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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1958-03-031 1 1 PLANNING BOARD MEETING March 3, 1958 A regular meeting of the Lexington Plan- ning Board was held in the Town Engineer's Room, Town Office Building, on Monday, March 3, 1958 at 7:30 P.M. Present were Chairman Grindle, Members Abbott, Burnell, Jaquith, and Soule, and Planning Director now. Town Counsel Stevens was present from 8:L�5 to 9:20 p.m. Approved b7 the Board were the minutes of MINUTES June 11 and 18, 1956, and January 27, 1958. Approved also were the following bills BILLS which had been presented for payment: Spaulding - Moss Co., office supplies, $5.95 and $0.50-- �6.45; L.E.Muran Co., duplicator paper --$10.00. The Board's attention was called to the application of Frank DeFelice for approval of a definitive subdivision plan to lay out a portion of Ann Street, said a plication having been sub- mitted on March 3,195. It was decided to hold a public hearing relative to said application on March 26, 1958 at 8:00 p.m. Reviewed by the Board in a general way were 22 bills concerned with planning, zoning, and related matters under consideration by the General Court. Discussed were the purposes and comments on each bill as set forth by the Mass. Federation of Planning Boards and the Division of Planning of the Mass. Department of Commerce. The Board authorized Mr. Snow, as it had the pre- vious year, to write a letter to Mr. Naloney, a representative from the 19th Middlesex District and a member of the Legislative Committee on Mercantile Affairs, setting forth comments and recommendations in regard. to said bills. Mr. Jaquith was asked to assist Mr. Snow in the study of the proposed legislation and the preparation of noted ,o include in said letter. Mr. Stevens came to the meeting at 8:45 p.m. to discuss with the Board who would be served with a summons to take to court the fol- lowing day records of the Planning Board in re- gard to the public hearing on the Sun Valley Section One subdivision plan, it being under- stood that two Lowell Street residents were DE FELICE ANN STREET PROPOSED LEGISLATION SUN VALLEY SEC. 1 suing the DeVries Construction Co., Inc. for damages in connection with storm drainage. It was decided that the Chairman would be served with said summons. PROPOSED Discussed also with Mr. Stevens was a plan SUN VALLEY entitled "Plan of Land in Lexington Mass.", dated RECREATION Sept. 19571 Robert G. Venne, Eng., said plan show - LAND ing the land the DeVries Construction Co.,Inc. proposed to give to the Town of Lexington, said land being located southeasterly of the Sun Valley development. Mr. Snow pointed out that the plan as drawn did not conform to the definitive sub- division plan of Section Fifteen of Sun Valley pre- viously approved by the Board, the Venne plan in- dicating that the Town was not to obtain land in one continuous parcel the highest point of land in the area, said point being called Mt. Orr. Mr. Snow also read to the Board its minutes of the. July 16 and August 131 1956 in regard to the acqui- sition of the land in question and showed to the Board some of the studies which had been made in connection with the approval of the Section Fifteen Sun Valley preliminary plan which reserved the top of Mt. Orr for use as an observation point. The Board instructed Mr. Snow to confer with Mr. DeVries in regard to the Venne plan to see if the Town could acquire all the land the Board understood it was to obtain from the 1956 studies. PROPOSED Mr. Stevens left the meeting at 9:20 p.m. WOOD TO At the same time the Board, at the Selectmen's re - BEDFORD quest, met with them to discuss the proposed Wood - STREET to -Bedford Street road to be constructed w.th ROAD Federal funds. After discussing the various aspects of the road's location, connect;ons, points of access, maintenance, etc., it was decided that Mr. Gayer would write a letter to the District Office of the State Dept. of Public 'Works mention- ing various questions asked during said discussion and requesting that the Selectmen and Planning Board have a meeting with a representative of said office for the purpose of discussing various points of interest. At 10:00 p.m the Board left the Selectmen's meeting and with the exception of Messrs. Abbott and Soule returned to its meeting in the Town En- gi.neer's Room. After discussing various matters before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 10:30. eL 'vi G. LBurnell, Jr. Clerk 7 L 1 1