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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1957-06-03PLANNING BOARD MEETING I June 3, 1957 A regular meeting of the Planning Board was held in the Town Engineer's Room, Town Office Building on Monday, June 3, 1957 at 7:30 p.m. Present were Chair- man Grindle, Members Abbott, Burnell, Jaquith and Soule and Planning Director Snow. Town Counsel Stevens was present from 9:30 to 10:35 p.m. The Board approved the following bills which had BILLS been presented for payment: Graphic Reproductions,Inc. white prints --$1.56 and $2.40; Harper & Brothers, book -4$.00; The Athletic Institute, book --$2.50; William J. Johnson, professional services--$70-00- Taken under consideration were the following Form FORMS A A applications for determination of Planning Board jurisdiction: #57-51, submitted on May 29, 1957 by Outhet Realty Trust; plan entitled "Plan of Land in Lexington - Mass.", Scale: 111 = 401, dated May 22, 1957, ' Miller and Nylander, C.E.'s & Surveyors, Lexington, Mass. #57-52, submitted on May 31, 1957 by Thomas J. Rouner, Vice Pres. for Lexington Golf Club; plan entitled "Plan of Land in Lexington -Mass.", Scale: 1" s 501, dated Jan. 17, 1957, Miller & Nylander, C.E.'s & Surveyors, Lexington, Mass. #57-53, submitted on May 31, 1957 by Mark Moore, Jr.,for Moore Realty Trust; plan entitled "Plan of Land in Lexington -Mass.", Scale: 1" - 40', dated May 27, 1957, Miller and Nylander, C.E.'s & Sur- veyors, Lexington, Mass. It was moved, seconded and unanimously VOTED: that the plans accompanying applications #57-51, #57-52 and #57-53 be signed bear- ing the endorsement "Approval under the subdivision control law not required.". In regard to Frank M. Hodgdon's application for HODGDON determination of Planning Board jurisdiction #57-49, the Board read Mr. Hodgdon's May 30, 1957 reply to the Board's may 27, 1957 letter. It was decided to take no action in regard to the Hodgdon letter until after June 24, 1957. SPECIAL Read also was the Board of Selectmen's May 29, TOWN 1957 letter to the Planning Board setting a tenta- MEETING tive date of June 24, 1957 for a special town meet- ing to consider an amendment to the zoning by-law to provide for a regional shopping district. GREELEY AND At 7:50 p.m. Messrs. Roland Greeley and Burn - KELLY ham Kelly met with the Board to discuss the former's May 25, 1957 letter to Chairman Grindle in regard to the proposal, as published in the Lexington Min- ute -man, to amend the Lexington Zoning By-law to provide for regional shopping center districts. Discussion centered around two major points Mr. Greeley made in his letter; namely, the provision for only one type of use of the area proposed for re -zoning, and the treatment of the entire proposed zoning district as a single lot. The gentlemen named above left the meeting at 9:00 p.m. TAX TITLE Having investigated various matters in re - LOTS gard to the sale of tax title lots listed in the Selectmen's April 26, 1957 letter to the Planning Board, Mr. Snow discussed the problems involved in exchanging some or all of these lots for a tract of land the Planning Board had previously recommended for acquisition for playground purposes, said tract ' being owned by Antonio Busa. Particularly dis- cussed were the Planning Board's letters of Jan. 16 and December 17, 1956 to the Selectmen in regard to the acquisition of the Busa tract located north- easterly of Anthony Road and bounded in part by Circle Road and the Great Meadows. In view of the many details the Board had to discuss in regard to the proposed regional shopping districts amend- ment to the Zoning By-law, it was decided to post- pone further consideration of the exchange of land until after the latter part of June. OAK HILL The Board considered the May 27, 1957 letter ESTATES from the Sandy Brook Corp. in regard to the Board's tentative approval of the Oak Hill Estates pre- liminary subdivision plan. Read to the Board, approved by the same, and signed by the chairman was the draft of a letter dated June 3, 1957 to said corporation stating that in approving the prelimi- nary plan it was the intent of the Planning Board that "A" Street be constructed 50 feet in width be- ginning at the rear lot lines of Patterson and Bond roads as shown on said plan, the remaining road between said lots to be 40 feet wide. , Mr. Stevens came to the meeting at 9:30 p.m. ' at which time he and Mr. Snow discussed with the Board the need for a survey of the land to be given to the town for a recreation area by the DeVries Construction Co. of Wakefield, The principle Points discussed were the difficulties of writing a deed based upon the acquisition by DeVries of the former Pleasant Associates lands, some of said lands having been developed into numerous parcels and subsequently conveyed by the DeVries Co., and the rights to land between the new and old Winches- ter town line. L' 1 SUN VALLEY RECREATION AREA It was decided that in view of the poor de- scriptions of the easterly boundary lines for the proposed sites, that a survey should be made of said boundary lines, said survey being considered a necessary part of the cost in connection with obtain- ing an option on said land. It was decided to have Mr. Robert G. Venne survey the boundary lines and that before this was done Pair. Stevens was to obtain definite assurance from the DeVries Construction Co.'s attorney that the Town was going to obtain the land and that steps would be taken so that said land could not be attached before the town took title to the property. Considered next was the application of Mrs. Baskin for approval of the definitive plan entitled "Loring Hill Estates Section One, Lexington -Mass." It was decided that Mr. Stevens would inform Mr. Ernest J. Corrigan that if he would assume the obli- gations of the applicant, as he wished to do, and furnish the necessary bond that the Planning Board was in a position to approve said definitive plan. It was decided also to ask Supt. of Public Works Gayer to prepare a plan to show all sewer easements within said subdivision so that these could be con- veyed to the Town prior to the subdivision approval and so that the Land Court could make a registration of said land subject to the Town's trunk line sewer easement. It was further decided that the Planning Board would write a letter to the Selectmen stating that the Board understood that the Selectmen would take the necessary steps to have the town construct a street from Waltham Street to the boundary line of the Baskin land where it would meet the street to be built in the subdivision by the subdivider, the town being obligated to construct a Boad of Survey street as covered by a written agreement between the Lexing- ton Estates Trust and the Town of Lexington, dated September 22, 1947. LORING HILL ESTATES Mr. Stevens left the meeting at 10:35 p.m. at ' which time the Board discussed arrangements and pro- cedures for the public hearing to be held June 6, 1957 in regard to proposals to amend the Lexington Zoning By-law to create regional shopping center districts. The meeting adjourned at 10:50 p.m. Levi G. Burnell, Jr. Clerk i [1