HomeMy WebLinkAbout1957-04-29 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 MINUTES
that the Minutes of January 7 and 22, 1957 be
approved.
The Board approved the following bills which BILLS
had been presented for payment Spaulding-Moss Co. ,
prints-436.6$, Amer. Soc. Plan. Officials, Zoning
Digest, Vol. 3--X15.00.
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 $ 00 o' clock on PUBLIC
the application for approval as a subdivision proper- HEARING
ty of Frances May Baskin known as "Loring Hill Es-
tates, Section One, Lexington, Massachusetts. " The LORING HILL
Chairman opened the hearing with the reading of the ESTATES
notice as sent to all abutting property owners and
as published in the April 1$, 1957 Lexington Minute-
man, and with a statement explaining the procedure
to be followed in conducting a hearing. Present for
the petitioner was Mrs. Baskin's 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-
division plan. Mr. Bushnell said he had no objection to
the subdivision as such . At $: 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 9:4.0 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. Gayer a letter stating the
required work in said subdivision had been completed to
his satisfaction, it was moved by Mr. Jaquith,uith, seconded
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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 Boaid 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 applcation referred to
therein, and all the lots shown on the plan
entitled "Section Fifteen of Sun Valley
Lexington, Mass. Owned by DeVries Construc-
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
base a decision must be included on said plans and
that they must be submitted with applications for
II 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