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PLANNING BOARD MEETING
SEPT. 16, 1940.
A meeting of the Planning Board was held on Monday,
Sept. 16, 1940, at 7;30 P.M. in the Town Office Building.
The minutes of the previous meeting were approved
as read.
Clematis Pond Development is to be revised by the
owners, the Lexington Lumber Co., and Mr. Knipe of that
company, and Mr. Miller, his engineer, presented a proposed
revision. They were concerned chiefly with the area next
to Child's Filling Station consisting of approximately
twenty lots, shapes and sizes of which they wished to change.
Secondly they wish to submit a reshaping of the Pond and a
reshuffling of park areas. The Planning Board advised them
to submit a complete new lay -out of the whole area.
Clematis
Pond
Development
The Executors of the Estate of Franklin D. Simonds,
represented by Mr. Worthen, presented a plan of the estate
dated August 9, 1923, F. P. Cutter, Civil Engineer, and
a revised plan of J. Bruce Lewis, May 27, 1940. Mr. Worthen
advised us, according to Chapter 181 of the Acts of 1939, Simonds
land on which tax titles have accrued can be arbitrarilly Estatee
sub -divided and sold, if the majority of the Planning Board
will approve this and will sign a drawing to that effect.
After checking the law, the Planning Board approved the
Estate's request that it be allowed to sub -divide for pur-
poses of sale, and the drawing of J. Bruce Lewis which covered
the cutting out of the t ract of possibly ten acres was
approved and signed by the Board.
Data compiled by Thayer Rudd who has been employed
by the Planning Board to make a report on Town Expenses and
income with a view to making a long -timed budget, was
presented to the Board and will be circulated for further
study. Payment of $15.00 for work to date was authorized
to Mr. Rudd.
The survey of old houses in Lexington, which the Board
is making, was laid over until the next meeting.
The matter of overhanging and non -conforming signs
was discussed and particular emphasis to the non -conforming
signs at Peterson's Gas Station on the Concord Turnpike.
Mr. Kimball raised the point that item in Paragraph
19 of the Zoning By-law, no depth was established for
business zoning, and it was his opinion that some study
should be given to this situation.
The meeting adjourned at 9:35 P.M.
Respectfully_.submitted,
Clerk, Pro -tem,
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