HomeMy WebLinkAbout1981-03-04 HISTORIC DISTRICTS COMMISSION
A meeting of the Historic Districts Commission was held at 8s00 P.M.
on Wednesday, March 4, 2981, in the Selectmen's Meeting Room, Town Office
Building, Lexington. Present were Commissioners John R. Packard, Chairman,
John L. Davies, Ann Wallace, and S. Lawrence Whipple; and Associate Com-
missioner Linda J. McAuley.
At 8s00 P.M. representatives of the L'il Peach Convenience Food Store,
supported by Mr. Patterson of Bel Canto Restaurant, presented plans for the
store at 1719 Massachusetts Avenuee a nex door and sign for the front, and
the same for the rear, including planters, all to be coordinated xith
changes for Bel Canto, too. The Commission xas pleased to note that two
businesses were working together for the improvement of their premises and
on the whole were happy xith the plans presented. They asked that the
length of the rear awning and sign be reduced so that both would be centered
only over the entrance, and they rejected a request for permission to paint
the bricks on the rear facade. With these modifications it xas VOTED to
approve the plans.
At 9e10 P.M. the Barrett & Worthen stamp and coin store submitted
drawings for a sign of the same name for their store at 1845 Massachusetts
Avenue, the Giroux Building. This sign will be like all others on the
Giroux Building, and it was accordingly VOTED to approve the same.
At 9s15 P.M. the Couette real estate sign, presented informally at an
earlier hearing, was viexed formally. It rill project from the front porch
at 5 Raymond Street and has already been approved by the Board of Appeals.
The Commission, too, VOTEDto approve it.
Eric Carlson then advised the Commission that a professional sign is
being prepared for his coin store at 854 Massachusetts Avenue, his appearance
being in response to a request to do something about the non-professional
sign erected xithout Commission approval. A formal hearing will be held
soon.
It was then VOTED to approve bills of $93.00 for publishing and cleri- iil
cal expenditures, and the meeting was adjourned shortly before i0s00 P.M.
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John R. Packard
Chairman