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PLANNING BOARD
J. Henry Duffy
Edward W. Kimball
Sheldon A. Robinson
Roland B. Greeley
Lester F. Ellis
John A. Sellars
# Neil H. Borden
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Resigned
Appointed
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PLANNING BOARD MEETING
January 9, 1935
A meeting of the Planning Board was held in the Conference
Room of the Town Office Building on Wednesday, January 9, 1935
at 7:30 P. M, Messrs, Duffy, Ellis, Greeley, Kimball and
Robinson were present.
The minutes of the December 12th meeting were read and
accepted.
The Clerk's draft of the Annual Report of the Board was
read, altered, and approved when rewritten as altered.
Mr, Duffy reported from the Regional Board as follows: -
A meeting of the Board was attended by Senator Moyse of Waltham,
and by Representatives Gott and Crosby of Arlington, and Tarbell
of Lincoln, all of whom indicated that they would support the
Bill prepared by the Regional Board. Senator Cotton, of Lexing-
ton was represented as being in favor of the Bill, and it was Concord
decided to ask him to file it in the Legislature. A statement Highway
had been prepared by the Board and sent to many Boston and
suburban papers. This Bill is essential to protect the State's
investment in the Cambridge -Concord Highway, to preserve efficient
use of the highway as a major traffic artery
Mr, Duffy also pointed out that this Bill is very desirable
in spite of the Federation of Planning Boards Bills, because of
the need for expediency, specific application, and "extra teeth"
in connection with this new, practically completed, and especially
' important State Highway. The Clerk was instructed to communicate
with the Editor of the Lexington Minute -Man to this effect.
Mr. Thomas Kelley appeared before the Board to ask for a
change in zoning so that he might sell his farm produce at the
corner of East and Lowell Streets. He was referred to the Board
of Appeals, being informed that his case needed only a Board of Thomas
Appeals permit. He was further informed that a setback of Kelley
twenty feet was required, that he might sell, under a Board of
Appeals permit, only produce that he raised in Lexington. The
Board intimated that it saw no need for a business zone at that
location,
Mr. Kelley asked that the Planning Board send him a
petition form, and a description of the area that they deemed
to be affected by his proposed change. The Clerk was instructed
to write Mr, Kelley a letter with the necessary enclosures.
Discussion of the Van Ness Bates Plan showed that Mr.
Bates failed to meet such obstacles as the abandoning of the
Be & M. tracks to Lexington, the cramping of two types of trans-
portation on one narrow right-of-way, the supporting of such
elaborate schemes of transportation in view of coming tendencies
towards decentralization, Mr. Duffy pointed out that increased
transportation facilities could not be supported except on a
carefully worked out, economical transit system, correlating
all transportation facilities in Ibetropolitan Boston.
Meeting adjourned at 11:00 P. M. until Wednesday, January
16, 1935.
Respectfully submitted,
Roland B. Greeley (Signed)
Clerk