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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 v: — 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 -2.. 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 •