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First. We have considered the following names :-
1. Appleton Court. 2. Appleton Street
* 3. Ashland Place.
4. Ashland Street.
* 5. Beacon Place.
6. Beacon Street.
* 7. Circuit Avenue.
8. Circuit Street.
* 9. Crescent Avenue.
*10. Crescent Lodge.
*11. Crescent Place.
12. Eleventh Street.
13. First Street.
14. Florence Avenue (accepted only from Grove St. to Rogers St.)
15. Florence Street.
*16. Glen Avenue.
*17. Glen Road.
*18. Glen Street.
19. Grove Street.
*20. Grove Place.
*21. Haverhill Place.
*22. Larrabee Place.
23. Larrabee Street.
24. Lynde Avenue.
25. Lynde Street. .
*26. Maple Road.
27. Maple Street.
28. Melrose Street.
*29. Melrose Street (westerly from Warren Street).
*30. Mountain Avenue (off 380 Washington Street).
*31. Mountain Avenue (from 65 Lebanon Street).
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*32. Park Avenue (from Main Street to Congress Park).
*33. Park Avenue (opposite 51 Lebanon Street).
*34. Park Avenue (from 63 Elm Street).
35. Park Street.
36. Poplar Street.
37. Prospect Street.
38. Sixth Street.
#39. Thirteenth Street.
*40. Twelfth Street.
41. Waverley Place (now being built and about to be accepted).
42. Waverley Avenue.
Second.
Those numbered as follows are accepted streets, -2, 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 35, 36, 37, 38, 41 and 42.
Third.
Those numbered as follows are not accepted streets, -- 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 39 and 40.
Fourth.
The City has no authority to change the names of un- accepted streets; but it may insist that names designated . by it shall be adopted when streets are accepted.
Fifth.
It is believed that in many cases where the city has no authority to change names such changes may be effected through appeal to the civic spirit of owners having such authority.
Sixth. It is believed advisable that the name "Court" be eliminated, wherever practicable, and the name "Place," or other appropriate name, be substituted therefor.
Seventh.
We recommend that the city make changes in the follow- ing names of accepted streets,-Florence Avenue (there being a non-contiguous Florence Street) ; Lynde Ave. (there being a Lynde Street) ; Maple Street to West Foster Street, of which latter it is a continuation; Waverley Place (there being a non-contiguous Waverley Avenue).
Eighth.
We also recommend that the names of the following ac- cepted streets be changed with a view to eliminating all numbered streets except First Street, namely, Sixth Street and Eleventh Street. When all other number names other than "First Street" have been eliminated, there will be no objection to the continuance of the pres- ent name of "First Street."
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Ninth.
We recommend that the name of Larrabee Street be changed to Whitman Avenue, of which it is a direct but short continuation; and that if it is desired to have a street bearing the name of Larrabee, such name be ap- plied to some other street or avenue, to be designated, for instance, Larrabee Avenue. We would retain the name of Larrabee Place.
Tenth.
We recommend that the name "Poplar Street" be taken from all except that short portion thereof which crosses over from its union with Prospect Street to Maple Street, and that the name of Prospect Street be given to the then remainng portion of Poplar Street, extending from the present Prospect Street to West Emerson Street.
Eleventh.
We believe it desirable that the changes to be made in the following names of unaccepted streets, as soon as practicable, in accordance with our "Fourth," "Fifth" and "Sixth" paragraphs, namely,-Appleton Place, Beacon Place, Crescent Place, Circuit Avenue, Crescent Lodge, Glen Avenue, Glen Road, Waverley Place, Mountin Ave- nue (off 380 Washington Street), Park Avenue (from Main Street to Converse Park) and another Park Ave- nue (from 53 Elm Street). We do not recommend a change in the name of Ashland Place, as this is an un- accepted continuation of Ashland Street, which will later be accepted as a part of it, when a change in numbering on this street will be necessary.
Twelfth.
We have under consideration a plan for renaming those streets and avenues, the names of which we have recom- mended to be changed.
Respectfully submitted,
By the Planning Board, AGNES L. DODGE, Secretary.
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SUGGESTED STREET NAMES
Deceased Former Mayors:
Sidney H. Buttrick
Charles E. French
Oliver B. Monroe Eugene H. Moore
Deceased Citizens:
Charles C. Barry
Mary A. Livermore
Liberty Bigelow
Daniel Norton
William Bogle
Joel C. Page
Calvin N. Chapin
John C. F. Slayton
S. S. Houghton Charles H. Isberg
Phineas Sprague George C. Stantial
Historic Battles:
Eutaw Lexington
Monmouth Saratoga
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE USE, CONSTRUCTION AND LOCATION OF BUILDINGS IN THE CITY OF MELROSE, AND DETERMINING THE DISTRICTS INTO WHICH THE CITY SHALL BE DIVIDED FOR SUCH PURPOSES
BE IT ORDAINED AS FOLLOWS :-
Section. 1. Division of Districts.
In order to promote the health, safety, convenience and welfare of its inhabitants; lessen the danger from fire; restrict buildings which are to be used for certain purposes to specified parts of the city; regu- late the use, construction and alteration of buildings; and otherwise improve the City of Melrose, that city shall be divided into four dis- trics, namely :---
. A. Single residence district, blue.
B. General residence districts, green.
C. Business districts, yellow.
D. General use districts, red.
These districts and the bounds thereof shall be shown on a map of the City of Melrose to be hereafter adopted; shall be designated on such map by the colors blue, green, yellow and red, respectively; and such map, with its designation of such districts and bounds, when adopted shall be thereby made a part hereof.
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Section 2. Single Residence Districts.
1. In single residence districts no new building shall be erected which shall be used or arranged, or which shall be designed to be used, for any purpose other than as a dwelling for one family; nor shall any existing building in such districts to be so altered, enlarged, extended or placed as to be used or ar- ranged, or designed to be used, for any purpose other than as a dwelling for one family. Provided, however, that this sec- tion shall not prohibit the erection, alteration, enlargement, ex- tension or placing of a building now being used, or thereby arranged or designed to be used, (1) as a church, school, library, museum, club (excepting clubs the chief activity of which is customarily carried on as a business), hospital, sani- tarium, day-nursery, philanthropic institution, public or private greenhouse, nursery for trees or shrubs, farm, truck garden, private garage with provision for not more than two automo- biles, private stable with provision for not more than two horses, or (2) for such accessory ,purposes as may be both proper and usual in connection with the foregoing purposes and not injurious to the neighborhood as a place for single family residences. Provided further, that this section shall not pro- hibit the keeping in any such dwelling of not more than three lodgers or not more than three boarders; but the Board of Appeals may upon request and after notice authorize such keeping of more than three boarders or more than three lodgers, or both, upon such conditions and for such time as it may specify.
2. There shall not be erected in any such district any new build- ing which shall be used or arranged, or which shall be designed to be used, for human habitation, the cost of which building, above its foundation and exclusive of the lot upon which it is situated, shall, up to the time of its occupation for such habitation, have been less than twenty-five hundred dollars. In computing such cost, work done on such building by its then or prior owner may be included at a value to be fixed by the Inspector of Buildings.
Section 3. General Residence Districts.
1. In general residence districts no new buildings shall be erected which shall be used or arranged, or which shall be designed to be used, for any purpose other than as a dwelling for not more than two families; nor shall any existing building in such dis- tricts be so altered, enlarged, extended or placed as to be used or arranged, or designed to be used, for any purpose other than
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as a dwelling for not more than two families. Provided, how- ever, that this section shall not prohibit the erection, altera- tion, enlargement, extension or placing of a building now being used, or thereby designed to be used, (1) as a church. school, library, museum, club (excepting clubs the chief activity of which is customarily carried on as a business), hospital, sani- tarium, day-nursery, philanthropic institution, publie or private greenhouse, nursery for trees or shrubs, farm, truck garden, private garage with provision for not more than three au- tomobiles, private stable with provision for not more than two horses, or (2) for such accessory purposes as may be both proper and usual in connection with the foregoing purposes and not injurious to the neighborhood as a place for family residences. Provided further, that this section shall not, in any single-family house or in any single-family portion of a two-family house, prohibit the keeping of not more than three lodgers or not more than three boarders; but the Board of Appeals may upon request and after notice authorize such keeping of more than three boarders or more than three lodgers. or both, upon such conditions and for such time as it may specify.
2. There shall not be erected in any such district any new build- ing which shall be used or arranged, or which shall be de- signed to be used, for human habitation, the cost of which building, above its foundation and exclusive of the lot upon which it is situated, shall, up to the time of its occupation for such habitation, have been less than twenty-five hundred dollars. In computing such cost, work done on such building by its then or prior owner may be included at a value to be fixed by the Inspector of Buildings.
Section 4. Business Districts.
In business districts no new building shall be erected which shall be used or arranged, or which shall be designed to be used, nor shall any existing building therein be so altered, enlarged, extended or placed as to be used or arranged, or designed to be used, for any purpose other than one or more of the following :-
1. Store, salesroom or showroom, for the conduct of a whole- sale or retail business; but this shall not permit the manu- facture in such building of the product dealt in unless such manufacture be permitted by the further provisions of this section.
2. Bank, office, telephone exchange or post office.
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3. Hall, club, theatre, dance hall, dancing school, gymnasium, or other place of amusement or assembly.
4. Place of business or mamifacture of a baker, caterer, confec- tioner, barber, hair-dresser, manicurist, chiropodist, milliner, retail dressmaker, retail tailor, retail optician, shoe repairer, retail shoemaker, photographer, undertaker, upholsterer, elec- trician, plumber, printer, publisher, painter, decorator, carpen- ter, roofer, mason, paper-langer, cleaner, retail dyer, hand laundry, shoe-shiner, express office, or milk bottling or dis- tributing station.
5. Hotel, restaurant, public dining-room or lunch room.
6. Apartment house, lodging house or boarding house.
7. Any uses and accessory purposes permitted in single or general residence districts.
S. Coal yard, lumber yard, storage warehouse.
9. Blacksmith shop or horse-shoeing establishment.
10. Gasoline filling station, sale of automobile supplies and ac- cessories.
11. Private garage for the keeping or storage of any number of automobiles.
12. Private commercial garage for the keeping or storage of any number of commercial vehicles.
13. Public garage for the keeping or storage of automobiles or commercial vehicles, but not for the repair of the same.
14. Public garage in which the repair of motor vehicles is car- ried on; provided there is already at least one such garage located on the same side of the street between the two near- est intersecting streets and not more than two hundred feet distaut from the nearest point of the foundation wall of such proposed public garage; and provided further, that the loca- tion of such proposed garage be first approved by the Inspec- tor of Buildings.
This section shall not be construed to authorize within sueli dis- tricts, but it shall prohibit therein, the storage or sale of explosives (other than in connection with the duly licensed retail sale of fire- works), and any trade, industry or use which may be or become ob- noxious or offensive by reason of smoke, dust, odor, gas, noise, or similar objectionable features, or especially dangerous to a neighbor- hood on account of fire; except that places of amusement shall not be hereby excluded therefrom by reason of noise.
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Section 5. General Use Districts.
1. In general use districts any building may be erected, altered, enlarged, extended, placed, reconstructed or used in such man- ner as may at that time be permitted by the law, by clause 2 of this present Section 5, and by other existing ordinances and regulations; provided that no new building shall be erected which shall be used or arranged or designed to be used, nor shall any existing building be so altered, enlarged, extended or placed as to be used or arranged or designed to be used, for any purpose which may be or become obnoxious or offensive to its neighborhood by reason of smoke, dust, odor, gas, noise, or similar objectionable features, or especially dangerous to its neighborhood on account of fires, or for any of the following purposes :-
1. Acetylene gas manufacturing.
2. Ammonia, bleaching powder, or chlorine manufacturing.
3. Asphalt manufacturing or refining.
4. Assaying, other than gold or silver.
ɔ̄. Blast furnace.
6. Boiler making.
7. Brass, copper, iron, or steel manufacturing.
8. Brick, terra cotta, or tile manufacturing.
9. Candle manufacturing ..
10. Celluloid manufacturing, treatment or storage.
11. Cement, lime, or plaster of Paris manufacturing.
12. Coke manufacturing.
13. Cremation, except in a cemetery.
14. Creosote treatment or manufacturing.
15. Dextrine, glucose, or starch manufacturing.
16. Disinfectant, insecticide, or poison manufacturing.
17. Distillation of bones, coal, or wood.
18. Dye stuff manufacturing.
19. Emery cloth or sandpaper manufacturing.
20. Enamel, japan, lacquer, oil, paint, shellac, turpentine, or varnish manufacturing.
21. Explosives, fireworks, or gunpowder manufacturing.
22. Fat rendering.
23. Fertilizer manufacturing.
24. Fish packing or storage.
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25. Gasoline, naphtha, or petroleum refining.
26. Gelatine, glue, or sizing manufacturing.
27. Grease, lard, or tallow manufacturing or refining.
28. Hydrochloric, nitric, picrie, sulphuric or sulphurous acid manufacturing.
29. Incineration or reduction of dead animals, garbage, offal, or refuse, except in a municipal plant.
30. Lamp black manufacturing.
31. Linoleum or oil cloth manufacturing.
32. Match manufacturing.
33. Ore reduction.
34. Pickle, sauerkraut, sausage, or vinegar manufacturing.
35. Potash refining.
36. Printing ink manufacturing.
37. Pyroxylin manufacturing.
38. Rolling mill.
39. Salt manufacturing.
40. Shoe blacking, cleaning, or polish manufacturing.
41. Slaughtering of animals or fowls.
42. Smelting of ores.
43 Soap manufacturing.
44. Soda and soda compounds manufacturing.
45. Stockyards.
46. Stove blacking or polish manufacturing.
47. Sugar refining.
48. Tanning, curing or storage of leather, raw hides or skins.
49. Tar distillation or manufacturing.
50. Tar roofing or tar waterproofing manufacturing.
51. Tobacco (chewing) manufacturing.
52. Yeast manufacturing.
2. There shall not be erected in any such district any new building which shall be used or arranged, or which shall be designed to be used, for human habitation, the cost of which building, above its foundation and exclusive of the lot upon which it is situated, shall, up to the time of its occupation for such habitation, have been less than twenty-five hundred dollars. In computing such cost, work done on such building by its then or prior owner may be included at a value to be fixed by the Inspector of Buildings.
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Section 7. Height Restrictions in Business and General Use Districts.
In business districts and in general use districts no building ex- cept a church shall be constructed, altered, enlarged, extended, placed, reconstructed or raised so as to contain more than four stories, or to exceed in any part a height of sixty feet, without the approval of the Board of Appeals after notice; but this section shall not be con- strued to prohibit towers, domes, cupolas, pent-houses, accessories, and ornamental features of non-residential buildings from being erected to a greater height in feet provided the same be approved by the Board of Appeals; or chimneys, ventilators and flagpoles from being erected to a greater height in feet, provided the same be ap- proved by the Inspector of Buildings.
Section 8. . Area and Frontage of Residences in Residence Districts.
In single residence districts and in general residence districts, no building or buildings on any one lot, including accessory buildings, cornices, piazzas, balconies and similar constructions, steps excepted, shall be so constructed, altered, enlarged, extended, placed or re- constructed as to occupy more than forty per cent of the area of such lot or to be nearer than seven and one-half feet to any street or to the line of any adjoining lot or to be nearer than twenty feet to the wall of any other building. Accessory buildings may be located as near the side and rear lines of such lots as may be permitted by the building ordinances, provided in the case of an interior lot all parts thereof be kept back at least fifty feet from the front street line of such lot, and provided in the case of a corner lot all parts thereof be kept back at least fifty feet from the shorter street line of such lot and as far back from the longer street line of such lot as the depth of such lot from such longer street line will permit con- sistently with the provisions of this section and with the building ordinances. But the Board of Appeals may upon request and after notice exempt any such accessory building from the restrictions of one or both of these two provisions upon such conditions and for such time as it may specify. These measurements shall be taken at the mean ground level, and no measurements of lot area shall include any part of a street or alley.
Section 9. Set-Back Restrictions in Residence Districts.
1. Except as permitted by clause 2 of this Section, in single residence districts the set-back line shall be twenty-five feet, and in general residence districts the set-back line shall be fifteen feet.
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2. In single residence districts and in general residence districts, where at least one-half of the buildings on any one side of the street between the two nearest intersecting streets and not more than two hundred and fifty feet from the building which it is proposed to erect are set back to at least a certain minimum distance, the set-back line of any new building erected, or of any existing building altered, placed or re- constructed shall be the line of such minimum distance.
3. For the purposes of this section the distance to a street shall be from the nearest point of the foundation wall of the building.
Section 10. Residence Area Restrictions in Business and General Use Districts.
In business districts and in general use districts, no building used, or designed to be used, for residence purposes and no story used, or designed to be used for residence purposes, shall be so constructed, altered, enlarged, extended, placed or re-constructed that the total area of any floor or floors used for residence purposes on the same general level in all the building on that lot taken together shall exceed sixty per cent of the area of an interior lot or eighty per cent of the area of a corner lot.
Section 11. Ventilation Restrictions.
No new building shall be so constructed, and no existing building shall be so altered, enlarged, extended, placed or re-constructed, in any district, that any room therein used, or designed to be used, for resi- dence or sleeping purposes shall be without at least one window open- ing directly on the outside air, with an unoccupied space opposite and outside the full width of such window of not less than ten feet, measured horizontally outward at right angles to such window, and at every point opening vertically from the ground to the sky un- obstructed. The total window area in each such room shall be at least one-seventh of the superficial area of such room; the top of at least one window shall be not more than eighteen inches below the ceiling and the upper half of it shall be made so as to open its full width; and at least one such window shall be not less than twelve square feet in area between the stop-beads.
Section 12. Effect of Changes in Shape or Size of Lots.
Whenever in any district a lot, upon which there stands a build- ing, is changed in size or shape so that such building no longer com- plies with such of the provisions of sections 8, 9, 10 and 11 of this ordinance as are applicable thereto, such building and its accessories,
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respectively, shall not thereafter be used until the same are severally 60 altered, re-constructed or re-located as to comply with those pro- visions of said sections which are applicable thereto. But this section shall not apply to a lot upon the taking of a portion thereof by right of eminent domain so long as no building is erected or placed on that portion of the lot so taken.
Section 13. Determination of District Boundaries.
A. General Rule. In general the exact location of boundary lines shown on the map which is to be made a part of this ordinance shall be determined as follows :-
1. Where the boundary lines are shown on such map to be on or within the street lines of public or private streets or ways, the center lines of such streets or ways shall be taken as the boundary lines.
2. Where the boundary lines are shown as approximately on the location of property or lot lines, and the exact position of such boundary lines is not indicated by means of figures, distances or otherwise, such property or lot lines shall be taken as the boundary lines.
3. Boundary lines located at specified distances from street lines are to be taken generally as parallel to such street lines; all figures placed on such map between boundary lines and street lines are the distances in feet of such boundary lines from such street lines; and all such distances are to be measured at right angles to such street lines unless otherwise indicated.
4. In all cases which are not otherwise covered by the provisions of this section, the location of boundary lines shall be deter- mined by the distance in feet, if given, from other lines on such map, or, if not given, by the scale of such map.
B. Special Cases.
5. Where a district boundary line divides a lot which at the time of the passage of this ordinance is of single ownership, the regulations for the less restricted portion of such lot shall extend to the entire lot; provided, however, that the line of the thus less restricted portion shall not extend more than twenty-five feet beyond the boundary line of the more re- stricted district as shown by such map.
6. Whenever a street, other than a boulevard or parkway not under jurisdiction of this City, is so widened as to be within one hundred feet of the boundary line of a more restricted
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district, the less restricted district shall thereupon extend one hundred feet back from the so widened street, and such change in the district boundary lines shall have the same force and effect as though separately ordained.
C. Settlement of Uncertainties.
7. Whenever any uncertainty exists as to the exact location of any boundary line, the location of such boundary line shall be determined by the Inspector of Buildings subject to an appeal to the Board of Appeals by any person aggrieved by his decision.
Section 14.
1. Enforcement.
This ordinance shall be enforced by the Inspector of Build- ings; and he shall issue no permit for the construction, altera- tion, reconstruction or placing of any buildings or structures, or of any part thereof, plans, specifications and intended use for which are not in all respects in conformity with the pro- visions of this ordinance. If the designed or intended use, owing to their nature or to the vagueness of their statement, fall within those designs or uses which are restricted in more than one of the four districts established by Section 1 of this ordinance, such building or structure shall not be per- mitted to be within any part of any district in which such design or use is prohibited.
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