over the sidewalk. Many
people use the street.
Carlson: You spoke about people on Hancock Street
getting rid of the trucks. They chose to
go on a private road where they had no
right to go. It seems to me the people
on Hancock Street are just as liable for
the repairs of this road as the abutters.
Chairman: That will have to be a matter that will be
discussed somewhere else. If you people
in that area think you have cause to com-
plain, you are at liberty to put in a
petition to this Board and it will get due
attention. We would immediately contact
our Town Counsel to find out what the
legal mechanics of the thing would have to
be.
Ilnery: Hancock Street is a situation of some years
standing. It is not a question of the
people stopping heavy trucking on the street
this year. It has been prohibited for a
number of years.
Chairman: I think we should not discuss this par-
ticular angle because we are holding up
several other streets.
Baskin: If we fix this street up 100% right,
would you still not accept it?
Chairman: If you would put in writing a statement
from your group that you intend to do thus
and so and send a letter to the Board, we
will give it consideration and we will
answer you. I can' t be forced to do it
off hand. My feeling would be that we
would not change our policy, but we would
take it up.
The hearing on Castle Road was declared
closed at 8:30 P.M.
Chairman: We will take the group of five streets in
one group consisting of Woodcliff a Road, Normandy
Underwood Road, Normandy Road, Munroe Munroe
Road and Hudson Road. All the streets, Hudson
as you know, are up for resurfacing with Underwood
' some drainage to be considered. Therice Woodcliffe
per linear foot of frontage would be 43.00
a linear foot. That is the maximum you
would be charged.
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This sum will be filed at the Registry of Deeds.
Woodcliffe has come in 75%, Underwood 81%,
Normandy 89%, Munroe 62% and Hudson 76%. I
don' t think there is anything further to say re
statistics. If anyone wants to know his or
her assessment, we have them all here.
Does anyone wish to speak in favor of the accept-
ance of Woodcliffe Road?
Holmes : Robert C., 11 Woodcliffe Road. I am in favor.
Campbell Charles V. , 60 Munroe Road. I am in favor. That
is going to take care of the surface drainage?
Chairman: Yes.
Weis: Joseph L. , 53 Munroe Road. Am I supposed to
voice my opinion on the one for which I am to
be assessed?
Chairman: You are going to be assessed on Woodcliffe Road.
Weis: There is a matter concerning Woodcliffe Road
that has been taken up with the Board. The
School bus has been using it and I think it
should be considered to make a decision in favor
of it. There is a school bus for Franklin School
that uses Woodcliffe Road. It has been used for
a school bus and I think it could be used again.
I am in favor of it being an approved street be-
cause of the service it has given the school.
Chairman: Does anyone else wish. to speak in favor? (None )
Is anyone opposed? (None )
Is anyone in favor of Underwood Road? (No one
in favor or in opposition.
Is anyone in favor of Normandy Road?
George H. McManic, 39 Normandy Road in favor
Donald P. Faulk, 27 Normandy Road in favor
John L. Warner, 21 Normandy Road in favor
Mrs. Charles L. Collins, 18 Normandy Road in favor
Kenneth Goudy, 41 Normandy Road in favor
No one present in opposition.
Chairman: Does anyone wish to speak in favor of the accept-
ance of Munroe Road?
Joseph L. Weis, 53 Munroe Road in favor
Fogg: Lester B. , 18 Munroe Road. I am in favor of the
surfacing. Is there any program as to the
laying of sewer mains in that area and will there
be any delay?
Chairman: If there is a delay, there will be no program.
This will be voted on at March Town Meeting. If
funds are voted the project will be advertised
for bids and probably started some time in June.
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It would seem that the sewer main situation
is a little far away from Woodhaven at the
present moment. It has not been considered
at all at the present moment.
Hendrick: Langdon C. , 21 Munroe Road. I am in favor
and would like to say that one of the
residences is occupied by a man who is now
in Korea and his wife did not feel that
she should sign the petition for him.
Mr. Sweeney did not, at this time, feel free
to sign the petition, but he did sign the
petition that was lost. As far as he knows
he will be moving.
Mr. Dwight Ladd is in Ontario and he is in
favor.
Mr. Campbell at #60 is in favor..
Chairman: Is there anyone present in opposition? (None
Hudson Road
Aiken: Robert, 4 Hudson Road. I want to extend to
the Board my thanks for the co-operation
you have shown us.
Chairman: Does anyone wish to speak in favor? (None)
' Does anyone wish to oppose? (None
Are there any further questions? (None)
The hearings closed at 8:40 P.M.
Application was received from Lee E. Tarbox, on
behalf of the Lexington Chamber of Commerce, requesting
permission to hold an annual meeting in Estabrook Hall
on Thursday, February 9th from 8:00 P.M. until 9:00 P.M.
A true record, Attest:
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