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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1957-02-11 PL^nT:.G BOARD MEETING rebruary 11, 1957 k regular meeting of the Planning Board was held in the Town Engineer' s Room, Town Office Building, on Monday, February 11, 1957 at 7 35 p m. Present were Chairman Hathaway, Messrs Abbott, Adams, Burnell, Grindle and Jaquith and Mr. Snow, Planning Director. The minutes of April 9, 1956 and rebruary 4, 1957 MINUTES were approved. Approved also were the following bills which had been presented for payment Bruce E. Howlett, pro- BILLS fessional services , period ending Feb. 7, 1957-- $155.15 , Louise M. Baker, secretarial services, period ending Feb.7, 1957-425 .00 , H.B. 4cArdle, office supplies-410. 50. Taken under consideration were the following Form A applications for determination of Planning Board jurisdiction £57-15 , submitted on February 7, 1957 by George FORMS A J. DeVries for DeVries Construction Co. , Inc. , plan entitled "Plan of Land in Lexington Mass. Revision of a Portion of Section 14 , Sun Valley, " Scale 1" • 40' , dated Jan. 22, 1Q57, R. G. Venne, Engineer. #57-16, submitted on February 7, 1957 by Mary E. Stankard , plan entitled "Plan of Land in Lexing- ton, Mass . ", Scale 1" • 40' , dated Sept. 1$, 1956, Fred A. Joyce, Surveyor, Belmont, Mass. #57-17, submitted on reb. 7, 1°57 by Clifford D. Fleming, plan entitled "Plan of Land in Lexington- Mass . " Scale 1" • 20' , dated Jan. 14, 1957, I-Biller & ieglander, Civil Engr' s & Surveyors-Lex- ington, Mass. #57-1$, submitted on February 11, 1957 by Harold E. Stevens for the Town of Lexington, plan en- titled "Plan of Land on Grove Street in Lexington Mass. ", Scale 1" = 40' , dated Jan. 22, 1957, Richard J. Gayer, Town Engineer. After due consideration of the above plans, it was moved, seconded, and unanimously VOTED That the plans accompanying applications ' #57-15, #57-17, and -1$ be signed bear- ing the endorsement "Lexington Planning Board approval not required under the Sub- division Control Law. " In regard to the plan accompanying the Stankard application, it was notedthat while said application stated that Lot 1 was to be added to Lot A, there was no assurance that the buyer would not eventually wish to build on Lot 1 fronting on Bacon Street. The Board decided that said private way does not have STANKARD sufficient widths and adequate construction to pro- vide for the needs of vehicular traffic , etc The Board decided further that because of these condi- tions it would have to determine that the plan does require subdivision approval unless Mrs. Stankard and her brother , Mr. Bevington, signed an agreement to be recorded with the plan that Lots A and 1 are deemed to be combined into one lot for all purposes . Mr. Snow was asked to discuss the matter with Mrs. Stankard and to suggest that she may wish to with- draw her application until such time as an agree- ment could be drawn or some other arrangement made in regard to the plan. The Board reviewed its January 23, 1957 letter to the School Committee calling to the attention of the committee the imminent possibility of a subdivi- HARRINGTON sion being developed on three sides of the Harrington SCHOOL School grounds and suggesting that the committee may SITE wish to acquire additional land for the school be- fore the development takes place. Read to the Board was Supt. Smith' s February 5 reply that the present site was adequate for school needs, that the Recrea- tion Committee might wish to establish a more exten- sive playground program on the site and therefore need more land, and the matter might be presented to said committee for a recommendation from that group. It was decided that Chairman Hathaway would arrange for a meeting with the Recreation Committee in re- gard to Mr. Smith' s letter. Considered also was Mr. Alfred P. Tropeano's February 7, 1Q57 letter in which he requested that the Planning Board inform him in writing what it was HAWTHORNE going to recommend in regard to sidewalks and the ACRES width of surfacing of streets in the Hawthorne Acre subdivision. He wished this information before his clients, Esco Builders, entered into a purchase and sales agreement with the Town for a junior high school site. In answer to this request the Board decided to reaffirm its previous statement that all streets within the subdivision were to be 50 feet 2,-1)-S.7 II in width and that the roads from Adams Street into the school site and to Pihl' s land would be required to have sidewalks on both sides of the road. In addition it was decided that the other streets would have sidewalks on one side of the road, that all side- walks were to be 5 feet wide and that all road pave- ments were to be 24 feet in width. The Board approved a draft of its annual report ANNUAL to the Selectmen and the Planning Director' s report REPORT which was appended to and made part of its report. Mr. Snow reported on the progress of the Boston National Historic Sites Commission 11.1d was authorized HISTORIC to spend two days full time during the week in fur- SITES thering the work of its most active project. The Board considered the application of Tech- built, Inc. for tentative approval of its preliminary TECHBUILT- plan for Section 3 of its Middle Ridge development . MIDDLE It was moved, seconded, and unanimously RIDGE SEC. III VOTED- That the preliminary subdivision plan entitled "Plan of Proposed Lotting in Lexington, ..Lass. , " revised January 3, 1957, submitted on January 14, 1957 be and hereby is approved subject to the following conditions (1) that "B" Street be realigned approximately be- tween stations 15+00 and 24+00 to elim- inate confluent 10% grades and improve site distance , ( 2) that "C" Street be realigned at the Turning Mill Road in- tersection in order that "C" Street may join said road at a right angle. It was also decided in notifying Techbuilt of the Board ' s conditional approval of the Section 3 plan that the Board believed additional studies might produce a scheme which took better advantage of the topography and that r. Snow was authorized to discuss the matter further with Techbuilt representatives should the corporation wish toexplore these possibili- ties further . The meeting adjourned at 10 30 p.m. to meet with the Selectmen to discuss the Board' s budget for 1957. • Levi G. Burnell, Jr. Clerk