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Home My WebLink About1957-03-04 F L..i\N I IX G BOARD MEETING ' March 4., 1957 regular meeting of the Planning Board was held in the Town Engineer' s Room, Town Office Building on Monday , March 4 , 1957 at 7 30 p.m. Present were Chair- man Hat:_away, I,essrs. Abbott , Adams , Grindle, and Jaquith, and iIr Snow, Planning; Director. Town Counsel Stevens was present from 10: 15 to 10 30 p.m. , Iir. Burnell from 10. 30 to 11 00 p.m. Annroved by the Board, Mr. Adams not voting, were the follow .ng bills presented for payment Louise M. BILLS Baker, secretarial services , Period ending March 1, 1957--1'5 00 , Samuel P . Snow, car allowance and reim- bursement for postage for iebruary-- 25 02, Minute- man Publications , Inc. , advertising—M9. 80, L .E.I1uran Co , duplicator 1'lui 1 and paper-412.15 , Mary G.Camp- bell, typing--15 .00 Taken unr'er consideration was the following appli- cation for Planning 'Ioard jurisdiction r'ORM A SHORT .f57-24, submitted on February 27, 1957 by V. L. ' Connolly, attorney for Edith L. Short , plan entitled the same as that accompanying application #57-3. (See minutes of Januar- 14., 1957 meeting. ) Since the Board endorsed the original plan, alter- ations had been ma e to said plan by enlarging Lot 2A. _.r. Sno• was instructed to chane the date of endorse- ment to that of ,:.arch 4 , l�57. Thereupon it was moved, seconded and unanimously VOTED That the plan accompanying application 1157-24 be sirued bearin- the endorsement "Lexjr:-toc. Planning Br'ard approval not required under the Subdivision Control Law " Read to the Board were l:r Roland C. Greeley' s letters of February 2&, 1957 addressed to Mrs. Iiarek, Chairman oi the School Com-nittee and Mr. Snow, SCHOOL Planning Director n regard to conclusions reached SITES a the joint meeting of the Planning Board and representatives of the School and School Sites Com- mittee held on rebruary 25, 1957. The Board agreed that the letters set iorth substantially what con- clusions have been reached et said joint meeting. At $ 00 n.m. members oi the Recreation Committee, its secretary and Mr. Samborski, Rccreation Director, met with the Planning Board to discuss the need for and possibility of acquiring additional land for recreational purposes Reviewed were the Board's January 23, 1957 HARRINGTON letter to the School Committee and Supt. Smith' s reply SCHOOL of February 5 , 1057, copies of which the Board had PLAYGROUND sent to each member of the Recreation Committee. SITE Committee members stated that they thought it most important to acquire additional land for recreational use contiguous with the Harrington School site and decided to discuss with the School Committee its plans for expansion oi the school. The Board furnished the Recreation Committee with a copy of Mr Paul McCormack' s study plan for developing the land adjacent to the school site There was also a discussion of the Planning Board' s activities relative to recreation areas With RECREATION reference to the Recreation Committee created by the COi'IdITTEE november 19, 1957 Special Tou'n T•Leeting under a new Town 3v-law, the lollopring conclusions were reached 1. That the Planning Board will continue to seek desirable locations and tracts for use as recreatiDnal areas 2 That the Planni.nc Board will make recommenda- tions to the Board oi Selectmen and Recreation Committee as to their acquisition for such purposes 3. That the Planning Board does not consider that the physical development of these areas is within its province after acquisition by the Town. 4 That the Board of Selectmen or the Recreation Committee acting through the Board of Select- men, h,,s the responsibility for such physical development if said Board recommends (and the Town acquires) the Individual tracts for recreation purposes . At $ 30 p.m the Board with the exception of Chairman Hathaway met in joint session with the ZONING Selectmen to hear Mr. Gummere and Mr. Holmes present PROPOSAL a re-zoning proposal for Lexington (See the Select- men' s minutes for a record of said joint session ) At 10 15 p.m. the Board returned to its own meet- ing in the Toi= .. Engineer' s Room. At this time T•lr Stevens met ,,d th the Board to discuss Leeland Con- struction Co. ' s grant oi easement to Barbara Anderson across land which is proposed to be Lot 5 of the Rob- ROBINSON inson Hill Section 3 plan . Mr. Stevens was given a HILL copy of the grant for the purpose of making a recom- SECTION III mendation to the Board in regard to noting the existence of said easement on the Section 3 plan. Kr Stevens left at 10 30 p.m. at which time Mr,, Burnell came to the Fleeting. The Board took under consideration Mr. Gennaro Capaldi' s 1,,arch 1, 1957 letter requesting a change COLONIAL of performance guarantee zrcm a conditional approval ACRES contract to a performance bond for the remaining work to be completed in the Colonial Acres subdivision. The Board approved and signed a previously drafted letter dated March 4, 1957 in which it was stated that the Board agreed to substitute a bond in lieu of a conditional approval contract provided said bond is secured by a certified check in the amount of 316,000.00 and an agreement is entered into to complete the work in the subdivision by October 1, 1957 Mr. Jaquith left the meeting at 10 40 p.m. at which time the Board took under consideration Mr. Antonio Busa' s application for tentative approval of GREEN a preliminary plan entitled "Green Valley Section 2." VALLEY It was moved by Mr. Grindle, seconded by Mr. SECTIO, II Burnell, and unanimously VOTED That the preliminary subdivision plan entitled "Plan Showing Proposed Lot- ting Green Valley - Section Two Lex- ington - Mass ," dated Feb. 12, 1057, submitted on bebruary 15, 1957, to- gether -ith an application for tenta- tive approval, Form B, dated February 15, 1957, be and hereby is approved. " The meeting adjourned at 10 50 p.m. Donald D. Hathaway, Chair n m. (See next page. ) Amu6aok a At the conclusion of the meeting the members present gave Mr. Hathaway a vote of thanks, expressing to him their deep appre- ciation of the work he had done both as a member and later as Chairman of the Board, as well as the satisfaction they had had in their association and work together during the past years. These sentiments were also expressed by the undersigned. 91""----- Samue . gno$ Planning Director