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*This and the following figures include Junior High School bonds totalling $100700., authorized but not issued on December 31.
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Balance Sheet, December 31, 1935 GENERAL ACCOUNTS
DR.
CR.
Cash
$ 89327.35
Overlay, 1933
$ 679.78
Taxes, 1933
679.78 Overlay, 1934
6474.26
Taxes, 1934
30234.26
Overlay, 1935
5182.53
Taxes, 1935
107873.03
Overlay Reserve
18724.83
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes, 1933
140.65
Tax Title Revenue Account
6703.31
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes, 1934
1474.70
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax Revenue
6170.35
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes, 1935 Old Age Assistance, 1933
15.00
Departmental Revenue
5313.71
Old Age Abatements
25.00
Water Revenue
6282.99
Moth Assessments, 1933
1.20
Surplus War Bonus Fund
803.33
Moth Assessments, 1934
51.70
Cemetery Sales Fund
4901.00
Tax Title Account
6703.31
Excess and Deficiency
167395.44
Sidewalk Assessments
242.99
Tailings, payment stopped on old checks
59.20
Sewer Assessments 1926 and Prior
2668.78
Town Clerk's Dog License Money
37.40
Sewer Assessments Added to Taxes '31
29.40
Sewer Assessments Added to Taxes '33
10.76
Unapportioned Sewer Assessments '34
1606.89
Assessors (transfer from Reserve Fund
in re: Shawsheen Mills)
1000.00
Apportioned Sewer Assessments Added to Taxes '34
203.60
Assessors (transfer from Reserve Fund in re: American Woolen Co.)
1500.00
Apportioned Sewer Assessments '35
215.67
Amount carried forward
$246059.07
Amount carried forward
$241605.77
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River Road Anticipation of Reimburse- ment Loan
5000.00
4555.00
Special Assessment Revenue
5377.64
GENERAL ACCOUNTS -- Continued
Amount brought forward
$246059.07
Amount brought forward
$241605.77
Unapportioned Sewer Assessments '35
129.48
Fire Department (transfer from Reserve Fund)
3000.00
Committed Interest on Sewer Assess- ments '33
5.09
State Bond Issue, Highways
47.50
$2400 Grant for Blanketing Roads
146.49
Committed Interest on Sewer Assess- ments '34
107.61
Article 4, W.P.A. Projects
5384.57
Articles 32 and 34, River Road
5722.25
Committed Interest on Sewer Assess- ments '35
104.47
W.P.A. Sewing Project
150.00
Departmental Accounts Receivable
5313.71
Junior High School Project, Docket 5197
262605.70
State and County Aid to Highways
14314.39
Water Department Accounts Receivable
6282.99
Article 31, Steam Pump (1934)
539.38
Essex County Tax
1256.33
Federal Grant to School Construction
145000.00
Loans Authorized Account
100700.00
Article 31, Lowell Street (1935)
71.48
Amount carried forward
$519273.14 Amount carried forward $519273.14
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DEFERRED REVENUE
Amount brought forward $519273.14
Amount brought forward
$519273.14
Apportioned Sewer Assessments Not Due $2377.08
Apportioned Sewer Assessments Revenue Due : 1936
$330.89
1937
330.88
1938
330.85
1939
330.85
1940
296.64
1941
291.26
1942
291.25
1943
85.53
1944
78.68
1945
10.25
Amount carried forward $521650.22
Amount carried forward
$521650.22
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DEBT ACCOUNTS
Amount brought forward
$521650.22
Amount brought forward
$521650.22
Net Funded or Fixed Debt
$475000.00
Sewer Loan 1920
$10000.00
Outfall Sewer Loan 1923
90000.00
High School Loan 1916
5000.00
Shawsheen School Loan 1923
88000.00
Water Loan 1910
5000.00
Junior High School Loan 1934
277000.00
Amount carried forward
$996650. 22
Amount carried forward
$996650.22
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TRUST ACCOUNTS
Amount brought forward $996650.22
Amount brought forward
$996650.22
Trust Funds Cash and Securities $264692.72
Punchard Free School Fund
$82255:55
Reserve Fund, Punchard Free School 1748.12
Draper Fund, Punchard School
1513.27
Goldsmith Fund, Punchard School 304.72
Barnard Fund, Punchard School
1025.99
Book Fund, Class of 1917, P. H. S.
100.00
Edna G. Chapin Fund, P. H. S. 2121.60
Emma J. Lincoln Library Fund 300.00
Memorial Hall Library Fund
82509.67
John Cornell Wood and Coal Fund
5098.62
Emeline S. Lincoln Fund
1043.11
Emma J. Lincoln Fund, A. V. I. S.
300.00
Edward Taylor Fund .
297.49
Richardson School Fund
1360.43
Draper School Fund
1143.52
Holt School Fund
88.46
Dr. Edward C. Conroy School Fund
294.42
Alfred V. Lincoln Spelling Bee Fund
514.90
Varnum Lincoln Spelling Bee Fund
589.37
Abbie M. Smart Special Cemetery Fund
1122.29
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
79961.19
Isaac Giddings Burial Ground Fund
1000.00
$1261342.94 Total
$1261342.94
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Total
Treasurer's Report
Receipts and payments for the year were as follows:
Balance, January 1, 1935
$ 67,634.18 828,930.65
Receipts
896,564.83 824,143.18
Payments
Balance, December 31, 1935 $72,421.65
Junior High School construction costs are not included in these figures but $150,000. borrowed in anticipation of taxes and repaid during the year, is included. The discount rate was the lowest on record and the amount borrowed unusually small on account of the earlier payment of taxes.
Omitting these revenue loans, expenditures were 4% larger than in 1934 and involved the issuance of 9711 checks, or 12% more, largely because of the increased number of people receiving old age assistance. Payments were in accordance with 70 regular and 41 junior high school warrants signed by-the selectmen.
Summarized statements of the 675 cemetery perpetual care funds and 12 other trust funds, in the custody of the treasurer, amounting to $88,015.18, a 7% increase, will be found elsewhere in the town report.
Tax title accounts have dropped from 13 to 4 but the amount involved has increased to $6703.31.
The somewhat prompter payment of taxes is encouraging, the percentage of current taxes collected during the year of levy hav- ing improved from 75% to 77%, after a six-year decline.
The additional junior high school bonds authorized in February and December were not issued prior to the end of the year, partly because the money was not actually needed at the time and also because the final maturities of the Punchard High School loan come in 1936 leaving the total amount to be raised for retirement of debt in 1937 only $1700. more than at present.
The statement of the junior high school special account is as follows:
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Balance, January 1, 1935 Loan
S268,724.94 300.00
Construction Costs
269,024.94 252,119.24
Balance, December 31, 1935
$16,905.70
THAXTER EATON, Treasurer
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Report of Tax Collector
1931
Amount of Sewer Assessment
$29.40
Sewer Assessment uncollected
$29.40
$29:40
$29.40
1932
Amount of Warrant
$ 20.20
Amount of Excise Warrant
113.80
Amount of Old Age Assistance Warrant
9.00
Interest on Taxes
3.10
Interest on Excise Taxes
8.12
Taxes Collected
$ 20.20
Excise Taxes Collected
54.25
Old Age Assistance collected
7.00
Interest on Taxes collected
3.10
Interest on Excise collected
8.12
Excise abated
59.55
Old Age Assistance abated
2.00
$154.22
$154.22
1933
Amount of Warrant
$19,034.79
Amount of Moth Warrant
66.04
Amount of Excise Warrant
1,515.17
Amount of Old Age Assistance Warrant
359.00
Amount of Sewer Assessment (apportioned)
162.91
Interest on Taxes
1,754.10
Interest on Excise
53.92
Interest on Sewer
19.16
Amount of Committed Interest on apportioned sewer
76.59
Costs on Polls
12.95
Taxes collected
$17,142.22
Moth Collected
59.89
Excise Collected
482.88
Amount carried forward
$17,684.99
$23,054.63
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Amount brought forward
$17,684.99
$23,054.63
Old Age Assistance Collected
132.00
Sewer assessment collected (apportioned)
152.15
Interest on Taxes
1,754.10
Interest on Excise
53.92
Interest on Sewer
19.16
Committed Interest on Sewer
Collected
71.50
Costs on Polls Collected
12.95
Taxes abated :
Poll
420.00
Personal
500.97
Real Estate
170.22
Moth abated
3.60
Excise abated
891.64
Old Age Assistance abated
. 212.00
Taxes Credited :
Tax Titles taken over by Town
121.60
Moth Credited :
Tax Title taken over by Town
1.35
Taxes uncollected
679.78
Moth uncollected
1.20
Excise uncollected
140.65
Sewer uncollected (apportioned)
10.76
Committed Interest on apportioned Sewer uncollected
5.09
Old Age Assistance uncollected
15.00
$23,054.63
$23,054.63
1934
Amount of Warrant
$122,398.69
Amount of December Warrant
104.73
Amount of Moth Warrant
170.15
Amount of Sewer Assessment (apportioned)
209.24
Amount of Sewer Assessment (unapportioned)
3,328.05
Amount of Committed Interest on Sewer
259.97
Amount of Excise Warrant
4,420.01
Amount carried forward $130,890.84
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Amount brought forward
$130,890.84
Amount of Additional Excise Warrant
117.72
Interest on Taxes
4,111.89
Interest on Excise Taxes
125.45
Refunds on Taxes
48.68
Refunds on Excise Taxes
ยท 16.11
Costs on Polls
13.30
Taxes Collected
$89,245.34
Moth Collected
113.80
Sewer Collected (apportioned)
5.64
Sewer Collected (unapportioned)
547.91
Excise Collected
3,004.73
Interest on Taxes Collected
4,111.89
Interest on Excise Collected
125.45
Committed Interest on Sewer Collected
2.97
Adjustment on Committed Interest
146.16
Costs on Polls Collected
13.30
Taxes Abated :
Real
266.27
Moth Abated
2.40
Excise Abated
74.41
Sewer (unapportioned) abated
200.00
Taxes Credited :
Tax Titles taken over by Town
2,806.23
Moth Credited:
Tax Title taken over by Town
2.25
Taxes Uncollected
30,234.26
Moth Uncollected
51.70
Sewer Uncollected (apportioned)
203.60
Sewer Uncollected (unapportioned)
1,606.89
Committed Interest on apportioned Sewer Uncollected 110.84
Excise Uncollected
1,474.70
Sewer (unapportioned) Credit:
Tax Title taken over by Town
82.00
Sewer (unapportioned) Apportioned
during year 891.25
$135,323.99
$135,323.99
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1935
Amount of Warrant
$479,462.42
Amount of December Warrant
789.59
Amount Added to Polls
40.00
Amount of Sewer Assessment (apportioned)
336.45
Amount of Sewer Assessment (unapportioned)
388.38
Apportioned Sewer-Paid in Advance
71.72
Amount of Committed Interest on Apportioned Sewer
153.63
Amount of Excise Warrant
21,202.96
Interest on Taxes
128.56
Interest on Excise
22.11
Refunds on Taxes
58.21
Refunds on Excise
467.29
Costs on Polls
2.80
Taxes Collected
$369,381.41
Sewer Collected (apportioned)
120.78
Sewer Collected (unapportioned)
69.00
Excise Collected
16,107.04
Interest on Taxes Collected
128.56
Interest on Excise Collected
22.11
Committed Interest on Sewer Collected
49.16
Costs on Polls Collected
2.80
Taxes Abated :
Real
1,187.89
Personal
194.04
Poll
2.00
Excise Abated
1,008.21
Taxes Credited :
Tax Titles taken over by Town
1,711.85
Taxes Uncollected
107,873.03
Sewer Uncollected (apportioned)
215.67
Sewer Uncollected (unapportioned)
129.48
Committed Interest on Apportioned Sewer Uncollected
104.47
Excise Uncollected
4,555.00
Apportioned Sewer-Paid in Advance
71.72
Sewer (unapportioned) Apportioned during year
102.50
Sewer (unapportioned) Paid direct to
Treasurer 87.40
$503,124.12
$503,124.12
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Summary Collector's Cash Account
1935
1934
1933
1932
Total
Taxes
$369,381.41
$89,245.34
$17,142.22
$20.20
$475,789.17
Moth
113.80
59.89
173.69
Old Age
132.00
7.00
139.00
Excise
16,107.04
3,004.73
482.88
54.25
19,648.90
Sewer:
Apportioned
120.78
5.64
126.42
Apportioned-paid in advance
71.72
71.72
Unapportioned
69.00
547.91
152.15
769.06
Costs on Polls
2.80
13.30
12.95
29.05
Interest on Taxes
128.56
4,111.89
1,754.10
3.10
5,997. 65
Interest on Sewer :
Apportioned
64
19.16
19.80
Committed Interest
on Sewer
49.16
2.97
71.50
123.63
Interest on Excise
22.11
125.45
53.92
8.12
209.60
$385,952.58
$97,171.67
$19,880.77
$92.67
$503,097.69
WILLIAM B. CHEEVER Collector of Taxes
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Assessors' Report
We herewith submit our annual report:
Number of assessed polls 3327
Valuation of personal estate
$ 3,215,765.00
Valuation of real estate
12,976,295.00
$16,192,060.00
Tax on polls
6,654.00
Tax on personal estate
93,900. 59
Tax on real estate
378,907.83
$479,462. 42
Abatements
Poll Taxes
2.00
Personal estate
194.04
Real estate
1187.89
Rate of Taxation on $1000
29.20
Number of assessed
Horses
161
Cows
650
Neat cattle
138
Swine
271
Fowl
25,975
Dwellings
2550
Acres of land
16,814. 51 more or less
MOTOR VEHICLE EXCISE TAX
Number of vehicles assessed 3531
Assessed valuation
$812,520.00
Excise
21,202.96
Abatements
1008.21
Rate on $1000
33.06
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DECEMBER ASSESSMENTS
Number of assessed polls 20
Valuation of personal estate
$15,264.75
Valuation of real estate
11,775.00
Tax on polls
40.00
Tax on personal estate
445.84
Tax on real estate
343.75
BETTERMENT ASSESSMENTS
Salem Street Sewer
$388.38
JEREMIAH J. DALY, Chairman HOWELL F. SHEPARD, Secretary J. EVERETT COLLINS Board of Assessors
Municipal Properties and Public Improvements
Land and Buildings
Equip. and other property
Total
Town Hall
$ 95,800
$ 5,150
$100,950
Fire Department
59,508
27,564
87,072
Police Department
275
1,000
1,275
Schools
623,595
26,179
649,774
Library
122,600
39,170
161,770
Water Department
90,920
536,240
627,160
Sewer Department
2,500
402,880
405,380
Highway Department
4,300
8,045
12,345
Infirmary
44,125
2,538
46,663
Cemeteries
27,500
1,500
29,000
Weights and Measures
350
350
Town Scales
500
500
Old Schoolhouse, Ballardvale
14,470
14,470
Punchard School Fund
77,000
77,000
Memorial Hall Investment Funds
73,000
73,000
Nine Acres Land, Burnham Rd.
2,500
2,500
Pomps Pond Beach
2,000
2,000
Totals
$1,156,093
$1,206,116
$2,362,209
Park Department
66,000
66,000
Tree Warden and Moth Department
5,000
5,000
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Report of Planning Board
The Planning Board has continued its efforts to explain the purpose of the Zoning By-Law to the property owners of the Town. All suggestions received from citizen property owners have been considered, and changes made in the By-Law comply- ing with requests.
We appreciate the assistance of those who have been helpful, and trust this. Zoning By-Law will be accepted by the citizens at Town Meeting.
WALTER M. LAMONT, Chairman ROY E. HARDY, Secretary EDWARD P. HALL SIDNEY P. WHITE BERNARD L. McDONALD
February 3, 1936
Proposed Zoning By-Law Andover, Massachusetts-1936
SECTION I
PREAMBLE. By virtue of and pursuant to the provisions of Gen- eral Laws, Chapter 40 and 143, sections 29-33 of Chapter 93, and Chapter 269 of the Acts of 1933 and any and all amendments and additions to all of said Chapters; the use, construction, repair, alteration, height, location and area of buildings and structures and the use of premises in the Town of Andover are hereby regulated as herein provided; in order to promote the health, safety, convenience, morals and general welfare of the inhabitants, to lessen the danger from fire and to improve and beautify the Town.
SECTION II
DEFINITIONS. In this By-Law the following terms shall have the meanings assigned to them :
"A" A one-family house is a detached dwelling intended and designed to be occupied by a single family.
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"B" An accessory use or building is the use of land or building customarily incident to, and located on, the same lot with another use of land or a building.
"C" Non-conforming use of land or building is an existing use of land or a building which does not conform to the regulations for the district in which such use of land or building exists.
"D" A street as used in this By-Law, shall be interpreted to mean any public way laid out for vehicular traffic or any private way laid out for or used as a public way for such traffic.
"E" A lot is that area of land described in an application for a permit.
SECTION III
USE REGULATIONS. For the purpose of this By-Law, the Town of Andover is hereby divided into five types of Districts designated as follows:
1. Single Residence Districts. 4. Industrial Districts.
2. Educational Districts. 5. Agricultural Districts.
3. Business Districts.
The boundaries of four districts are shown on a map entitled "Zoning Map of the Town of Andover, Mass. Dated Jan. 27, 1936," signed by the Planning Board, and on file with the Town Clerk; and said map and all explanatory matter thereon are hereby made a part of this By-Law. Agricultural Districts will be defined.
The boundaries between the districts are, unless otherwise indicated, the center lines of streets, avenues or railroad rights-of- way. Wherever any uncertainty exists as to the exact location of the boundary line, the location of such a line shall be determined by the Inspector of Buildings.
SECTION IV
SINGLE RESIDENCE DISTRICTS. In Single Residence Districts, except as herein otherwise pro- vided, no new building or structure and no alteration, enlarge- ment or extension of an existing building or structure shall be
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designed, arranged or constructed, and no land, building, struc- ture, or part thereof shall be used, except for one or more of the following purposes :
1. One family detached houses or double houses to conform to neighboring residences.
2. The taking of boarders, or the leasing of rooms by a family residing on the premises, but not permissable to construct or operate over-night camps.
3. Boarding and lodging houses, and hotels. Subject to per- mit by Board of Appeals as provided in SECTION XIII, Article 3.
4. Churches, schools, public buildings, public libraries, public museums and parish houses.
5. Cemeteries, hospitals, sanitaria, philanthropic institutions, and airports with essential accessories. Subject to permit by Board of Appeals as provided in SECTION XIII, Article 3.
6. Private clubs not conducted for profit, subject to permit by Board of Appeals as provided in SECTION XIII, Article 3.
7. Public parks, playgrounds, recreational buildings, water towers and reservoirs.
8. Telephone exchanges provided there is no service yard or garage and that the design of the building is approved by the Planning Board in writing after being assured of its architectural harmony with the surrounding district.
9. Real estate signs, of not over six square feet in area adver- tising the sale or rental of only the premises on which they are located; lodging, boarding houses and tourist signs of not over 2 sq. ft. and signs or bulletin boards of not over 10 sq. ft. accessory to uses specified in Par's. 4, 5, 6 and 7 of this Sec., and placed as Planning Board may direct, and not inconsistent with Sec. 29-33 inclusive, of Chap. 93 of the General Laws, or with rules and regulations of the Division of Highways.
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10. Railroad passenger stations or rights-of-way including customary accessory services therein; not including switch- ing, storage or freight yards or sidings.
11. Such accessory purposes as are customarily incident to the foregoing purposes, and are not injurious to a neighborhood as a place of residence. Subject to provisions of SECTION XI.
SECTION V
EDUCATIONAL DISTRICTS. In Educational Districts no building or structure shall be so arranged or
designed to be used in any part except for one or more of the following purposes :
1. Any use permitted in Single Residence Districts.
2. Private school, college, academy, institute, or other use of an educational character.
3. Recreational buildings, amusement buildings, institution power and heating plants.
4. Such accessory uses as are customary in connection with the uses enumerated in clauses 1, 2, and 3.
SECTION VI
BUSINESS DISTRICTS.
1. Any use permitted in a Single Residence or Educational District.
2. Apartment or tenement houses and hotels, subject to other by-laws.
3. Banking houses or office buildings.
4. Retail stores, and shops for custom work or the making of articles to be sold at retail on the premises. Subject to provisions of SECTION XI, Article 4.
5. Places of amusement or assembly.
6. Restaurants and other places for serving food.
7. Gasoline filling stations and oil stations, garage repair shops, sales rooms for motor vehicles and stables. Subject to provisions of SECTION XIV and permit by Board of of Appeals.
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8. Any building used for commercial or business purposes including that of a barber, caterer, clothes cleaner and presser, confectionery, decorator, dressmaker, electrician, florist, furrier, hair dresser, hand laundry, manicurist, milliner, motor vehicles sales room, news dealer, optician, painter, paperhanger, pastry shop, photographer, printer, publisher, shoemaker, shoe repairer, shoe shiner, tailor, undertaker; and of a blacksmith, baker, builder, carpenter, contractor, dyer, mason, plumber, roofer, tinsmith, up- holsterer; and similar uses which the Board of Appeals may in specific instances find to be compatible with the uses above mentioned and subject to provisions of SEC- TION XIII, Article 3.
9. Signs or/and billboards as regulated by law and by-laws.
SECTION VII
INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS.
1. Any use permitted in Single Residence, Educational or Business Districts.
2. Lumber, fuel, feed, and ice establishments, and contrac- tors yards.
3. Railroad yards, sheds, and roundhouses; but not including repair shop except as accessory to said uses.
4. Any industry or manufacturing which will not be seriously detrimental or offensive to adjoining districts or tend to reduce property values in said district or adjoining dis- tricts by reason of dust, odor, fumes, smoke, gas, wastes, refuse matter, noise or excessive vibration or danger of explosion or fire; and subject to a permit from the Board of Appeals as provided under SECTION XIII, Article 4.
SECTION VII-A
AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS. No building or structure shall be so arranged, or designed to be used in any part, except for one or more of the following purposes :
1. Any use permitted in Single Residence Districts.
2. Residence, Barns, Stables, Poultry or Pig Shelters, or any building used as an accessory to the conducting of a farm.
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3. Roadside stand permits shall be granted for the sale of farm produce raised on the land or in the neighboring towns. Stands must set back from street line 30 feet.
4. Manufacturing of Cider, Vinegar, Dairy Products, Poultry, Saw Mills, Gravel Products.
5. Retail shops for custom work to be produced and sold at retail on the premises.
6. Gasoline filling stations and oil stations, garage repair shops, upon the granting of a permit by the Board of Appeals, where the Board believes that public convenience and necessity demands it. Subject to conditions laid down by the Board.
7. The removal of loam to be permitted to one-half (12) of its depth only.
8. The Board of Appeals may grant a permit for a retail store, where the Board is convinced that public necessity and convenience demands.
9. Overnight camps not allowed.
10. The removal of sand, gravel or quarried stone from land bordering on or within 250 feet of Dascomb Road, Lowell Street, or River Road, shall not be permitted, except by permit of Board of Appeals.
11. Signs as regulated by Town and State Law.
SECTION VIII
HEIGHT REGULATIONS.
1. In Single Residence and Educational Districts, the limit of height of buildings shall be two and one-half (21/2) stories, not to exceed thirty-five (35) feet in any part measured above the top of the foundation; except, that municipal and school buildings, dormitories and hotels, where per- mitted in said districts may be three (3) stories in height not to exceed forty feet, and further excepting farm build- ings located on farms of not less than ten acres in area, which are not limited in height.
2. In Business Districts, the limit of height of buildings shall be three (3) stories, not to exceed forty (40) feet, measured above the top of the foundation.
3. In Industrial Districts, the limit of height of buildings
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shall be four (4) stories, not to exceed sixty (60) feet measured above the top of the foundation; except that dwellings shall not exceed three (3) stories in height measured as set forth above.
4. Exceptions. The limitations of height shall not apply in the case of chimneys or ventilators or towers, spires or other ornamental features of buildings permitted in said districts and in no way used for living purposes.
SECTION IX
AREA AND YARD REGULATIONS. In Single Residence and Educa- tional Districts.
1. Size of Lots. Land subdivided after the adoption of this By-Law shall provide for lot frontages of not less than 75 feet and for lot areas of not less than 10,000 square feet.
2. Existing Lots of Record. Lots duly recorded and|or shown on plans filed at the Registry of Deeds at the time this By-Law is adopted may be used provided that the yard requirements as set forth below are fulfilled.
3. Front Yards.
(a) No building or structure or alteration or addition thereto shall extend within thirty feet of the street line toward which it faces, except that open porches, small bays, and eaves be exempt from the above provisions; but in no case shall such projections ex- tend within twenty feet of said street line.
(b) On corner lots the above provisions shall apply only to one side of the building or structure, and the other side shall not extend within twenty feet of the street line and no structure, fence, tree or shrub, shall obstruct the traffic visibility around the corner.
(c) Exceptions. Where there are other existing buildings within 200 feet on each side of the lot in question and within the same block and district, the structure may extend as near the street line as the average alignment of said existing adjacent principal buildings, except that where such buildings are more than 30 feet from said street line-a new building shall not extend
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nearer said line than the average setbacks of such existing buildings.
4. Side Yards. At each side of every dwelling there shall be a side yard not less than 15 feet in clear width, between the side of the house and the side lot line, except in specific cases when existing lots are less than the minimum width prescribed in this By-Law. In such cases a side yard not less than ten feet in width may be permitted by the Board of Appeals.
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