HomeMy WebLinkAbout1957-04-15PLANNING BOARD MEETING
' April 15,1957
A regular meeting of the Planning Board was
held in the Town Engineerts Room, Town Office Build-
ing, on Monday, April 15, 1957 at 7:35 P.m. Present
were Chairman Grindle, Members of the Board Abbott,
Burnell, Jaquith and Soule; Mr. Snow, Planning Direc-
tor and the secretary. Mr. Adams was present from
8:40 p.m. until the end of the meeting.
The Board approved the following bills presented BILLS
for payment: Louise M. Baker, secretarial services for
period ending April 12, 1957--$25.00; Hobbs & Warren,
Inc., sheets for minute books --$7.30; Nat'l Inst. Mun.
Law Officers, copy of Municipal Regulations of Signs,
etc. --$3.04.
The Board considered the following Form A appli- FORM A
cation for Planning Board jurisdiction:
#57-44, submitted on April 11, 1957 by Bernard
Be Gould, Attorney for Frances May Baskin; plan
entitled "Plan of Land in Lexington -Mass."
Scale 1" = 40t, dated Feb. 10, 1956) Miller and
Nylander, Civil Engr's & Surveyors, Lexington -
Mass.
Special consideration having to be given to this
application, Mr. Snow was requested to confer with Mr.
Gould in regard to the exact ownership of the Baskin
property and report his findings to the Board before
it acted upon said application.
A public hearing was held at $:00 p.m. on the PUBLIC
application for approval as a subdivision property HEARING
of Antonio Busa known as "Green Valley, Section Two,
Lexington, Mass.". The Chairman read the notice of GREEN VALLEY
hearing as it was sent to all abutting property SEC. 2
owners and as it appeared in the April 4, 1957 issue
of the Lexington Minute -man. No one appeared at the
hearing either for or against the petition. The hear-
ing was declared closed and the plans taken under con-
sideration.
Read to the Board were the Board of Appeals BOARD OF
notices of petitions to be heard on April 23, 1957, APPEALS
The Board decided to withhold action on these peti- NOTICES
tions until its next meeting.
REGIONAL
SHOPPING
At 8:30 p.m. Mr. Gummere met with the Board to
discuss further the boundary lines of Filene's -
pro
CENTER
posed regional shopping center project. Mr. Gummere
PROJECT
left the meeting at 9:30 p.m. after which the Board
decided it should not determine the location of any
dffinitive boundary lines until after a public hear-
ing, that Mr., Gummere could obtain sufficient indica-
tion from various opinions expressed by members of
the Board to make a decision of his own in regard to
what boundary lines he wished to propose in his peti-
tion for re -zoning, and that the Chairman should tele-
phone the Board's decisions to Mr. Gummere.
ASSOCIATES At 9:30 P.M. Messrs. Hopkins and Priestley of
REALTY Associates Realty Trust met with the Board. A
TRUST colored line drawing of the northerly elevation of
the proposed hotel to be built by the Associates
Realty Trust was submitted. This illustration was
somewhat along the lines of Georgian colonial de-
sign and indicated among other things a modified
dining wing to accommodate a seating capacity of 35
persons. After discussing the plan in some detail
Messrs. Hopkins and Priestley left the meeting while
the Board discussed the drawing further. It was
moved, seconded and unanimously '
VOTED: That the design and type of architecture
for the proposed hotel building of the
Associates Realty Trust as shown inthe
sketch submitted to the Board on April
15, 1957 be and hereby is approved.
After taking this vote Messrs. Hopkins and Priestley
were called back to the meeting and informed of the
Board's action. Mr. Hopkins requested that he be
informed in writing of the Board's action whereupon
he and Mr. Priestley left the meeting at 10:20 p.m.
The meeting adjourned at 10:40 p.m.
Levi G. Burnell, Jr.
Clerk
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