HomeMy WebLinkAbout1957-09-03PLANNING BOARD MEETING
' September 3, 1957
A regular meeting of the Lexington Planning Board
was held in the Town Engineer's Room, Town Office
Building, on Mondav, September 3, 1957 at 7:35 p.m.
Present were Chairman Grindle, Members Abbott, Burnell
and Jaquith, and Planning Director Snow.
Taken under consideration was the following
FORM A
Form A application for determination of Planning Board
jurisdiction:
#57-82, submitted on September 3, 1957 by John F.
Cahill; plan entitled "Plan of Land Lexington, Mass.",
dated August 24, 1957, Scale: 40 feet to an inch,
Joseph Selwyn, C.E., Belmont, Mass.
It was moved, seconded and unanimously
VOTED: that the plan accompanying application
#57-82 be signed bearing the endorse-
ment "Lexington Planning Board approval
under the Subdivision Control Law not
required."
Considered next were the names of streets in the
BURNHAM
Burnham Farms, Sec. 1 subdivision. It was moved by
FARMS
Mr. Abbott, seconded by Mr. Burnell and unanimously
SEC. 1
VOTED: to approve the name "Emerson Road" for
the 70 -foot wide way and the name "Burn-
ham Road" for the way connecting Emerson
Road with East Street.
Read to the Board was Deputy Fire Chief Bel-
ASSOCIATES
castro's August 31, 1957 letter approving the plans
REALTY
submitted by Associates Realty Trust for a proposed
TRUST
hotel to be located northwesterly of the Route 2 A-
HOTEL PLANS
Route 128 intersection. The Board then examined all
the sheets of the revised set of plans which had
been submitted for its consideration including those
prepared to show ventilation and lighting details in
bathrooms as requested by Building Inspector Irwin in
his August 26,1957 letter to the Planning Board. It
was determined that the set of plans was incomplete in
that the building site plan was only in preliminary
form and that no plot plan of the property had been
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submitted. Especially noted was the fact that maid
located in the basement were not in conformity
rooms
with the Lexington Zoning By-law stipulation that
"no sleeping rooms shall be located below the mean
finished grade of the ground adjoining the building."
Mr. Snow was asked to confer with the architect, Mr. '
Manaselian, in regard to finding a solution to this
problem and to inform him that the Board was in a
position to approve the hotel plans as soon as two
complete sets of plans, including a plot plan and a
final site plan satisfactory to the Board, was filed
with said Board.
WESTLEX
Read to the Board was the August 29, 1957 letter
CORP.
from the Westlex Corporation suggesting that the
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Planning Board give consideration to the possible lo -
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cation of Avery and Saul, steel fabricators, in Lex -
DISTRICT
ington's light manufacturing district. Mr. Jaquith
stated that he had conferred with a representative of
the R. M. Bradley Co., real estate brokers, in regard
to the matter and showed the Board brochures he had
obtained illustrating the work of Avery & Saul. Mr.
Jaquith also stated that it was his opinion and that
of the Town Counsel that the work of Avery & Saul was
of a heavy rather than of a light industrial nature
but that the Board might wish to consider a revision
of uses now permitted in the said light manufacturing
district. It was decided that before the Board took
any action on the suggestion for revising the uses
permitted in said district that the Board members
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visit the Avery & Saul plant to observe for themselves
the type and nature of the work of said concern.
HANCOCK
In view of the Special Town Meeting being called
HEIGHTS
for September 16, 1957 it was decided to hold on Sept.
SEC. 2
23, 1957 at 8:00 p.m. the public hearing on the Moore
Realty Trust application for approval of definitive
plan entitled "Hancock Heights Section Two."
SHANNON LAND The Board next discussed the acquisition for
FOR RECREA- playground or recreational purposes the Shannon land
TIONAL PUR- on North Street as set forth in Article 13 of the
POSES warrant for the Special Town Meeting to be held on
September 16, 1957. Mr. Snow was asked to prepare
for the Planning Board's consideration a draft of a
report describing the proposed future use of said
land and recommending favorable action by the Town in
voting upon the article.
REGIONAL Read to the Board and discussed by it was Com
SHOPPING missioner Sheridan's August 27, 1957 letter to the
CENTER Planning Board in answer to its letter of June 4, 1957
PROPOSAL requesting information in regard to construction of an
interchange at Route 2 and Spring Street and access from
private property to the proposed ramp running northerly '
from Route 2 to Route 12$. (See addendum.)
The meeting adjourned at 9:4.5 p.m.
Levi G. Burnell, Jr.
Clerk
ADDENDUM
August 27,1957
Thomas S. Gri ndl e, Chairman
Planning Board,
Lexington, Massachusetts
Dear Mr. Grindle:
' This is in reply to your letter dated June 4, addressed
to Mr. Whitcomb, stating that a Town meeting will be held on
June 24 to take action on the rezoning of certain property on
,which Filene's propose to build a regional shopping center, and
requesting this Department's decisions and policies at two
locations that are to be reconstructed as part of the proposed
Route 2 improvement in Lexington.
1. Spring Street - The Department's plans call for the
construction of a partial clover -leaf at this location to
handle anticipated traffic volumes which will be reached in
1975. It is intended to construct this interchange regardless
of whether or not the land abutting Route 2 at Spring Street is
zoned for commercial purposes.
2. Access to Ramps at Route 128 Interchange - Route 128 is
presently laid out as a limited access expressway. On comple-
tion of the proposed improvements to Route 2, this highway will
also be laid out as a limited access way. The interchange ramps
between these two facilities will necessarily carry high volumes
at relatively high velocities. No access will, therefore, be
allowed to any of the ramps of this interchange for either
private or public roads.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Carl A. Sheridan
Commissioner