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ARTICLE 2. To see if the Town will vote to amend para- graphs 3 (a) and 3(b) of Section IX of the Zoning By-Law of the Town of Andover by striking out the same and sub- stituting therefor the following paragraphs :
3. Front Yards.
(a) No building or structure or alteration or addi- tion thereto shall extend within thirty feet in Zone A, forty feet in Zone B and fifty feet in Zone C of the street line toward which it faces, which zones are shown on Zoning Map of Revised Residence Districts in the Town of Andover, Mass. dated January 20, 1955, on file with the Town Clerk, except that open porches, small bays and eaves be exempt from the above provisions ; but in no case shall such projections extend within twenty feet of the street line in Zone A, within thirty feet in Zone B, and forty feet in Zone C. Where there is practi- cal difficulty in determining the location of the side-line of a street, or where the width of the street right-of- way is less than 40 feet, the side-lines of the street shall, for the purposes of this section, be considered to be pa- rallel to and 20 feet from the pavement or roadway center line as determined by the Town Engineer.
(b) On corner lots the above provisions shall go- vern the setback of the building or structure from either street line and no structure, fence, tree or shrub shall obstruct the traffic visibility around the corner, on petition of Frederic S. O'Brien and others.
ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Laws of the Town of Andover and change the "Zoning Map of the Town of Andover, Massachusetts, dated January 27, 1936", by changing the designation of the following area in Lowell Junction from Single Residence" to "Industrial", said area being bounded and described as follows :
Beginning at the common town boundary point between Andover-Wilmington and Tewksbury, thence running west- erly by the Andover-Tewksbury boundary to the center of
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the Shawsheen River which is a bound between Andover and Tewksbury, thence running northerly by the center of the Shawsheen River to an intersection with the line marking the limit of the present Industrial area ; thence southeasterly by said line to Lowell Junction Road; thence easterly by Lowell Junction Road to its intersection with River Street; thence southerly by River Street to the Andover-Wilmington town boundary; thence still southerly by the Andover-Wil- mington town boundary line to the common town boundary point between Andover, Wilmington and Tewksbury, the point of beginning, on petition of the Andover Planning Board.
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the amount of $10,000 for the purpose of creating a Master Plan for the Town of Andover as called for under the General Laws Chapter 41, Section 81-D. Such plan will show, among other things, existing and desirable proposed public ways, street grades, public places, bridges and tunnels, viaducts, parks, parkways, playgrounds, sites for public buildings and structures, building and zoning districts, pier- head and bulkhead lines, waterways, route of railroads, bus- es and ferries, and locations of sewers, water conduits and other public utilities, and other pertinent features of such a plan, including existing private ways. Said plan to be made under the supervision of the Planning Board, on petition of the Andover Planning Board.
ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the moderator to appoint a committee of five persons to study the present administrative organization of the town and the advantages, if any, of adopting a manager plan of adminis- tration, or an executive secretary to selectmen form of go- vernment, and to make a report of its findings and recom- mendations (together with any necessary legislation) to the next annual town meeting, and to appropriate $500.00 for the use of said committee, or take any action relative there- to, on petition of the Andover Taxpayers Association.
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ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to move the granite Memorial, in memory of Irene Wood Sutcliffe, daughter of William M. Wood, to the William M. Wood Me- morial Park, and appropriate a sum of money not exceeding $1,750.00 for said purpose, on petition of Donald A. MacNeil and others.
ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 640 of the Acts of 1953 which amends Chapter 48 of the General Laws by inserting after section 57 the following :
Section 57A. If any permanent member of the fire fighting force or fire alarm division of a fire department of a city or town is required to serve a tour of duty during the twenty- four hour period commencing at eight o'clock in the morning of January first, February twenty-second, April nineteenth, May thirtieth, July fourth, the first Monday of September, October twelfth, November eleventh, Thanksgiving day or Christmas day, or the day following when any of the five days first mentioned, or October twelfth, November eleventh or Christmas day, occurs on Sunday, he shall be given an additional day off, or, if such additional day off cannot be given because of personnel shortage or other cause, he shall be entitled to an additional day's pay; provided, that any such member who, through a rotation of shifts, works dif- ferent days in successive weeks shall be granted, in each year in which the number of holidays falling on his regular days off is in excess of the number of holidays in such year falling on Saturday, additional days off equal to the excess, and, if any such additional day off cannot be given because of per- sonnel shortage or other cause, an additional day's pay shall be allowed in lieu thereof. This section shall take effect in a city having a Plan E charter when accepted by the affirma- tive vote of a majority of the city council, subject to the pro- visions of its charter, and in a town by a majority vote at an annual town meeting, but not otherwise, on petition of Henry L. Hilton and others.
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ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to amend the by- law adopted as Article 11 at the annual town meeting of the year 1949; "by striking out the words and figures fifty-six (56) in line six or said by-law and substituting in place thereof the words and figures forty-eight (48) so that said by-law shall read as follows - 'the hours of duty of the per- manent members of the Fire Department shall be so estab- lished by the Selectmen and/or the Chief of the Fire Depart- ment so that the average weekly hours of duty in any one year, other than the hours during which such member may be summoned and kept on duty because of conflagrations or emergencies, shall not exceed forty-eight (48) hours in unm- ber', to be effective April 1, 1955", on petition of William F. Buchan and others.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate or finance through a bond issue the sum of $162,- 500 for the purpose of enlarging the Memorial Hall Library, according to plans on file with the Library Trustees, through a one story addition to the front with sidewalk level en- trance, a two story addition to the West and interior alter- ations which will result in a more efficiently operated library building better able to meet effectively the present and future needs of this growing community, on petition of the Trust- ees of Memorial Hall Library.
ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate $1,750,000.00 for the purpose of acquiring land and constructing and equipping a new High School Building; and to determine whether the money shall be provided for by taxation, by appropriation from available funds in the Treasury, or by bond issue; or take any action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to petition the General Court for au- thority to borrow $1,500,000.00 outside the statutory indebt- edness for the purpose of constructing a school building, or take any other action thereto.
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ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the School Committee to continue to maintain State-Aided Voca- tional Education in accordance with the provisions of Chap- ter 74, General Laws, and acts Amendatory thereto, or de- pendent thereon, and further raise and appropriate the sum of $1,820.00 therefor.
ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $175,000.00 for the purpose of ac- quiring land at the discretion of the School Committee and constructing and equipping a six-room addition to the West Elementary School, all work to be done under the supervision of the School Committee, $75,000.00 to be taken from avail- able funds in the Treasury, $100,000.00 to be included in the 1955 tax levy or by bonding for not more than twenty years.
ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate, or transfer from available funds, the sum of $85,- 000.00 for the purpose of constructing and equipping a four- room addition with any necessary alterations, to the Shaw- sheen School, all work to be done under the supervision of the School Committee.
ARTICLE 15. 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 after January 1, 1956 in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1956, in accordance with Section 4, Chapter 44, General Laws, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note so issued for a period of less than one year, in accordance with Section 17 of said Chapter 44.
ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will vote to accept $4,- 024.00 including a flower fund of $500.00 received in 1954, for the perpetual care of lots in Spring Grove Cemetery, on petition of Thaxter Eaton, Treasurer.
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ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Public Works to construct a water main in Tewksbury Street from the existing dead end westerly for a distance of about 800 feet, and raise and appropriate the amount of $3,200.00 therefore, on petition of James V. Let- ters, Jr. and others.
ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from dead end, at Fred Reed's Dascomb Road, westerly for a distance of about 2000 feet, to the property of Winthrop K. White, to be used for livestock, and raise and appropriate the amount of $8,- 000.00 therefor, on petition of Winthrop K. White and others.
ARTICLE 19. To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting :
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies and publication thereof, seven days at least before the time and place of said meeting as directed by the By-laws of the Town.
Hereof fail not, and make return of this warrant with your doings thereupon, at the time and place of said meeting. Given under our hands this twenty-fourth day of January, A.D. 1955.
J. EVERETT COLLINS
SIDNEY P. WHITE STAFFORD A. LINDSAY Selectmen of Andover
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TO DUPLICATE GIVE THE FOLLOWING NUMBER WITH LETTERING IF ANY
No. B50380
TEL. HANCOCK
L.E.MURAN CO. STATIONERS AND PRINTERS 288-290 DEVONSHIRE ST. 6-8522 6-8523 BOSTON 6-8524 6-8525 MASS.
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