HomeMy WebLinkAbout1935-01-16 PLANNING BOARD MEETING
January 16,1935
A regular meeting of the Planning Board was held in the
Town Office Building on Wednesday evening, January 16, 1935,
at 8:00 P. M. Messrs. Duffy, Ellis, Greeley, Kimball, and
Robinson were present.
The minutes of the January 9th meeting were read and
approved.
The Town Treasurer's Balance Sheol for Planning Board
Expenditures for 1934 was approved, and the estimate for 1935
was drawn up and passed. The aunt asked for was $200.00.
Mr. Duffy reported that the Selectmen of Lexington were
apparently in favor of the Regional Board's Bill, two or three
of them having expressed a desire that there should be little
or no business on the New Highway. Concord
After discussion of the Bill, Mr. Duffy suggested that
Mr. Cosgrove be asked to prepare a strip map of the new high- Highway
way, in order to facilitate and encourage desirable develop-
ment, rather than to try to discourage undesirable develop-
ment by means of action of the By-Laws.
The Planning Board determined that the following area
would be affected by Mr. Thomas Kelley's proposed change in
zoning: -
' The land bordering on both sides of
Lowell Street from Woburn Street to North Street,
East Street from Grant Street to the Town line,
Laconia Street throughout,
Ridge Road throughout, Kelley
and all land included in the business zones at the
intersections of Lowell Street with Woburn Street and. Petition
with North Street.
The Clerk was instructed to write Mr. Kelley to that
effect, and to enclose other information necessary for Mr.
Kelley's petition.
Mr. Duffy read a letter from the Secretary of the Reading
Planning Board inviting Lexington to be represented at a Circum-
joint meeting in Reading on January 21, 1935, to discuss the ferential
layout of proposed State Highway #128. Mr. Duffy and Mr. Highway
Kimball offered to go, weather permitting.
Discussion of the possibility of recommending to the
Town that part of the property bounded by the New Highway,
Watertown Street and the Town Park on Watertown Street re-
sulted in the decision that the Board should advise the Watertown
Board of Selectmen to consider the purchase of part or all
of the land bounded as follows:- Street
Beginning at the southeastern corner of the Town Park,
T running in an approximately easterly direction, being the
direction of the continuation of the southern boundary of
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the park, about 1100 feet to the New Highway; thence along the
New Highway to Watertown Street; along Watertown Street to the
park, but leaving out the Norton property.
Nesting adjourned at 11:00 P. N.
Respectfully submitted,
Roland B. Greeley,
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