HomeMy WebLinkAbout1959-01-22 PLANNING BOARD MINUTES
January 22, 1959
A special meeting of the Lexington Planning
Board was held in the Planning Board office, Town
Office Building on Thursday, January 22, 1959 at
8:00 p.m. Present were Chairman Grindle, Members
Burnell and Jaquith, and Planning Director Snow.
Considered first were the notices of peti-
tions to be heard by the Board of Appeals on Jan- BOARD OF
uary 27, 1959. It was decided to take no action in APPEALS
regard to said petitions .
Considered next was a letter from the East
Lexington Men' s Club requesting that a member of EAST LExING-
the Planning Board give a short talk on the work of TON MEN'S
the Board at the Club 's Annual Civic Night, Febru- CLUB
ary 23, 1959. It was decided to ask Mr . Soule to
give a talk and represent the Board on that evening.
Taken under consideration next was the Todd
Realty, Inc . application for approval of the Burn- BURNHAM
ham Farms, Sec . 3 subdivision plan. All matters FARMS
appearing to be in order, upon motion duly made SEC. 3
and seconded, it was unanimously
TODD REALTY
VOTED : that the definitive subdivision plan INC .
entitled "Burnham Farms Section Three
Lexington-Mass.", dated Nov. 5, 1958,
which was submitted to the Board by Todd
Realty, Inc . on December 8, 1958, accom-
panied by an application for approval of
definitive plan, Form C, dated Nov. 29,
1958, be and hereby is approved.
The Board approved the minutes of its Jan- MINUTES
uary 12, 1959 meeting.
Taken under consideration also were the
following Form A applications for determination FORMS A
of planning Board jurisdiction:
#59-6, submitted January 19, 1959 by Todd
Realty, Inc . , Mark Moore Jr., President;
plan entitled "Plan of Lots in Lexington,
Mass.", Scale: 1" = 40' , dated Jan. 14,
1959, Miller & Nylander, C .E. ' s & Surveyors .
#59-7, submitted Jan a ry 19, 1959 by R. L.
Higgins for Town of Lexington; plan en-
titled "Plan of Sewer Easement Off Freemont
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Street to Trunk Sewer Lexington, Mass ,"
Scale : 1" = 10 ' , dated Dec. 2, 1958, Richard
L. Gayer, Town Engineer
#59-8, submitted January 22, 1959 by Frank
M. Hodgdon; plan entitled "A Compiled Plan
of Land in Lexington-Mass .", Scale: 1" =
60 ' , dated Apr. 21, 1958, Miller & Nylander,
C.E. ' s & Surveyors .
Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was
unanimously
VOTED: that the Lexington Planning Board determines
that the plans accompanying Form A applica-
tions #59-6, #59-7 and #59-8 do not require
approval under the Subdivision Control Law,
and that said plans be so endorsed.
Mr. Jaquith reported that Mr. Stevens had
LOWELL discussed with him and had ruled that the Planning
ESTATES Board would have to readvertise and hold a new
public hearing on the application of the Lexington
LEXINGTON Development Company for approval of the "Lowell
DEVELOPMENT Estates" subdivision because of the error in the
COMPANY notice of the previous hearing jeld on January 19,
1959. It was decided, therefore, to hold another
hearing on Friday, February 13, 1959 at 8:00 p.m.
advertising said hearing in the January 29, 1959
issue of the Lexington Minute-man.
The Board 's attention was called to Chapter
CHAP. 584 584, Acts of 1958, approved September 26, 1958 and
ACTS of 1958 effective ninety days thereafter, s aid act being
relative to regulating the practice of professional
PROFESSIONAL engineering and of land surveying. Specific
REGISTRATION attention was called to Sec.81M of said act re-
quiring that plans, specifications, plats and re-
ports prepared by registrants shall be stamped with
the registrants ' seals when filed with public
authorities.
Consideration was given to a draft of a pro-
PROPOSED LOT posal to amend the Town 's zoning by-law relative
REGULATIONS to the width and shape of house lots . (See Plan-
ning Board minutes of January 12, 1959. ) After a
discussion of the problems involved, it was decided
to give the matter further study.
Mr. Snow reported that earlier that day he
had driven to Billerica and Burlington for the pur-
pose of negotiating with Mr. Bob Innis for a parcel
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of land for recreation and other public purposes, said
parcel being located at the end of Roosevelt Road. BOB INNIS
(See Planning Board minutes of January 12, 1959. ) Mr. LAND FOR
Snow stated that he had not been able to negotiate RECREATION
with Mr. Innis for said parcel because the latter AND OTHER
would not sell the parcel without the Planning Board PURPOSES
agreeing to recommend the rezoning of other land
owned by Mr. Innis and also because the price he wanted
for the parcel was unreasonably high . After discus-
sing Mr. Snow 's report, the Board decided to take no
further action in regard to obtaining an option to
acquire said parcel.
Discussed next was the possibility of the
Board obtaining someone to help Mr. Snow tempo- TEMPORARY
racily with the backlog of drafting work. Mr. Snow HELP
was authorized to employ a draftsman at the rate of
$2.50 per hour .
The Board then considered the request of the
Vine Brook Realty Trust to move the proposed lova- WALTHAM ST .
tion of Worthen Road through the Waltham St. garden A 1 DISTRICT
apartment district. (See minutes of January 19, 1959 SITE PLAN
Planning Board meeting . ) The Board also studied in -
detail the Trust ' s plan entitled "Preliminary Site VINE BROOK
Plan Garden Apartment Development Lexington Massachu- REALTY
setts," and dated Oct. 9, 1958. Mr.Snow stated that TRUST
it was his opinion that without moving the Worthen
Road location as shown on his recommended plan,
dated November 28, 1958, satisfactory site plans could
be prepared including all the apartment units shown on
the Trust 's Oct . 9, 1958 proposal. Before making any
decision in regard to either the garden apartment site
plan or the possible relocation of Worthen Road, the
Board requested Mr. Snow to prepare a site plan study
for the Board's consideration at its next meeting.
The meeting adjourned at 10:15 p.m.
Thomas S. Grindle,
Chairman