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TABLE III
Cities and Towns in the Vicinity of Lincoln Comparative Data
City or Town
1950 Pop.
Eq. Val. Per Pupil
1951-1952 Sch. Support Per Pupil*
1951 - 1952 Exp. Per Pupil Excl. Gen. Control All grades
1951 - 1952 Exp. Per Pupil Excl. Gen. Control I - VIII
Organization Plan
Brookline
57589
$25,673
$339
$353.93
$301.97
8-4
Concord
8623
10,569
279
281.25
249.81
8-4
Lexington
17335
8,979
227
205.90
6-3-3
Newton
81994
14,859
287
285.93
6-3-3
Wayland
4407
6,264
206
.
122.191
8-4
Wellesley
20549
15,049
272
249.96
6-3-3
Weston
5026
12,958
295
302.73
6-3-3
Belmont
27381
17,658
331
333.74
6-3-3
Winchester ...
15509
13,698
257
252.32
213.31
8-4
Waltham
47187
10,556
235
222.23
6-3-3
Lincoln
2427
10,184
232.56
244.09
204.00
8
Andover
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12437
12,255
232
179.75
6-3-3
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EDUCATION AND RECREATION
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Minimum Salary
Median Salary
Maximum Salary
Number at Maximum
Number over Maximum
Total Teachers
Brookline
$3,400
$4,900
$5,000
148
0
311
Concord
2,700
3,550
4,400
7
13
72
Lexington
2,600
3,600
4,200
6
15
130
Newton
2,800
4,200
4,700
17
121
548
Wayland
Wellesley
2,700
4,300
4,400
21
56
156
Weston
2,700
3,700
4,800
1
9
51
Belmont
2,600
4,100
4,100
24
71
172
Winchester
2,800
4,200
4,700
5
21
114
Waltham
2,700
4,000
4,000
83
411
244
Lincoln
2,800
3,300
5,000
0
0
22
Andover
2,600
3,400
3,700
11
7
71
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
.
* Does not include tuition, transportation of private school pupils, school lunches, out- of-town transportation, evening and vocation schools.
+ Data for previous year.
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EDUCATION AND RECREATION
STAFF ROSTER - JANUARY I, 1953
Name
Position
Training
Appointed
Andrew J. Manges
Superintendent of Schools
Butler University
1948;
Harvard Grad. Sch. of Ed. A.B., M.S. Ed.
Robert B. Patch
Principal-
State Teachers' College, 1952
New School Fitchburg, B.S. Ed.
Louis J. Sapienza
Principal- Boston University, B.S. Ed_ 1950
Center School
Phyllis Johnson Grade One Lesley College, B.S. Ed. 1946
Augusta F. Sisk Remedial Boston University, B.S. Ed. 1946;
and Guidance
Ann G. Paranya Language Arts S.T.C., Montclair, N.J., A.B. 1949
Irma Antonangeli
Grade Three Fitchburg State Teachers College, 1950
B.S. Ed.
Edward J. Czarnowski Physicał Education
Boston University, B.S. Ed., Ed. M. 1950
Joseph P. McVinney
Manual Arts
Boston University, B.S. Ed. 1950
Hazel Flagg
Grade Five
Sargent 1951
Miriam Zartarian Art
Tufts College, B.S. Ed. 1951
Harvey R. Berger
Social Studies
Tufts College, A.B., Ed. M. 1951
Dorothy E. Booth Grade One
Indiana University, B.S. Ed. 1951
Sylvia Gavel
Grade Two
Tufts College, B.S. Ed.
1951
Robert J. Johnson
Grade Four
Boston University, A.A., B.S. Ed. 1951
Joan B. Warren
Kindergarten
Boston University, B.S. Ed., 1951
Ed. M.
Madeleine C. Wilson
Grade Two
Wellesley College, A.B. 1951
Elizabeth Feno
Grade Four
Wheaton College, B.A. 1952:
Naney Heaton
Grade Three Arizona State Teachers, A.B. 1952:
Prudence Morey
Grade Five
Duke University, A.B. 1952.
Jane Owen
Kindergarten
Wheaton College, A.B. 1952
Spero Pappas
Science
State Teachers' College, 1952
North Adams, B.S. Ed.
Jean C. Scott
Music
Fort Hays Kansas State College, B.S. Ed.
1952
Warrant for 1953
NOTICE
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
MIDDLESEX, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lincoln in said County:
GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify the legal voters of said Town of Lincoln qualified to vote in Town Meeting for the Transaction of Town affairs, to meet in the Town House in said Lincoln, on Monday the second day of March next at 7:30 o'clock P.M. then and there to act on the following articles except Article 1 and also to meet in said Town House on Saturday, the seventh day of March next, at 12 o'clock Noon, then and there to act on the following Article 1, by posting a copy of this Warrant, by you attested in each of the Post Offices, and in some other public place in said Town seven days at least before the second day of March next.
The polls for voting the Australian ballot on Saturday, March seventh will be open at 12 o'clock Noon, and may be closed at 7 o'clock P.M.
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WARRANT FOR 1953
Article 1. To bring in their votes for the following Town Officers and any other officers required by law, to be elected by Australian Ballot viz:
One Town Clerk for one year.
One member of the Board of Selectmen for three years. One member of the Board of Assessors for three years. One Treasurer for one year.
One Collector of Taxes for three years.
One Auditor for one year.
One member of the School Committee for three years. One member of the Board of Water Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Board of Health for three years.
One Tree Warden for one year.
One member of the Trust Fund Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Trustees of the Bemis Fund for Free Public Lectures for three years.
One member of the Board of Cemetery Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Planning Board for five years.
One Director for the deCordova and Dana Museum and Park for four years.
and also the following question:
Shall the Town accept the provisions of Chapter 402 of the Acts of 1952? (See page 25)
This measure provides for restricting the use of lands abutting the Highway now known as Route 2 in the Towns of Lincoln and Concord.
Article 2. To bring in their votes for any committees, commissioners, trustees, and other officers, required by law to be elected by ballot or otherwise. Selectmen
Article 3. To hear and act upon the reports of Town Officers, Committes, Commissioners and Trustees. Selectmen
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Article 4. To fix the salaries and compensation of the several elective officers of the Town and to determine whether any Department, Board or Committee shall be authorized to employ for additional compensation any of its members and to fix additional compensation of such members. Selectmen
Article 5. To raise and appropriate money for the necessary and expedient purposes of the Town and enact anything in relation to the same.
Selectmen
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1953, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Selectmen
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to conduct services on Memorial Day, the thirtieth of May, appoint a committee, raise and appropriate money, or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen
Article 8. To see if the Town will accept as a public way, the private road known as Huntley Lane, as shown on a plan recorded with South Middlesex District Reg- istry of Deeds, Plan book 7820 plan 4 and approved by the Planning Board of the Town of Lincoln June 11, 1952.
By Petition
Article 9. To see if the Town will approve the instal- ation of an oil-burner in the present library furnace at a cost of approximately five hundred dollars to be paid from available trust funds, or take any action relative thereto.
(See Report of Library Trustees).
Library Trustees
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WARRANT FOR 1953
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $406.80 to pay the following un- paid 1952 bills :
Cemetery Department $272.00
Fire Department 35.89
School Department 98.91
Treasurer
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to continue the Committee for the 200th Anniversary of the Town and appropriate the sum of $2,500 for its use, or take any other action relative thereto.
(See Report of the Selectmen) .
Selectmen
Article 12. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate a sum of money for the purchase of a sprayer and second hand truck for the use of the Tree Warden, or take any other action relative thereto.
(See Report of the Tree Warden).
Selectmen
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $300. for work on the Assessor's Maps, or take any other action relative thereto.
Assessors
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,000. for the salary and expenses of an assistant, to be employed by the Selectmen, or take any other action relative thereto.
(See Report of Board of Selectmen).
Selectmen
Article 15. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $1,750. to be used in settlement of the suit against the Town by Frederick Stickel, or to reimburse the Water Department for funds paid in settlement of said suit, or take any other action relative thereto.
(See Report of Board of Selectmen) .
Selectmen
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WARRANT FOR 1953
Article 16. To see if the Town will appropriate for the use of the School Building Committee, the sum of $2,000. or such other sum as will complete the addition to the New School or take any other action relative thereto.
School Building Committee
Article 17. To see if the Town will authorize the School Building Committee to take preliminary steps toward the acquisition of additional land and ways ad- jacent to the New School, appropriate the sum of $1,500. for expenses, or take any other action relative thereto.
School Building Committee
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of a sand spreader for the use of the Highway Department or take any action relative thereto.
(See Report of Superintendent of Streets).
Selectmen
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law by striking out Sections 2 to 23 in- clusive, as amended, and substituting therefor the follow- ing Sections 2 to 16, inclusive:
Section (2) Definitions:
.In this by-law the following terms shall have mean- ings as described below :
(a) Structure: An entire building, including appurten- ances thereto, or any construction upon which hu- man effort has been expended and which extends more than eight feet in length or breadth and seven feet in height measuring to the extremities of all parts.
(b) Dwelling: A structure, house, or building which is used or occupied in whole or part for residence.
(c) Family: Any number of persons living together as a single economic unit.
(d) One-Family Dwelling: A dwelling designed for one family.
(e) Two-Family Dwelling: A dwelling designed for or occupied by two families.
(f) Apartment House: A dwelling occupied by more than two families, or a structure occupied by one or more families above a first floor used for non- residential purposes.
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(g) Rooming or Boarding House: A dwelling in which the family resident therein provides eating and/or sleeping accommodations for not more than three paying guests.
(h) Hotel or Lodging House: A structure or part there- of, or a group of structures on a single lot, where space is used for sleeping or feeding more than three persons as paying guests, regular or transient ..
(i) Lot: The whole area of a single parcel of land un- der one ownership. Whenever such a parcel is di- vided on a plan which has been recorded or filed at. the Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds the term "lot" as used in this by-law shall mean a lot. as shown on such plan; or a lot shall mean a single parcel on the plot plan accompanying application for a building permit.
(j) Street: A public way, a way opened or dedicated to public use or a way plotted and laid out for ulti- mate public use, whether or not constructed.
(k) Street Line: The sideline of a street or way, as determined by deeds and plans recorded at the Reg- istry of Deeds; where no line is thus legally estab- lished, then a line parallel with and twenty feet distant from the center line of a travelled way.
(1) Use: The act of using land or structures, or where the context permits, the erection, construction, re- pair, enlargement, or alteration of a structure in- tended for use.
(m) Accessory Use: A use which in the Town of Lincoln is customarily incidental to the principal use to which it is accessory.
(n) Non-Conforming Use: A legally existing use which does not conform to the zoning regulations for the district in which it is located.
(0) Private Garage: Covered space for the housing of motor vehicles, no more than two of which belong to others than the occupants of the lot on which such space is located.
(p) Service Station: A structure or lot used for the sale of gasoline and oil or for servicing or storing motor vehicles, other than a private garage.
(q) Automobile Repair Shop: A shop or garage for the repair of motor vehicles, other than a private garage or service station.
Section (3) Administration
(a) The provisions of this by-law shall be administered and enforced by the Inspector of Buildings.
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(b) No application of any kind shall be approved unless the plans, specifications and intended use set forth in said application conform in all respects with this by-law, or unless the applicant has secured a written permit from the Board of Appeals, pur- suant to Section 11 below.
(c) Any application for a new or altered use of land or structure shall be accompanied by a specific reference to the subject lot as recorded in the Reg- istry of Deeds, or by two copies of a plan of the lot, drawn to scale, showing the entire recorded ownership, all existing structures, all abutting streets, and the exact area and boundaries of the parcel to be assigned to the subject use. A record of such application and plan shall be kept on file.
Section (4) Zoning Districts
(a) For the purpose of this by-law the Town of Lincoln is divided into 3 classes of districts, designated as follows:
Single Residence Districts, General Residence Dis- tricts, Commercial Districts.
(b) Said districts are established as shown, defined and bounded on the map accompanying this by-law, entitled Zoning Map of Lincoln, Mass., dated Feb- ruary 2, 1953, and filed with the Town Clerk. Said map and all explanatory matter thereon are hereby made a part of this by-law.
Section (5) Single Residence Districts
In a single residence district no lot shall be used and no structure shall be erected, maintained, altered, or used for any purpose other than the following, including accessory uses :
(a) One-family detached dwelling, provided that there shall be only one such dwelling per lot.
(b) Rooming or boarding house.
(c) Church, parish house, religious or denominational school not conducted for profit.
(d) Publicly operated building, school, park or area dedicated to municipal use or service.
(e) Farm, greenhouse, nursery, truck garden; stand for sale of farm produce by a resident of Lincoln, pro- vided that a major proportion of all products sold shall have been raised within the Town and provided further that space for customers' cars is available off the right-of-way of the street.
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(f) Office or studio operated or maintained by a person resident in the structure, or a customary home oc- cupation conducted in a dwelling structure or ac- cessory building by a resident, provided that not. more than one person not resident in the structure is employed therein. In such cases one sign of not. more than two square feet in area may be dis- played.
(g) Accessory uses, including private garage, private stable, or farm buildings used as part of the opera- tion of a farm.
(h) Subject to permission of the Board of Appeals, as provided in Section 11 below, the following: private school, cemetery, hospital, sanitarium, nurs- ing home, or charitable institution; use of land or structure by a public utility; community club not. conducted for profit; conversion of a one-family dwelling existing at the time this by-law was orig- inally adopted into a two-family dwelling, pro- vided that the exterior appearance be not signifi- cantly altered, and provided further that the lot appurtenant to said dwelling have an area of at least 60,000 square feet.
(i) Subject to permission of the Board of Appeals, as provided in Section 11 below, a sand or gravel pit. or the removal of soil, loam, sand or gravel from a property not in public use. In granting a permit therefor the Board shall specify such limitations and safeguards as it may deem appropriate. This provision shall not limit the removal of excess ma- terial from a property when such removal is inci- dental to the construction of an approved structure or street.
Section (6) General Residence Districts
Uses permitted in a general residence district shall be the following, and no others:
(a) Any use permitted in a single residence district sub- ject to the same restrictions aș are prescribed therein.
(b) Two-family dwelling, provided that there shall be only one detached dwelling per lot.
Section (7) Commercial Districts
Uses permitted in a commercial district shall be the following, and no others:
(a) Any use permitted in a general residence district, including as a right those uses listed in Section 5h, and including subject to permission of the Board of Appeals those uses listed in Section 5i.
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(b) Apartment House, Hotel or Lodging House.
(c) Retail store or service establishment.
(d) Business or professional office; bank.
(e) Restaurant or other place for serving food.
(f) Place of business of caterer, confectioner, decora- tor, dressmaker, optician, mortician, craftsman, or member of a building trade, and similar uses.
(g) Service station, provided that repairs shall be limª ited to minor changes and adjustments, and pro- vided that gasoline pumps and equipment shall be so located that vehicles can not be serviced unless they are entirely on the service station lot.
(h) Automobile salesroom, provided that no display of vehicles for sale shall be permitted closer to the street line than the major structure on the same lot.
(i) Sign or display advertising goods or services avail- able on the lot, provided that no sign or display shall project beyond the street line, shall be illumi- nated other than by indirect white light, or shall have a gross area of more than 30 square feet.
(j) Subject to permission of the Board of Appeals, as provided in Section 11 below, the following:
Theatre, moving-picture house, bowling alley, skating rink or similar commercial amusement place, but not including outdoor moving picture or dancing establishments;
Lumber, fuel, feed, or ice establishment, yard for the keeping of materials or equipment by contractor, landscape constructor, or landscape gardener; automobile repair shop.
Light manufacturing and similar activities, pro- vided that such proposed activities will not be offensive, injurious or noxious because of noise, vibration, smoke, fumes, dust, odors, danger of fire or explosion, or other characteristics detri- mental to a dominantly residential town.
Any permit granted under this subsection (j) shall be subject to the provision that no storage of ma- terials appurtenant thereto shall be permitted be- tween the street line and the front line of struc- tures on the subject lot, or if there be no structure, within 40 feet of the street line.
Section (8) Height Regulations
(a) The maximum height of any structure in a single residence district shall be 35 feet or three stories.
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(b) The maximum height of any structure in a general residence or commercial district shall be 30 feet or two and one-half stories.
(c) In determining the height of structures any floor level shall be counted as a story if it is to be used in part for sleeping rooms, or if it is higher than three feet below the average ground level around the exterior walls of the structure. A half-story is that portion of a structure under a sloping roof, the cubic contents of which are never more than half of those of the story below; if the cubic contents: are greater than half, it shall be deemed a story. Limitations of height shall not apply to chimneys,. ventilators, skylights, towers, spires, tanks, silos and other features usually carried above roofs, if such features are in no way used for living purposes.
Section (9) Area and Yard Regulations
(a) Except as hereinafter specified, there shall be pro- vided for each dwelling or other main structure or use a lot with a minimum area as follows:
Area
In single residence districts 40,000 sq. ft.
In general residence districts 12,000 sq. ft.
For dwellings in commercial districts 12,000 sq. ft. Under no conditions shall there be less than 6,000 square feet of lot area for each family to be housed on said lot.
(b) Except as hereinafter specified, there shall be pro- vided for each dwelling in any district and for each main non-residential structure in a residential dis- trict a lot having at least 80 feet of frontage on a street, at least 80 feet in any direction from side lot line to side lot line between said street and such structure and the shortest distance taken through such structure, from side lot line to side lot line, . shall be at least 160 feet.
(c) The provisions of paragraphs "a" and "b" shall not prevent the use of lots, legally established at the time these provisions were first adopted, which are non-conforming as to width or area, but no such lot shall be changed as to size or shape so as to decrease its width or area.
(d) No more than 25 percent of the area of any lot may be covered by structures,
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(e) No structure or part thereof in any district shall be so located as to extend within 40 feet of a street line, except that this shall not apply to uncovered steps.
(f) No structure or part thereof in a residential dis- trict, and no dwelling or part thereof in a commer- cial district, shall extend within 30 feet of a side or rear lot line. This restriction shall not apply to ac- cessory building in residence districts, provided that the distance from any part of such structures to the lot line shall exceed its height above the ground level.
(g) No accessory or main buildings shall at any points be less than 10 feet apart unless they conform to building code regulations relative to fire safety.
Section (10) Non-Conforming Uses
(a) Nothing in this by-law shall prevent the continua- tion of a non-forming use of lot or structure.
(b) No increase in the extent of the non-conforming use of a structure or lot may be made.
(c) Wherever a non-conforming use has been changed to a more restricted use, it shall not again be changed to a less restricted use.
(d) Wherever a non-conforming use has been aban- doned for a period of more than one year it shall not be re-established and any future use shall con- form to this by-law.
(e) Wherever a structure, or part thereof, put to a non- conforming use is destroyed or damaged, it may be reconstructed substantially as it existed prior to such destruction or damage and may continue to be used for the same or a more restricted use; provided that reconstruction is in fact commenced within a year following the date of such destruction or damage, and the reconstruction is completed and the structure occupied within a reasonable time thereafter.
Section (11) Board of Appeals
(a) A Board of Appeals is hereby established in ac- cordance with Section 30 of Chapter 40 of the Gen- eral Laws, as amended. Said Board shall consist of five members each appointed by the Board of Selectmen for a term of five years provided that only one term shall expire each year; there shall be two Associate Members, each appointed by the Board of Selectmen for a period of four years, one term to expire every second year, to serve on said
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Board of Appeals in case of a vacancy, inability to act, or interest on the part of a member.
(b) The Board of Appeals shall adopt such rules of procedure and exercise such powers and duties as are consistent with paragraphs 3 through 9 of Sec- tion 30 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, as amended. Said rules of procedure shall include provisions for submission of petition in writing, for advertising and holding hearings, for keeping records of proceedings, for recording the vote of each member upon each question, for setting forth the reason or reasons for each decision, and for notifying the parties at interest, including the Building Inspector and the Planning Board, as to each decision. The powers and duties of the Board of Appeals shall include the power to determine action in the cases set forth in paragraphs "c", "d" and "e" below.
(c) The Board of Appeals shall hear and decide appeals taken by any person aggrieved by reason of his in- ability to obtain a permit from the Building In- spector acting as enforcement officer under this by-law.
(d) The Board of Appeals shall hear and decide re- quests for special permits as provided in Sections 5-h, 5-i, and 7-j of this by-law.
(e) The Board of Appeals shall hear and decide re- quests for variance from the terms of this by-law where, owing to conditions especially affecting the lot or use in question, a literal enforcement of the provisions of the by-law would involve substantial hardship to the appellant, and where the desired relief may be granted without detriment to the public good and without substantially derogating from the intent or purpose of this by-law.
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