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PLANNING BOARD MEETING
January 7, 1057
A regular meeting of the Planning Board was
held in the Town 7ngineer's Room, Town Office Build-
ing, on Mondav, January 7, 1957 at 7:35 n.m. Pres-
ent were Chairman Hathaway, Messrs. Abbott, Adams,
Burnell, Grindle and Jaquith; Planning Pirector Snow,
and the secretary, Mrs. Milliken. .
The Board approved the following bills which
had been presented for palTment: Spaulding -Moss Co., BILLS
tracing na er--'7.60; Mary G. Campbell, secretarial
services -10.00; Anne H. Milliken, secretarial ser-
vices --x,.00.
The Board also approved tre minutes of its
meeting on December 26, 1956.
The following, Form. A aonlication was taken
under consideration for determination of Planning
Board jurisdiction:
#t57-1, submitted on Jan. 2, 19[7 by Joseph
C. Hurley; plan entitled "A Compiled Plan of
Land in Lexington, Mass.", Scale: 1" = 201,
dated Dec. 7, 1956, Miller and ?dylander,
C.E.'s & Surveyors, Lexington, Mass.
It was moved,s econded and unanimously
VOT_TM : that the plan accompanying Applica-
tion #57-1 be signed bearin!* the en-
dorsement "Lexington Planning Board
anproval not required under subdivi-
sion control law."
Mr. '.dans arrived at the meeting at 7:40.
Taken under consideration next was the Janu-
ary 3, 1957 application of the Associates Realty
Trust for a determination that the "plans constitute
a desirable develonment In accordance with the Town
Zoning By-laws." Said application was accompanied
by a January 3,1°57 letter addressed to the Board
and signed by John F. CTroden, Mrs. Seaburv's attor-
ney, statin; that Mrs. Seabury had that day deliv-
ered to the Associates Fealt=- Trust a deed of land
' upon which the hotel was proposed to be constructed
and that all other deeds of land, easements from
Mrs. Seabury, the Town of Lexincrton and the Metho-
FORM A
ASSOCIATES
REALTY
TRUST
HOTEL PLAN
dist Church have been delivered and recorded as of said ,
date. Mr. Groden wrote in addition that on said date
he had delivered to the Town Counsel the option for pur-
chase by the Town the so-called Parcel C of the Seabury
land on the easterly side of Route 128.
All matters appearing to be in order in regard
to the application, It was decided to hold a -public hears
ing on said application on January 30, 197 at 8:00 p.m.
in Estabrook Hall.
Mr. Jaquith arrived at 7:45 P.M.
The Board discussed newspaper articles in the
December 23, 1956 issues of the Boston Globe and Herald
quoting Mr. Hopkins' statements in regard to the pro-
posed hotel, some of these statements which he accredited
to Messrs. Adams and Hathaway. Discussed also was Mr.
Hopkins' January 3,1957 letter to Engineering News -Record
asking that a correction be made in its listing which
appeared in the January 31 1957 issue of said -periodical
in regard to industrial buildings and develop-
proposed
ment proposed by Stephen Hopkins Assoc.,Ine. on land at
the junction of Routes 128 and 2 A.
It was decided that there should be published in
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the January 24, 1957 issue of the Lexi-gton Minute -man
an article setting forth the facts in regard to the case,
refuting the statements made in the periodicals men-
tioned above, and announcing the date and place of the
public hearinn, to be held under the town's zoning by-law.
Taken under consideration next were the notices
BOARD OF
of public hearings in regard to petitions to be heard by
APPEALS
the'Board. of Appeals on January 22, 1957. It was de -
NOTICES
tided to go on record as onnosIng the granting of Richard
H. Soule and Albert Ampolo, the Dorothy C. Coburn, and
the Associates Pealt« Trust petitions and to write
letters to the Board of Appeals setting forth the Plan-
ning Board's reasons for such opposition. For the
Board's final consideration Mir. Snow was asked to draft
said letters from the secretary's transcribed notes.
From 8:25 to 8:50 p.m. the Board met with the
TOWN
Selectmen and the Board of Assessors to discuss the
MAP
progress report and recommendations in regard to the
preparation of town mans as set forth in the Planning
Board's January 3, 1957 letter to the Selectmen. (See
the Selectmen's minutes for a record of this confer-
ence.)
Discussed in detail was a list of conflicts in
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street names which it was thought might be considered
for an article in the warrant for the Annual Town
Meeting, After reducing the list considerably by elim-
inating less important conflicts, it was decided to
give the matter further consideration at the next meet-
ing of the Board.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:30 p.m.
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Levi G. (Burnell, J
Clerk
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