HomeMy WebLinkAbout1932-10-10PLATINTING 30AF L NLF .TING
October 10, 1932
A meeting of the Planning Board was held in the Confer-
ence Room of the Town Office Building, Monday, October 10, 1932.
rviessrs. Scheibe, Emery, I,Iilne, Cutler, Luffy and. Glynn were present.
The Town Engineer and secretary were also present,
.sir. Emery stated that Mr. Greeley had drawn an exact plan
of the building shown by Mr. Mitchell to fit in the triangle at
the corner of 1,7oburn Street and Fletcher Avenue. He had everything
in the sketch that was in Mr. Mitchellts and two or three more rooms.
A letter was read. from the Selectmen stating that the
original committee on securing a site for a Fire Headquarters met
with the Board of Selectmen, Tuesday, October 4, 1932 and considered
the suggestion of the Planning Board to make use of the property
owned by Daniel J. O'Connell at the junction of ;oburn Street and
Pletcher Avenue. It ;^;as the unanirious opinion of the combined boards
that this site is not large enough to meet the requirements of a
Fire Headquarters Building and the necessarti land_ needed for out- Fire
side actiTrities of the department. St tion
The Flannin B a d `"l- 4-'t,,t th h ld r id
g o r a Uy s V .ave some ea
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as to hat other towns ha7.re. e'r. Emery said he thought the con-
templated building -;as suite large enough for a town the size of
Lexington.
Th_ other proposed site if 11r. Blake I s property on v;altham
Street where there is no more land than there is in the triangle
in question. Nor. Taylorb idea of a better site is the Fletcher
house ,
141r. Cosgrove presented his estimate of expense for the
extension of Sherman Street to Foburn Street which amounted to
413e41.00. e stated that he had_ talked with ITAr. Shepard, Con- Sherman St
su1tin,- Engineer of the Boston & Nalne Railroad, who thought the Extension
road should. go over the railroad-. The road at this point would
have to be ralsec lwenty-tvro feet. Yr. Cosgrove stated that he
suggest d raising the grade of the railroad six feet and lowering
'i+oburn Street about threly^ feet. It was decided- that 10'r. Shepard
would make a survey of the crossing and make a comparison of costs.
If Fletcher avenue were closed it would do away with another grade
crossing.
The
Mr. fiery stated that he had talked with Mr. Smith of
of apartment houses
Bias brought
the School Co._,mittee regarding the Russell House property being
cussion. It
is thought
saved for a school house. Mr. Smith seemed to think that 90%
allows the
building
of the present schools did not have enough area. The Adams School
is the only on- that meets with the requirements for area. „r,
Russell
Smith's ideal place for a school Is on some back road where they
House
could have t,.+rent,.- or thirty acres of land. The School Committee
property
would not consider putting a school building on the Russell House
property. If it were taken at all, it would be used for a play-
ground.
Mr. Glynn stated that he thought someone might still
come in and run it as a hotel because it is the only one in town.
141r. Cosgrove presented his estimate of expense for the
extension of Sherman Street to Foburn Street which amounted to
413e41.00. e stated that he had_ talked with ITAr. Shepard, Con- Sherman St
su1tin,- Engineer of the Boston & Nalne Railroad, who thought the Extension
road should. go over the railroad-. The road at this point would
have to be ralsec lwenty-tvro feet. Yr. Cosgrove stated that he
suggest d raising the grade of the railroad six feet and lowering
'i+oburn Street about threly^ feet. It was decided- that 10'r. Shepard
would make a survey of the crossing and make a comparison of costs.
If Fletcher avenue were closed it would do away with another grade
crossing.
The
cutstion
of apartment houses
Bias brought
up for dis-
cussion. It
is thought
that w!, -_n the Board
allows the
building
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Planning Boarif �-'.eting October 10, 1932
of ap rtment hours, Lexington will gror rapidly. The ouestion
is, do 17-_-� tva-nt the Town full of apartment houses or would we
rather have it !vithoug any. There is ample room for them now in
business areas. !'r. Buffy stated that from the standpoint of Fpartment
a few of our rest( eats, it is an importr'nt thing*. but from the Houses
si;a_nclpoi.nt c)f the Toivn,i_t is a rrinoi matter. When there is real
de -and, it is thouEht that areas should be set off In residential
districts and restrictions laid town.
A letter was received from 1.r. Earl Johnson, who is n0W
occupying the Fiv<- Forks Gar -..,Pe stating that Mr. Alfred Davis
is carrying on an automobile repair business at his home on School
Street which is in a residential district. This letter was turn- Earl
ed o7,e3-" to the uuilding Inspector and bir. Johnson was advised to o nson
this effect.
hr. Cosgrove presented a plan of the Golden Guernsey
Fara anc�, stated that the owner wanted to divide it up into house Golden
lots. i.fter discussing the matter, the 3oare decided that no Guernsey
restrictions could be placed upon him as long as he goes by the Farm
plan as presented..
Yr. E-ery stated that he had talked with lir. Wrighting-
ton reg riling Vine Brook and ra.s informed that it was best to
mal -e tre takings just as though the Town were going to construct
a street, The thing, to do is to see what the property oluners will
donate first. :.r. Emery asked the Town Engineer if he had done
ant -thing on this project ar d he replied that he had been working
on the star TealtevelopTr.ent ani did not have time to do any
work on `Tine Brook. He stat-.,"' that he the best thing to do was
to make a plan of wl.iat the Tow;, wRnts and have it on file in the
Engineer's office because a developer usually goes there first Vine
asking for something. T}1en the Town should ask for what they Brook
i*.,ant. It might be possible, if the number of owners was com-
paratively s, -call and if we hed a plan of what the lovin wants, to
mal=.e them waive their viows.
ir. Cosgrove also stated that the State is making the
takings now for the Concord Avenue Highway and will construct
in t;,- Spring. The plans show now that the street will go as
follows: coming into Lexington at the r_rlington line and Bow-
man Street, fo7.lo-cring Do, -,man Street and crossing :atertown Street
1:,here 3owman Street no:i intersepts it; tl^.en traveling westerly Concord
and by the souther'_,T side of i'ateh's fond, crossing Pleasant St. Avenue
just so"at"'West of Clematis Brook, thence cutting diagonally thru ,
DeVincent's Garden and across '.'ellington Lane Avenue to a point Highway
on 31ossom Street vrh-rme a cottage now stands belonging to 'Futchinson
Brot'.ers, crossing Blossom Street at a point along the northerly
slope of the hill to a point at Naltham Street just northerly of
the intersection of Blossom Street. Thence running generally para-
lell with Concord Avenue distant about 300 yards, therefrom to a
point at Old Shade Street. At this point the road starts to bear
more southerly in order to come into the present Concord kvenue
approxi.rately"1,000 feet southeasterly of Spring Street From
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