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1921
PLANNING BOARD
J. Odin Tilton
Christopher 3. Ryan
William R. Greeley
Henry L. Wadsworth
William H. Ballard
Frederic R. Galloupe
PLANNING BOARD MEETING
January 14, 1921
Messrs. Greeley and Wadsworth present.
At this meeting it was stated that the matter of specify-
ing a plan for future road construction in Lexington would
be taken up.
Er. Blodgett, the former chairman of the Finance Committee,
appeared before the Board and stated as his idea that the
Planning Board should take an active part in seeing that
definite plans for road construction be carried out from year
to year and that this Board urge each year the necessity of
a definite appropriation being made for specified road work
instead of allowing the appropriation to be made generally.
After report from the Town Engineer as to the road mileage
in the town and the number of miles of each kind of construction,
and the further discussion of the general subject of road
building, the meeting adjourned.
DEFINITIONS FOR STREET NAMES
ALLEY.
A narrow service street. Any short street thirty feet or less
in width.
AVENUE
Originally meant access to a house or building. Private drive-
way. More recently applied to a broad public street.
BOULEVARD.
A broad avenue decoratively laid out, especially with park
space in the center.
CIRCLE.
Circular junction of highways or
COURT.
Rectangular pocket off a highway.
CRESCENT.
Sime -circular pocket or short street.
EMBANKMENT.
A built up bank or terrace on the edge of a body of water.
ESPLANADE.
A flat wide area - any clear level space especially for public
walks or drives.
LANE
circular end of a single highway.
Narrow open byway or passageway of any length.
MALL
Wide level shaded walk.
PARK
Applied to public reservations only but not to highways.
PATH
A public foot -way.
PLACE
Similar to "Court". May also be applied to junction of a number
of highways.
QUADRANGLE
An open square surrounded by buildings.
ROAD
A highway connecting one settlement, neighborhood, village,
town or municipality with another, generally bearing the name
of the locality. Highway from place to place.
ROW
A short street or passage.
SQUARE
Rectangular junction of highways.
STREET
Originally a paved way. A highway forty feet wide or more which
is or has been part of a subdivision of land for building pur-
poses. A main highway of a settled portion of a town or city
may be so named. A highway in a settled place.
TERRACE
A court or short street occupying with its adjacent lots a small
plateau.
TURNPIKE
Orfginally
connecting
WALK
Similar to
"NAY
turnstiel or turnpike, that is a toll road, a road
distant points and passing through several communities.
"Path".
A highway less than forty feet wide and not exceeding one-quarter
mile in length. See "Lane.".
WIND:- A narrow lane.