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Home My WebLink About1959-10-191 1 C PLANNING BOARD MEETING October 19s 1959 A regular meeting of the Lexington Planning Board was held in the Board's offices Town Office Buildings on Monday, October 191 19591 at 7:40 p.m. Present were Chairman Abbott, Members Burnell, Grindley Mabee and Soules and Planning Director Snow. Town Counsel Stevens was also present from 8:15 to 9:10 P.M. The Board approved the minutes of its Septem- ber 28 and October 5, 1959 meetings. MINUTES Approved also by the Board were the follow- ing bills which were presented for payment: Louise BILLS M.Baker, secretarial service for Oct. 13s 1959 meeting -45.00; Spaulding -Moss Co.s roll tracing paper -47.60. Considered next were the following Form A applications for determination of Planning Board jurisdiction: #50-65, submitted Oct. 16, 1959 by Irene M. Boudreau; plan entitled `Plan of Land in Lex- ington, Mass. Owned by: Irene M. Boudreaut's Scale: l" _ 4011 dated Sept. 81 19591 Joseph W. Moores Inc., Reg. Land Surveyors. #59-66 (See October 131 195° Planning Board minutes.) #59-67s submitted October 19s 1959 by Reginald A. Wood; plan entitled "Ld.Ct.Plan of Land in Lexington, Mass."y dated Sept.251 1959, Scale: 1" _ 40'1 Joseph W. MooresInc., .Reg. Land Surveyors, Bedford, Mass. (Same plan as that accompanying application #59-63 but drawn at a larger scale.) #59-69, submitted Oct. 161 1959 by Mrs. Joseph Fitzgerald; plan entitled A subdivi- sion of LCC No. 6807 Land in LexingtonsMass."s Scale: 1" = 40', dated Oct. 1s 1959s Miller & Nylan der, C.E.'s & Surveyors. It was decided to take no action on plans accompanying applications #59-65 and #59-69 pending corrections of said plans or submission of additional data. FORMS A 10-19-59 .2 - Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was I unanimously VOTED: that the Lexington Planning Board determines that the plans accompanying applications #59-66 and #59-67 do not require approval under the Subdivision Control Law, and that said plans be so endorsed. The Board's attention was called to the MINUTE MAN October 15, 1959 letter from Mr. Hanron, District, HIGHLANDS Highway Engineer, to Mr. Carrig relative to the SEC. 4 latter's application for access to his property known as Section Four of the Minute Man Highlands develop- CARRIG ment. In said letter Mr. Carrig was informed that the Board of Commissioners of the State Department of Public Works had voted on September 4, 1959 "that the necessary steps be taken to acquire land on the James A. Carrig property in connection with proposed Rte. 2 in the Town of Lexington." Read and discussed by the Board was Mr. Stevens' BOARD OF October 16, 1959 letter notifying said Board that on APPEALS said date he had filed in the Middlesex Superior Court an appeal from the Board of Appeals decision in regard McCORMACK to the McCormack petition. (See October 13, 1959 I Planning Board minutes.) The Board's attention was likewise called to LOT STUDY Mr. Perry L. Norton's 'IS ;ecial Report on Subdivision Practices and Lot Shapes which he had prepared for NORTON the Planning Board's consideration. (See September 144 1959 Planning Board minutes.) It was decided to have the report reproduced so that the Town Counsel and each member of the Board might have a copy. Mr. Snow was asked to arrange to have Mr. Norton meet with the Board to discuss said report and the next steps to be taken in preparing a zoning by-law amend- ment. At 8:15 p.m. Mr. Stevens came to the meeting WINCHESTER to discuss with the Board the proposed revision of ESTATES the Winchester Estates Section 4 subdivision plan SEC. 4 (see October 13, 1959 Planning Board minutes). After due consideration it was decided that Mr. Stevens WINCHESTER would discuss the plan further with Mr. DeVries and DEVELOPMENT inform him that the Board would sign said plan bear - CORP. ing the endorsement "Lexington Planning Board approval under the Subdivision Control Law not re- quired" on the basis that either the Winchester Development Corporation construct that portion of Thornberry Road located in Lexington and install the 10-19-59 utilities therein as originally approved by the Winchester Planning Board or that all the Lexington land within said subdivision be combined into one lot. After a general discussion of other current problems before the Board Mr.Stevens left the meet- ing at 9:10 p.m. At that time Messrs. A. Morris Kobrick and H.S.B.',dhite, representing the Waymint Realty Trust, came to the meeting. As had been requested by the Board at its meeting on September 28, 1959. Mr. Snow reviewed a sketch he had prepared of the Waymint Realty Trust land the Board was recommending the Town acquire for public recreational purposes. Using said sketch he pointed out how he believed various sections of the Waymint land could be developed, on this basis how much appraisers considered each section was worths and what the Board considered to be the total value of the land to be acquired. Values ranged from $200 to $1000 per acre for various sections not includ- ing lot 6B,the total value being $9680. Messrs. Kobrick and Itihite considered the values low but agreed to consider the matter further and inform the Board of the Trust's opinion of said values at the Board's next meeting. Mr. Snow then reviewed the Lucky Penny and Meryl Robert Trusts proposal to subdivide said Trust's land between Grove Street and Rangeway. He pointed out what the Board considered to be the portions of said plan which needed revision. He pointed out ways in which the plan could be im- proved by relating it to adjacent properties and agreed to prepare several alternate schemes of de- velopment for consideration by representatives of said Trusts. Messrs. Kobrick and White left the meeting at 9:45 p•m• After a further discussion of current prob- lems before the Board, it adjourned its meeting at 10:30 p.m. chard H. Soule, Clerk 1 -3- WAYMINT REALTY TRUST LAND FOR RE- CREATIONAL PURPOSES