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154 50
Photographs
9 30
Damages
58 13
Retaining wall
89 90
Waste cans
18 00
Sea wall
10 00
Blacksmith shop
68 65
Transportation, Milton Road
114 53
Office
28 80
Clerical (pensions)
23 07
Sundries
42 50
$35,583 71
Street Lighting
Electric
. $48,904 72
Gas
1,208 72
Subway
10 25
Ice pond
62 50
Grade crossing
10 00
Police reports
8 50
$50,204 69
In Use December 31, 1922
Added
In Use December 31, 1923
Cost per Year
Gas lights .
50
-
$23 00
Incandescents
1,635
38
1,673
16 50
Novalux units
259
32
291
75 00
Cluster Shedd Memorial
1
-
1
16 80
Public landing
1
1
16 80
Flood lights
3
-
3
75 00
Spot lights .
6
1
7
60 00
Clock lights
2
-
2
36 00
Mazda lights
2
2
24 00
252
CITY OF QUINCY
Street Sprinkling
Labor .
$12,580 29 ·
Teams
2,758 65
Tar
12,231 77
Oil
6,580 30
Gravel
2,857 37
Distributor
773 65
Signs .
33 SO
Transportation .
12 00
Equipment for men
23 50
Clerical
13 50
Printing
9 00
All others
4 70
$37,878 53
Rebuilding Budget
Labor .
$6,487 80
Teams
203 63
Stone
2,813 44
Asphalt
4,752 49
Equipment
235 05
Filling
427 60
All others
5 50
$14,925 51
Brook Street
$104 00
Baxter Avenue
45 00
Coddington Street
5,186 67
Canal Street
84 40
Fort Hill
55 18
Hancock Street
1,924 18
Palmer Street
89 81
Quincy Avenue .
2,859 46
Revere Road
3,172 84
Standish Avenue
1,074 85
Upland Road
39 90
254 12
Washington Street All others
35 10
$14,925 51
Summary
Coddington Street
$5,186 67
Fore River Bridge
254 12
Fort Hill
55 18
Hancock Street
1,924 18
Quincy Avenue .
2,859 46
Revere Road
3,172 84
Brook Street
104 00
253
REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS
Standish Avenue
$1,074 75
Palmer Street
89 81
Canal Street
84 40
All others
120 10
$14,925 51
New Streets
Labor
$36 00
Stone
.
139 23
Gravel
.
88 00
Asphalt
59 31
Removal of trees
193 80
$516 34
Surface Drains, 1922
Labor
$2,007 99
Cement
91 90
Pipe
1,698 60
Brick .
132 89
Teams
23 73
Sundries
1 48
$3,956 59
Surface Drains, 1923
Labor
$6,120 99
Tidegate
2,199 30
Brick
24 90
Pipe
2,901 50
Cement
358 34
Teams
330 78
Catch basins
636 67
Lanterns
10 38
Tools
38 27
Engineering
296 00
Registry of deeds
2 08
Filling
332 50
Easements
210 00
Storage
32 50
Sundries
3 52
13,497 73
$17,454 32
Summary, Surface Drains, 1922, 1923
Adams Street
$424 75
Berlin Street
671 42
Bellevue Road
1,943 29
Broadway
134 64
Bradford Street
190 81
Copeland Street
219 25
Coddington Street
43 29
254
CITY OF QUINCY
Cummings Avenue
$300 48
Faxon Field
1,294 38
Federal Avenue
234 91
Farrington Street
24 50
Granite Street
2,778 84
Gay Street
172 19
Glendale Road .
16 52
Kemper Street
566 70
Merrymount Road
954 64
Marlboro Street
186 17
Presidents Lane
139 50
Revere Road
178 19
Sea Street and Centre Road
279 66
Saville Avenue
344 95
Safford Street
18 35
Tide gate
3,084 35
Trescott Street .
133 08
Upland Road
640 42
Wayland Street
641 54
Willard Street
78 67
Willett Street
463 85
Woodbine Street
178 00
Catch basins
636 67
Engineering
246 00
Miscellaneous drains
150 16
Storage
32 50
Supplies
51 65
$17,454 32
Independence Avenue Drain -Special
Labor
$3,018 05
Teams
83 26
Pipe
1,426 81
Gravel
55 00
Cement
75 38
Lumber
16 68
Engineering
44 00
Lime
4 00
Equipment
14 85
Tools .
71 97
Catch basins
190 00
$5,000 00
Permanent Sidewalks, 1922
Labor
$358 38
Material
42 00
Contract
1,209 82
Claim
600 00
Advertising
6 00
$2,216 20
255
REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS
Permanent Sidewalks, 1923
Construction
$2,908 19
Curbing
1,234 27
Repairs
640 64
Engineering
130 00
Advertising
5 50
$4,918 60
Main Street Curbing
Labor
$40 10
Contract
108 00
.
$148 10
Hancock Street Rebuilding, Barry's Corner, North
Labor
$3,478 06
Teams
449 88
Material
2,879 83
Equipment
523 88
Lanterns
69 50
Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway
380 68
$7,781 83
Hancock Street-Atlantic Street, North
Labor
$424 40
Teams
79 50
Material
1,092 63
Tools .
41 00
Equipment
24 48
$1,662 01
Milton Road
Labor .
$353 00
Teams
41 63
Material
178 92
$573 55
Harrington Avenue
Labor
$1,906 19
Teams
202 51
Stone .
523 00
Equipment
55 00
Asphalt
624 68
Filling
363 50
Lanterns
36 00
Engineering
70 00
$3,780 88
256
CITY OF QUINCY
Baxter Avenue
Labor
$603 13
Teams
39 38
Stone
69 30
Gravel
235 00
Asphalt
53 19
$1,000 00
Franklin Street Widening
Labor
$3,551 06
Material
1,727 80
Claims
626 73
Teams
52 88
Equipment
485 32
Lighting
69 75
Fence .
142 44
Overhead changes
808 58
Relocating poles
52 70
Granolithic walk
1,761 26
Grading
27 50
Pipe
14 07
Legal services
37 26
$9,357 35
Gypsy Moth
Labor
$3,615 00
Superintendent .
1,872 00
Trees .
2,972 57
Material
1,815 43
Sprayer
122 59
Telephone .
21 39
Insurance
266 30
Equipment and tools
295 97
Truck .
275 75
Teams
532 14
Printing
27 00
Conventions
18 04
Sundries
14 03
$11,848 21
WATER DEPARTMENT Water Rates
Total assessment for the year 1923
.
$236,195 86
Amount collected
$213,390 95
Amount rebated
1,389 70
Amount uncollected
21,415 21
$236,195 86
257
REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS
Amount due from previous years
$14,318 71
Amount collected
$6,213 92
Amount rebated
1,749 26
Amount uncollected
6,355 53
$14,318 71
Service connections:
Total assessment for the year 1923
$23,382 57
Due from previous years
3,900 75
$27,283 32
Amount collected
$18,728 12
Amount rebated
226 57
Amount uncollected
8,328 63
$27,283 32
Total receipts for the year from water rates, 1923
$219,604 87
Municipal departments .
23,152 13
$242,757 00
For statement of appropriation accounts, see report of Auditor.
Summary of Statistics
Population
54,200
Total consumption for the year (gallons)
1,521,216,340
Average daily consumption (gallons)
4,167,716
Gallons per day per capita .
79.5
Main pipe :
Main pipe laid during the year (feet)
11,289
Total length now in use (miles)
150.97
Total length of pipe now in use less than 4 inches in diameter (miles)
5.9
Number of fire hydrants installed during the year
22
Number of fire hydrants now in use, including 92 private hydrants 1,340
Number of gate stops installed during the year
35
Number of gate stops now in use
2,076
Service pipe laid during the year (feet) .
26,496
Service pipe discontinued (feet)
322
Total length now in use (feet) (108 miles)
569,526
Number of taps made during the year
576
Number of taps now in use
12,381
Number of meters added during the year
588
Number of meters now in use
11,248
.
.
258
Meters in Use December 31, 1923
INCHES
Total
MAKE
5/8
3/4
1
11/4
11/2
2
3
4
6
8
Crest
·
-
-
-
-
Crown
Detector
.
-
·
-
-
-
·
.
6,668
30
33
23
28
14
4
5
1
6,806
Hersey
20
Keystone
280
King
342
Lambert .
1,329
1,274
32
6
8
9
Nash
2
Protectus
359
279
29
32
18
1
Trident
31
3
2
1
-
1
1 1
39
Union
781
Watch Dog
781
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
1
338
330
6
2
Worthington
Total
10,803
186
89
23
65
51
9
11
6
5
11,248
-
-
-
-
7
14
4
5
3
-
.
26
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
1
2
781
77
10
2
5
1
1
1
10
Gem
·
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
1
-
.
340
1
1
1
2
-
-
-
-
CITY OF QUINCY
33
31
1
-
-
8
-
18
275
4
1
876
Empire
Gates in Use December 31, 1923
INCHES
WHEN LAID
Total
2
4
6
8
10
12
16
20
Previous to December 31, 1922 Laid in 1923 .
113
276
1,110
343
100
58
37
4
2,041 35
Total
.
.
113
277
1,130
355
101
59
37
4
2,076
-
.
1
20
12
1
1
-
-
No gates abandoned in 1923.
259
REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS
·
260
Water Pipe in Use December, 1923
WATER PIPE (INCHES)
Total
WHEN LAID
1
Number of Ily- drants
Number of Gates
2
4
6
7
8
10
12
16
20
Previous to December 31, 1922 Laid in 1923 .
1,318 25
2,041 35
Feet 30,780 -
Feet 91,737 322
Feet 391,239 6,236
Feet 994
Feet 160,757 4,143
Feet 51,567 435
Feet 32,848 149
Feet 23,232
Fect 2,679 -
Feet 785,833 11,285
Total
1,343
2,076
30,780
92,059
397,475
994
164,900
52,002
32,997
23,232
2,679
797,118
Abandoned in 1923
.
.
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
In use December 31, 1923
1,340
2,076
30,780
92,059
397,475
994
164,900
52,002
32,997
23,232
2,679
797,118
CITY OF QUINCY
-
.
-
.
.
261
REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS
Fire Hydrants in Use December, 1923
MAKE
Two-way
Three-way
Four-way
Total
Bailey
1
-
-
1
Chapman
92
129
-
221
Coffin
7
460
11
478
Corey
12
295
307
Glamorgan
-
10
10
Kennedy
-
40
40
Ludlow
5
242
247
Mathews
2
3
5
Pratt & Cody
10
1
11
Smith
6
-
-
14
Total
129
1,200
11
1,340
New Fire Hydrants set in 1923
Ward
STREET
Location
1
Algonquin Road .
Opposite No. 29
2
Berkeley Street
Corner of South Street
6
Elliot Avenue
Opposite No. 53
5
Florence Street
Opposite Janet Street
2
Glenn Terrace
At end of street
6
Holyoke Street
350 feet west of East Squantum Street
6
Johnson Street
Corner of Holbrook Road
1
Longwood Road
Opposite No. 19
1
Norton Road
Opposite No. 14
1
Overlook Road
Corner Highfield Road
6
Ocean Street
300 feet west of East Squantum Street
3
Penn Street
Opposite No. 48
6
Revere Street
Opposite No. 51
6
Small Street
150 feet north of Holbrook Road
4
Shirley Street
Opposite No. 59
3
Stevens Street
Opposite No. 16
1
Thayer Street
Corner Alleyne Street
5
Thornton Street
250 feet east of Fenno Street
1
Utica Street
450 feet north of Braintree Avenue
1
Victoria Road
150 feet north of Squanto Road
6
Williams Street
350 feet west of East Squantum Street
4
Willard Street
Opposite No. 660
-
-
-
-
-
6
Walker
14
262
Water Pipes laid from January 1, 1923, to December 31, 1923
WATER PIE (INCHES)
Ward
STREET
Location
Gates
4
6
8
10
12
1
Alleyno Street
Hancock and Thayer Streets
1 8-inch
13
221
=
!
1
Algonquin Road
·
Between dead-ends
-
6
235
1
Buckley Street
Halfway up the hill
.
-
-
-
.
Kimball Street, westerly
1 6-inch
218
5
Earle Street .
Willett Street and Ferndale Road
1 6-inch
375
6
Elliot Avenue
East and west of Revere Street .
1 6-inch
351
5
Florence Street
·
From Elin Place
1 4-inch
250
-
.
Holbrook Road to West Squantum Street
2 8-inch
425
-
.
.
Under railway tracks
1 12-inch
-
.
.
1
Highfield Road
.
Extension, westerly *
·
.
2 6-inch
-
-
.
-
.
1 8-inch
6
735
2
James Street .
.
.
Extension to Lyndon Road
1 6-inch
-
97
G
Johnson Street
From Holbrook Road
1 6-inch
-
.
.
1
Kimball Street
Campbell and Shirley Streets
.
1 8-inch
-
.
.
Samoset and Moreland Streets
1 8-inch
6
250
2
Lyndon Road
Jaunes Street, southerly
.
.
.
1
Narragansett, Road
Between dead-ends .
-
216
1
.
.
.
.
.
From Fenno Street .
-
-
451
2
Glenn Terrace
6
Harvard Street
6
Hayward Street
200
1 -
6
Holyoke Street
.
.
East Squantum Street, westerly
.
.
283
190
1
Longwood Road
·
.
-
-
75
-
.
-
-
-
.
.
-
CITY OF QUINCY
149
Holbrook Road
Safford and Small Streets .
436
-
-
1
Campbell Street
108
1 Norton Road . Ocean Street
East Squantum Street to Tirrell Street
2 6-inch 1 8-inch 1 8-inch
6
30 225
-
1
5 Oxenbridge Road
Ferndale and Ellington Roads
.
5
Pine Street
Extension, northerly .
.
2 8-inch
6
577
1
4
Revere Street Shirley Street
Kimball Street, westerly ·
1 6-inch
386
6
Small Street . Squanto Road
Maypole and Waban Streets
2 6-inch
322
3
Stevens Street
School Street, southerly
1 6-inch
-
383
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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS
Chickatawbut Street to Hobomack Road
225 577
-
6
-
1
Overlook Road
Corner of Highfield Road
6
108
6
Hamilton Street, southerly
.
.
.
1 6-inch
207
-
1
Holbrook Road, northerly
.
-
263
264
Water Pipes laid from January 1, 1923, to December 31, 1923 - Concluded
Ward
STREET
Location
Gates
2
4
6
8
10
12
6
Station Street
·
.
Hancock Street, westerly
.
..
1 8-inch
3
244
6
Tirrell Street
·
.
1
Thayer Street
.
.
.
.
1 6-inch
260
-
1
Upland Road
Saville Street, southerly
1 10-inch
1
Utica Street
Braintree Avenue, northerly
1 6-inch
463
-
-
1
Victoria Road .
Extension, Squanto Road to Shore Avemie
2 6-inch
-
472
6
Williams Street .
East Squantum Street, westerly .
.
-
-
-
ʻ
4.
Willard Street .
Near West Street
.
-
72
5
Wilson Avenue .
.
West of Safford Street
.
1 8-inch
-
6
409
-
ʻ
.
-
-
CITY OF QUINCY
-
-
-
6
186
Russell and Ocean Streets
.
1 6-inch
1
-
-
5
Thornton Street
Fenno Street, easterly
.
-
435
.
.
.
.
.
274
.
WATER PIPE (INCHES)
-
65
Corner Alleyne Street
265
REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS
SEWER DIVISION
For financial statement, see the Auditor's report.
Construction work has been carried on through the whole season, and the accompanying list shows where the work has been done.
Our increase in building construction has made an increase in the number of house connections put in by the department, a total of 539 connections connecting 544 buildings, as follows:
Single houses .
301
Garage and service stations . ·
11
Two-family houses
188
Churches
2
Three-family houses
2 Hall, parish house .
1
Four-family houses
5 Schoolhouses
3
Manufacturing
10
Stable
1
Business blocks
14
Clubhouses
2
Mercantile
17
Hospital service building
1
Average cost per connection
$45 47
Average length per connection (feet)
45 45
Average cost per connection (per foot)
$1 00
Building connections by wards:
Ward 1
82
Ward 4
21
Ward 2
.
41
Ward 5
205
Ward 3
. 34
Ward 6
156
266
List of Sewers built during 1923
LOCATION
From -
To -
Ward
Length (Feet)
Size (Inches)
Number of Manholes
Bates Avenue .
.
Willard Street
California Avenue
4
622.0
8
4
Bent Place
Quincy Point main sewer
Northeasterly
2
73.0
8
1
Berry Street and private land
Dysart Street .
Quincy Avenue
2
475.0
8
3
Easterly and westerly
4
485.0
8
3
California Avenue
·
.
.
Bates Avenue .
Northeasterly
4
158.2
8
1
·
.
.
Granite Street .
.
.
Northwesterly
4
168.4
8
1
CITY OF QUINCY
-
.
Wollaston Avenue
Florence Street
5
758.45
8
4
Fenno Street
.
.
Pleasant Street
.
Stevens Street
3
161.7
8
1
Fort Square
.
Existing sewer .
Southerly
3
251.45
8
1
Franklin Street
.
Existing sewer .
Hancock Street,
5
292.8
10
3
Hall Place
Crescent Street
Southerly
4
232.0
8
1
Hilda Street
Dockray Street
Northeasterly
5
161.6
8
1
Hillside Avenue
Everett Street .
.
Linden Place
1
416.0
8
4
Oliver Street
Hunt Street ·
.
Southerly ·
6
208.0
8
1
Plymouth Street
.
.
Existing sewer .
Southerly
3
90.2
8
1
Private land
.
Bates Avenue .
California Avenue
4
202.35
8
2
.
.
6
687.0
8
3
East Squantum Street
Atlantic Street
.
Ditmar Street
.
.
.
Norfolk Street .
.
Westerly
5
120.5
8
1
·
.
.
.
·
.
.
.
.
.
Easterly
.
.
5
220.0
8
1
Linden Court and private land
Woodward Avenue
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Private land .
.
.
.
Centre Street
.
Elmwood Avenue .
Furnace Brook Parkway 1 .
.
.
.
·
California Avenue
Quincy Shore Reservation
.
Ocean Street
Williams Street
.
6
270.7
10
2
School Street .
Marsh Street
Easterly
3
147.85
8
1
Small Street
Broadway
Northwesterly .
6 00
189.3
8
1
Stevens Street .
Fort Square
Southerly
3
300.0
8
2
Williams Street
Quincy Shore Reservation .
East Squantum Street
6
1,086.0
10
4
Wilson Avenue
Safford Street
Westerly
5 and 6
114.0
8
Total .
-
7,891.50
-
47
1 Relay on account of new armory building.
Total number of miles of sewer to date, 93.883.
Sewer Assessments
The schedule of sewer betterments amounting to $9,170.53 was completed and sent out under date of January 1, 1924.
FREDERICK E. TUPPER, Commissioner of Public Works.
267
REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS
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268
CITY OF QUINCY
REPORT OF BOARD OF PARK COMMIS- SIONERS
JANUARY 1, 1924.
To His Honor the Mayor.
The Board of Park Commissioners begs leave to submit the following report for the year 1923.
Merrymount Park
This park was used more than ever during the past year, perhaps on account of a few improvements that made access to it and through it much more comfortable than heretofore. A gravel road, with tarvia top, was built directly through the park, from Fenno Street to Park Lane. All the dangerous bumps and ruts were eliminated without any apparent change in the contour of the road, and this beautiful driveway, on which no trucking is allowed, was used by innumerable pleasure cars last year.
An outlet to this road, directly behind the upper ball field, was built, and when an appropriation is made for the purpose, a road will be built along the edge of the hills as far as the new entrance to the park on Fenno Street, near Hancock Street. This entrance was made last year, and the old one, which was unsafe and dangerous, was closed.
Again I would offer the suggestion that some plan be worked out whereby a permanent band stand be erected on the farther field, and a suitable road leading to it be constructed. According to the City Engineer, the building of this would not be a large item of expense. This field over- looks Black's Creek and is in close proximity to Pine Island, to which island the Planning Board has repeatedly suggested building a bridge, and would be an ideal place for band concerts, field days and gatherings of all kinds.
An appropriation order for the erection of seats on the hill adjoining Paffmann Oval has already been introduced in the City Council, and the Board strongly recommends its passage.
Playgrounds
By means of a special appropriation by the City Council, wooden bleachers were built on the ball fields at Wards 2, 3, 4, and 6, and also at Merrymount Park. These were well needed improvements, and on ac- count of the great interest shown in the City Baseball League, they were filled to the limit at every game.
There was an unusual demand for permits for the use of baseball and football fields during the summer, and hardly an evening passed without a game of some sort. Judging from the interest already shown this spring, the coming baseball season promises to be a lively one.
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Public Bath House
This popular institution had another successful season. The demand for lockers was so large that a time limit was set on the bathers, but in spite of this fact, the bathers were uncomfortably crowded, especially on the women's side.
A large portion of the roof will have to be reshingled this year, and it is hoped that the Mayor's recommendation in the budget will be approved by the Council.
Supervised Playgrounds
It is pretty well agreed among thinking people that on the growth and physical education of the young children depends the welfare of the Nation, and hence it is needless to speak of the beneficial results obtained from the supervised playgrounds. The eagerness and activity of the children, and the attendance each day tell the story.
Mr. F. N. Nissen was our playground director, and he was assisted by a very energetic corps of instructors, who made the work and games so interesting that there was an average daily attendance of over 500 during the eight weeks of the summer that the playgrounds were in operation.
There has been quite a demand for a supervised playground in the Ward 4 section, and if the Mayor's recommendation in his budget be approved by the Council, this playground will be installed.
All suggestions are respectfully submitted for consideration.
JAMES H. SLADE, Chairman.
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NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CITY PLANNING BOARD OF QUINCY
To His Honor the Mayor and Members of the City Council.
GENTLEMEN: - In compiling our ninth annual report we find the process of including certain material not vital to the report, as made up in the city book, can more readily be placed in a subjoined appendix as appeared in our report for 1922.
The activities of the Board have been constant and not confined to our regular monthly meetings. Special conferences have been held with a committee of the Burns Memorial Association, also with a special com- mittee from the Chamber of Commerce upon the automobile parking and traffic problem.
The chairman has represented the Board at all meetings of the Metro- politan Boston Planning Federation and the State Federation in Spring- field.
A meeting January 16 with the First Parish Club, when Mr. Flavel Shurtleff gave an address upon City Planning and Zoning, was carried out by the Board.
Members of the Board addressed the Burns Memorial Association on April 12 upon city planning.
Resolutions were placed upon our records in memory of Prof. William Fenwick Harris whose sudden demise occurred early in the career of the Metropolitan Federation.
We wish to make particular note from our records of June 5, as follows:
Voted, that the Planning Board go on record as in favor of the efforts of the Chief of Police in placing the silent policeman at prominent locations, and his recommendation for curving all square corners is in the right direction to avoid accidents.
We have made upon a 10-foot scale a plan for a comfort station 30 by 36 feet in dimension, which we renew our recommendation to go upon the plot between City Hall and the railroad.
We renew all recommendations which stand in our report of 1922, item H of the Appendix. In addition to these we again call your attention to the islands at Adams Street and the Furnace Brook Parkway and most strongly recommend that they be entirely removed from the right of way. A silent policeman at the immediate junction of these two thorough- fares will divide and guide the traffic sufficiently. It will mean some little amount of street resurfacing, but to get the most of this improve- ment and secure safety, recent experiences have demonstrated this to be a necessity.
We have at different periods this year made studies and placed upon our records building lines upon Beach Street from Hancock Street to the Quincy Shore Drive, the study calling for 70 feet in width from Hancock Street to Rawson Road. We have also made a plan for a building line on Water Street from Franklin Street to Quincy Avenue a width of 60 feet.
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Upon the plan 1 accompanying this report we have placed the Edwards meadow study for a parking space, and the following building lines: Chestnut Street, 55 feet. wide; Foster Street, 55 feet wide; Cottage Avenue, 55 feet wide; Cottage Street, 50 feet wide; Revere Road, 50 feet wide; Maple Street, 55 feet wide; Russell Park, 50 feet wide, from Hancock Street, widening to 65 feet, its present layout, in its parked section. The plan also shows the needed width of the bridge at Dimmock Street and the extension previously planned for of Greenleaf Street from Hancock to Adams Street.
It will be noted that our study at Foster and Chestnut Streets and Cottage Avenue gives adequate relief for traffic through these lateral streets. We call especial attention to this recommendation for Russell Park. It will be noted upon our civic center plan that this street is not only the gateway to Faxon Field, but can be used as a thoroughfare for traffic from Hancock, Adams and Dimmock Streets, going to the east via Woodward Avenue and Coddington Street. In addition the street is susceptible of ready development for parking that will be a natural re- quirement for the Elks Home and Masonic Temple near by. In developing this width of Russell Park the taking would not be of material damage to abutting lots, being but a matter of 7} feet on either side of the present street.
We are presenting for our frontispiece a view of the new Armory, an addition to Quincy's civic construction.
The Board has before it a communication and plan of the extension of Florence Street across the meadow to Merrymount Park. These have received the approval of the board and are still before us for further con- sideration.
In the matter of zoning we have to ask the indulgence of the city au- thorities and the public. It is certainly understood that this vital matter requires the utmost care and study even to present a preliminary report. It is probable that we shall have to call in the assistance provided by the State Department of Public Welfare to assist in our councils.
In the Appendix will be found the bill presented this season's Legislature for the Pilgrim Parkway. This with the widening of the Quincy Shore Drive and missing link of the Furnace Brook Parkway has the hearty co-operation of the Planning Division of the Metropolitan Commission.
We are also submitting as a matter of general interest a copy of the questionnaire submitted to us with maps by the Metropolitan Planning Division. The maps can be referred to at our office.
In reference to the Metropolitan Boston Planning Federation we wish to quote from its constitution the following: -
No. 2. OBJECTS.
The objects of this organization shall be to co-ordinate city and town plan- ning in the municipalities comprising metropolitan Boston; to promote a regional plan for the district and the collection of data necessary for intelligent planning; and to disseminate information regarding the benefits and importance of planning.
In view of the inconsiderate discussion under way of a metropolitan Boston plan we hope that the question of Quincy and the forty-odd mu- nicipalities and towns in the district can be presented before another season by some one qualified to speak broadly upon the manifold ad- vantages and the retaining of individuality of the communities in such a combination, and dispel the bugbear of a political union.
1 Not printed.
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In concluding this report we wish it understood that this Board welcomes at all times suggestions and constructive criticisms. We have regular meeting dates the second Tuesday evening in each month, and while our functions are only advisory, our meeting records are in permanent form. The chairman is also usually in attendance at the office, Room 1B City Hall, each Monday evening when the Council is in session.
Respectfully submitted,
CITY PLANNING BOARD.
WILSON MARSH, Chairman. EZEKIEL C. SARGENT. JAMES E. W. GEARY. EDWARD E. PALMER. CHARLES H. FINN.
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