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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1957-04-291 1 1 PLANNING BOARD MEETING April 29, 1957 A regular meeting of the Planning Board was held in the Town Engineer's Room, Town Office Building, on Monday, April 29, 1957 at 7:30 p.m. Present were Chairman Grindle, Members Abbott, Burnell, Jaquith and Soule; Planning Director Snow and the secretary. Mr. Stevens was present from 9:40 until 10:00 p.m. It was moved, seconded and unanimously voted that the Minutes of January 7 and 22, 1957 be approved. The Board approved the following bills which had been presented for payment: Spaulding -Moss Co., prints -436.6$; Amer. Soc. Plan. Officials, Zoning Digest, Vol. 3-415.00. MINUTES BILLS Taken under consideration was Mr. W. D. Kingery's April 22, 1957 letter renewing his request that the HANCOCK Hancock Heights development be completed on schedule. HEIGHTS It was decided to notify Mr. Kingery that the Board will keep the matter in mind and notify him at a later date if Mr. Moore has not taken any further action in regard to completing his development on schedule. A public hearing was held at 8:00 o'clock on the application for approval as a subdivision proper- ty of Frances May Baskin known as "Loring Hill Es- tates, Section One, Lexington, Massachusetts." The Chairman opened the hearing with the reading of the notice as sent to all abutting property owners and as published in the April 18, 1957 Lexington Minute- man, and with a statement explaining the procedure to be followed in conducting a hearing. Present for the petitioner was Mrs. Baskints attorney, Mr. Bernard B. Gould. Present also were Mr. Ernest J. Corrigan, who had a sales agreement to purchase the Baskin land, Mr. Win S. Couette, Realtor, and Mr. Marshall Bushnell, an abutting property owner. Most of the discussion centered around a means of access to the property across High School lands and an agreement between Mr. Ryder and the Town of Lexington, in which the Town agreed to construct a Board of Survey street from Waltham Street to the Baskin (formerly Ryder) property. It was decided to obtain a copy of this agreement from the Town Counsel and discuss the matter further with him before arriv- ing at any decision in regard to the submitted sub - PUBLIC HEARING LORING HILL ESTATES SUBDIVISION Mr. Snow was authorized to proceed with studies of PLANS informal plans which involved locations of roads included in preliminary master plan studies. Where other plans had been submitted for informal opinions the Board decided to maintain its policy that sufficient data upon which to 1 1 1 division plan. Mr. Bushnell said he had no objection to the subdivision as such. At 8:30 the hearing was declared closed and the,plan taken under advisement. WATSON The Board next held a discussion in regard to un - REALTY completed work in several subdivisions. Read to the TRUST Board, approved by the same and signed by the Vice- chairman was a draft of a letter dated April 29, 1957 and addressed to Watson Realty Trust calling its atten- tion to the fact that the work in this subdivision should have been completed almost four months ago, and asking the Trust to take measures to have this work completed at an early date. There being no further need of her services, the secretary was dismissed at this time. SUN VALLEY Mr. Stevens came to the meeting at 9:40 p.m. at SEC. 15 which time he gave to the Board a confirmed copy of a duly executed instrument in which the DeVries Construction Co.,,Inc. granted to the Towh easements and utilities in the subdivision known as Sun Valley Section 15. Having previously received from Mr. Gaper a letter stating the required work in said subdivision had been completed to his satisfaction, it was moved by Mr. Jaquith, seconded by Mr. Burnell and unanimously VOTED: to execute a Certificate of Performance that the ways and other improvements required under the Rules and Regulations of the Plan- ning Board and referred to in the condi- tional approval contract executed by DeVries Construction Co., Inc., dated October 30, 1956, have been constructed and installed in the manner specified in and in accordance with the terms of the appleation referred to therein, and all the lots shown on the plan entitled"Section Fifteen of Sun Valley Lexington, Mass. Owned by DeVries Construe - tion Co., Inc." are hereby released. RECREATION Mr. Stevens left the meeting at 10:00 p.m. at which COMMITTEE time the Board discussed the Planning Director's work load, particularly in regard to administration and sub- division control work and the submission of 'preliminary and informal plans. With reference to the preliminary plan submitted by Messrs. McCormack and Brun, the Board decided to meet on May 6, 1957 with the newly organized Recreation Committee to discuss with it the possible ac- quisition for recreation purposes of a portion of the land within said proposed subdivision. SUBDIVISION Mr. Snow was authorized to proceed with studies of PLANS informal plans which involved locations of roads included in preliminary master plan studies. Where other plans had been submitted for informal opinions the Board decided to maintain its policy that sufficient data upon which to 1 1 1 base a decision must be included on said plans and that they must be submitted with applications for tentative approval. A discussion was held in regard to Board policy REGIONAL on the submission of data by Filene's and the evalua- SHOPPING tion of said data by the Planning Board prior to a CENTER public hearing to be held on the rezoning proposal. It was decided that Mr. Snow would have prepared for the Board examples of portions of zoning ordinances which might serve as guides in the formulation of a possible new section of the Lexington Zoning By -Law. The meeting adjourned at 10:30 p.m. Levi G. Burnell, Jr. Clerk 1 1