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By-Law was originally adopted, either is separately owned or con- tains five thousand square feet, is fifty feet wide and is shown on a recorded plan of lots. In a Residence A or B district not more than thirty-five per cent of the area of any lot shall be occupied by a building or buildings, and in a Residence C, Business or Indus- trial District not more than fifty per cent of any lot occupied by a dwelling shall be occupied by a building or buildings, provided that on any corner lot an additional four hundred square feet may be occupied .- No action.
Par. 5A-One building may be erected on any lot with an area of 7500 square feet and 70 feet wide in Zones B, C, Business and Industrial provided the lot is shown on a recorded plan of lots placed on record prior to March 1954 and this exception shall also apply to any lot in Zone A having an area of 15,000 square feet and 100 feet wide .- No action.
ARTICLE 32. To see if the Town will vote to amend Par. 1 Section 1 of the Zoning By-Law so that the Zoning Map dated May 2, 1940, as most previously amended, be changed to provide that the "Zoning" of the following described areas be changed as follows:
a. From Residence A to Industrial-a parcel of land bounde 1 by West Street on the north side, Granite Street on the east side, King Hill Road on the south side and an unnamed street running from West Street to King Hill Road on the west side, said parcel containing approximately 340 acres more or less and the zoning change to be effective in each case from a distance of 200 feet setback from the street lines. This land is shown on Assessors Plans 1032, 1033, 1034, 2048, 2049, 2050 and 2051 .- So voted.
b. From Residence B to Industrial-a parcel of land bounded by the Plymouth Branch of the N.Y., N.H. & H. R.R. Co. on the northerly side, by Liberty Street on the easterly side with a 100 ft. setback, by Grove Street on the southerly side with a 100 ft. setback from the street line in each case, and by Plan Street on the westerly side with approximately a 1000 ft. setback from the street line containing approximately 35 acres more or less and shown on Assessors Maps 1082 and 1084 .- No action.
c. From Residence B to Industrial-a parcel of land bounded by Plain and Grove Streets on the northerly side with a 130 ft. set- back from each street line, on the westerly side approximately 900 ft. adjacent to the present industrial area, by the river on the southerly side and by a line from the River to an unnamed street containing approximately 120 acres more or less as shown on As- sessors Maps 1085, 1086, and 1105 .- No action.
ARTICLE 33 ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law and the Zoning Map dated May 2, 1940, as amended, by providing that the following described area shall be classified as an industrial area: an area bounded on the west and south by the present industrial area adjoining Plain Street and the Plymouth Branch of the Old Colony Railroad; on the east by Plain Street and a way from Plain Street to Pearl Street, and on the north by a line parallel to and two hundred feet southerly from Sagamore Street.
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Voted: That Par. 1 Section 1 of the Zoning By-Law be amended
So that the Zoning Map dated May 2, 1940, as most previously amended, be changed to provide that the following described area be changed from Residence B District to Industrial District: An area bounded on the west and south by the present Industrial Area adjoining Plain Street and the Plymouth Branch of the Old Colony Railroad; on the east by Plain Street for a distance of 580 feet from the present Industrial area and on the northeast by a line running from Plain Street to the southwesterly corner of Plot 119 as shown on Assessors Plan 1027 for a distance of 660 feet more or less, on the north by a line parallel to and 200 feet southerly from the southerly street line of Sagamore Street .- Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 34. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law and Zoning Map dated May 2, 1940 as most recently amended by providing that the following described area shall be classified as a business district :- a tract of land near the Braintree Parking Area and bounded southerly by land of Mabel L. Bates and Braintree Masonic Association, Inc., 324.45 feet more or less, westerly 275 feet on land of Joseph Barile by a line from a drill hole in a stone wall to the southwesterly corner of land of John J. Alves and otherwise by the Business Zone as previously established.
Voted: That Par. 1, Section 1 of the Zoning By-Law be amended so that the Zoning Map dated May 2, 1940, as most pre- viously amended, be changed to provide that the following de- scribed area be changed from Residence B District to a Business District: A tract of land near the Braintree Parking Area and bound- ed southerly by land of Mabel L. Bates and Braintree Masonic As- sociation, Inc., 284 feet more or less, westerly 275 feet on land of Joseph Barile by a line from a drill hole in a stone wall to the southwesterly corner of land of John J. Alves, on the northerly side of land of John J. Alves and Dearing Avenue 181 feet more or less, on the easterly side by the rear lot lines of Plots 25B, 24, 23, 22B 22A and 21 on Assessors Plan 2028 a distance of 247 feet more or less and includes the Braintree Parking Area .- Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 35. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law and the Zoning Map dated May 2, 1940, as amended, by providing that the following described area shall be classified as a Business District :- a tract of land at the corner of Hancock and Washington Streets containing 28,500 square feet of land more or less as shown on Assessors' Plan 1008, Plot 32, Part of Lot 2 .- No action.
ARTICLE 36. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law and the Zoning Map dated May 2, 1940, as amended, by providing that the following described areas shall be classi ied as Residence B districts:
1. Beginning at a point on the southerly side of Union Street at the intersection with Middle Street and running Northeasterly by Union Street One Hundred no/100 feet, thence turning and run- ning Southeasterly One Hundred no/100 feet, thence turning and running Southwesterly One Hundred no/100 feet, thence turning and running Northwesterly by Middle Street One Hundred no/100 feet, to the point of begining:
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2. Beginning at a point on the Southerly side of Union Street at the intersection with Middle Street and running Northwesterly by Union. Street One Hundred no/100 feet, thence turning and running Southwesterly One Hundred no/100 feet, thence turning and running Southeasterly One Hundred no/100 feet, thence turning and running Northeasterly by Middle Street One Hundred no/100 feet to the point of beginning:
3. Beginning at a point on the Northerly side of Union Street at the intersection with Middle Street and running Southwesterly by Union Street One Hundred no/100 feet, thence turning and running Northwesterly One Hundred no/100 feet, thence turning and running Northeasterly One Hundred no/100 feet, thence turning and running Southeasterly by Middle Street One Hundred no/100 feet to the point of beginning:
4. Beginning at a point on the Northerly side of Union Street at the intersection with Middle Street and running Southeasterly by Union Street One Hundred no/100 feet, thence turning and run- ning Northeasterly One Hundred no/100 feet, thence turning and running Northwesterly One Hundred no/100 feet, thence turning and running Southwesterly by Middle Street One Hundred no/100 feet to the point of beginning.
Voted. That Par. 1, Section 1 of the Zoning By-Law be amended so that the Zoning Map dated May 2, 1940, as most previously amended, be changed to provide that the following described areas be changed from a Business District to Residence B District, the areas as follows:
1. Beginning at a point on the southerly side of Union Street at the intersection with Middle Street and running northeasterly by Union Street 100 feet, thence turning and running southeasterly 100 feet, thence turning and running southwesterly 100 feet, thence turning and running northwesterly by Middle Street, 100 feet; to the point of beginning:
2. Beginning at a point on the southerly side o fUnion Street at the intersection with Middle Street and running northwesterly by Union Street, 100 feet, thence turning and running southwesterly 100 feet, thence turning and running southeasterly 100 feet, thence turning and running northeasterly by Middle Street, 100 feet to the point of beginning:
3. Beginning at a point on the northerly side of Union Street at the intersection with Middle Street and running southwesterly by Union Street 100 feet, thence turning and running northwesterly 100 feet, thence turning and running northeasterly 100 feet, thence turning and running southeasterly by Middle Street 100 feet to the point of beginning.
4. Beginning at a point on the northerly side of Union Street. at the intersection with Middle Street and running southeasterly by Union Street 100 feet, thence turning and running northeasterly 100 feet, thence turning and running northwesterly 100 feet, thence turning and running southwesterly by Middle Street 100 feet to the point of beginning .- Unanimous vote.
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ARTICLE 37. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Laws and the Zoning Map dated May 2, 1940, as most recently amended, by providing that the following described area shall be classified as a Residence B District:
The land in the southeastern part of the Town of Braintree being bound and described as follows: Easterly by the Braintree-Wey- mouth Town lines running from Columbian Street to the Braintree- Weymouth - Holbrook Town lines; southerly by the Braintree-Hol - brook Town line from the point last mentioned to Liberty Street; westerly and northwesterly by Liberty Street from the point last mentioned to Grove Street; and northerly by Grove Street and Columbian Street to the point of beginning .- No action.
ARTICLE 38. To see if the Town will vote to abandon a sewer taking made in November, 1949, against the N.Y., N.H. & H. R.R. Co., Inc., running from Hancock St. to what was formerly South Braintree Laundry, Inc., as shown on sewer taking plan No. 118, and filed in Norfolk Registry of Deeds Book 2874, Page 229, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That the Town authorize the Sewer Department to aband- on its easement for sewer purposes over land of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Railroad Company Inc., shown on Sewer Taking Plan No. 118 .- Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 39. To see if the Town will vote to abandon the sewer taking made in June 1953, against N.Y., N.H., & H., R.R. Co., Inc., running from Old Road towards Washington Street, as shown on Sewer Taking Plan No. 145, filed in Norfolk Registry of Deeds Book 3178, Page 457, or taken any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That the Town authorize the Sewer Department t abandon its easement for sewer purposes over land of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co., Inc., shown on Sewer Taking Plan No. 145 .- Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 40. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of constructing an ele- mentary school building in the Perkins Area and for originally equipping same; determine how the money shall be provided for, by borrowing, by appropriation from available funds in the treasury, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted: Upon recommendation of the Finance Committee that the sum of $183,000.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of constructing an elementary school building in the Perkins area, off Lincoln Street, and for originally equipping and furnishing the same; and that to meet said appropriation the sum of $21,500.00 bc transferred-$19,215.18 from the unexpended balance of the appro- priation for the 'Monatiquot School Annex and $2,284.82 from the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the Penniman School Annex; and that the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow the sum of $161,500.00 under authority of Chapter 645 of 1948 as amended, and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor payable in accordance with the pro. visions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, so that the whole loan
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shall be paid in not more than twenty years from the date of issue of the first bond or note; and that the Perkins Area Development Committee appointed pursuant to vote under Article 36 of the war- rant for the 1953 Annual Town Meeting, be and hereby is author- ized to act for and in behalf of the Town with full power to employ architects, secure bids, and let contracts in the name of the Town, and to do all and any acts necessary to construct and equip and furn- ish said building within the aforesaid appropriation .- Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 41. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to. raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds for the acquisition of a site or sites for future schools, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That the Selectmen be authorized to take by eminent. domain for school purposes, a parcel of land presumed to be owned by the School Fund Committee, containing about 16 acres with a frontage of about 275 feet on West Street and about 240 feet on Granite Street, for the sum of $1.00.
Voted. That control of lot numbered 5 on Assessors Plan No. 1082, containing about 14 acres on Plain Street, be transferred to the School Department for school purposes; said parcel having been acquired by the Town through tax title foreclosure .- Unanimous.
Voted: That our representatives be requested and instructed, so far as we have the power to do, to petition the legislature for permission to use such portion of the Town Forest as may be selected by the School Site Committee for school purposse .- Unani- mous.
ARTICLE 42. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the School. Committee to eliminate the Kindergarten grade from the school system as of the closing of the schools in June 1954 .- No action.
ARTICLE 43. To see what sums of money the Town will vote. to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds, to be ex- pended under the direction of the South Shore Mosquito Control Project for the eradication of mosquitoes, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That the sum of $5,800.00 be raised and appropriated to be used as the Town's contribution for 1954 to enable it to defray its share of the expenses of the South Shore Mosquito Control. Project.
ARTICLE 44. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds for the eradication and prevention of "Dutch Elm" disease, so-called, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $5,000.00 for the eradication and prevention of "Dutch Elm" disease, said sum to be expended under the direction of Highway Department.
ARTICLE 45. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds for "Gypsy Moth" control, or take any other action relative thereto.
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Voted: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $1,525.00 for "Gypsy Moth" control, $500.00 of said sum to be for salary of Moth Superintendent and $1,025.00 to be expended under the direction of said Superintendent in conjunction with Highway Department.
ARTICLE 46. To see if the Town will authorize the sale of a portion of the parcel acquired for the Town Dump covering a tract of land approximately twenty acres abutting on Ivory Street, and to determine the minimum price for which and the manner in which it shall be sold, or take any other action relative thereto .- No action.
ARTICLE 47. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds for the con- struction of a retaining wall on the easterly side of Ferncroft Road for a distance of approximately 80 feet from Glenrose Avenue, or take any other action relative thereto .- No action.
ARTICLE 48. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds for the construction of a curbing in front of 439 Washington Street, or take any other action relative thereto .- No action.
ARTICLE 49. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, Lakeside Drive, approximately 1290 feet from the present acceptance, as laid out by the Selectmen and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of same, or take any other action relative thereto .- No action.
ARTICLE 50. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, Ivory Street, as laid out by the Select- men and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of same, or take any other action relative thereto .--- No action.
ARTICLE 51. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, Azel Road, from the present ac- ceptance to Lakeview Avenue, as laid out by the Selectmen, and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of same, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That Azel Road for a distance of 310 feet from present acceptance to Lakeview Avenue, as laid out by the Selectmen and approved by the Planning Board, be accepted as and for a Town Way and that the sum of $1,723.00 be raised and appropriated for the improvement of same and that betterments be assessed to the extent of 66 and two-thirds per cent of the cost of said improvement. -Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 52. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, Marshfield Road, as laid out by the Selectmen, and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of same, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That Marshfield Road, for a distance of 270 feet from Franklin Sreet to Azel Road, as laid out by the Selectmen and ap- proved by the Planning Board, be accepted as and for a Town Way and that the sum of $1,533.00 be raised and appropriated for the
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improvement of same and that betterments be assessed to the ex- tent of 66 and two-thirds per cent of the cost of said improvement. - -Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 53. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, Home Park Road, as laid out by the Selectmen, and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of same, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That the Town accept as and for a Town Way, Home Park Road, as laid out by the Selectmen, and the sum of $2,695.00 be raised and appropriated for improvement of same, and that better- ments to the extent of 662/3% of the cost be assessed on abutting estates .- Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 54. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, Walnut Street Extension from present acceptance to Common Street, as laid out by the Selectmen, and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of same, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That the Town accept as and for a Town Way, Walnut Street (Ext.) from the present acceptance to Common Street as laid out by the Selectmen, and the sum of $3,506.75 be raised and ap- propriated for improvement of the same, and that betterments to the extent of 66 2/3% of the cost be assessed on abutting estates .- Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 55. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, Boscobel Street, approximately 115 feet from the present acceptance, as laid out by the Selectmen, and appropriate a sum of money for the improvemnet of same, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: That Bascobel Street for a distance of approximately 60 feet from present acceptance, as laid out by the Selectmen, be accepted as and for a Town Way and that the sum of $217.00 be raised and appropriated for the improvement of same and that better- ments be assessed to the extent of 66 2/3% of the cost of said im- provement .- Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 56. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to construct an asphalt sidewalk on the northerly side of Hunt Avenue under the Betterment Act or otherwise and appropriate a sum of money therefor, or take any other action relative thereto .
Voted: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $764.00 for the laying of an asphalt sidewalk on the northerly side of Hunt Avenue, and that betterments to the extent of 50% of the cost thereof be assessed upon abutting estates .- Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 57. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate or transfer from available funds a sum or sums of money for the improvement of the easterly side of Washington Street from President Road to School Street West, or take any other action relative thereto .- No action.
ARTICLE 58. To see if the Town will vote to sell to Joseph Drinkwater, Jr. a small parcel of land lying between premises owned by him and Union Street, or take any other action relative thereto.
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-No action.
ARTICLE 59. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to approve the appointment by the Moderator of a permanent Industrial Commission consisting of not less than five members, at least one of whom shall be employed in Braintree, to serve terms of three years each with one member of the first appointed body to serve one year, two to serve two years and two to serve three years, and appropriate the sum of one hundred dollars for the first year's expenses of the Commission.
Voted: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $100.00 to be used for the first year's expenses of a permanent Industrial Commission to be appointed by the Moderator. Said Com- mission to consist of not less than five members, at least one of whom shall be employed in Braintree, to serve terms of three years each, with one member of the first appointed body to serve one year, two to serve two years, and two to serve three years .- Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 60. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds to meet the payment of certain bills contracted prior to January 1, 1954, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted. That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $590.55 to meet the payment of certain unpaid liabilities incurred prior to January 1, 1954:
Police Department:
Clark & Taber, Inc. . $ 41.62
Winer's Hardware Stores, Inc. .49
New England Tel. & Tel. Co. 169.48 City of Quincy, Hospital Dept. 12.00 $223.59
Fire Department: Clark & Taber, Inc. 366.96
$590.55
ARTICLE 61. To see what sums of money in addition to that appropriated under any other article, the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate for Land Damages .- No action necessary.
ARTICLE 62. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to appropriate for the purpose of the Stabilization Fund under the authority of Section 5B of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, or take any other action relative thereto .- No action.
ARTICLE 63. To see what disposition the Town will vote to make of the income of the Thayer Fund .- No action necessary.
Appropriations to be raised by taxation $2,846,866.04 Appropriations not in tax levy 879,862.62
Total Appropriations $3,726,728.65
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Special Town Meeting-June 1954
ARTICLE 1. To see what action the Town will take to rescind the vote taken under Article 41 of the Annual Town Meeting of 1954 concerning the petition to the Legislature to permit the Town to use part of the Town Forest as a school site.
Voted: That the Town rescind its action taken at the Annual Meeting requesting and instructing our representatives to petition the Legislature for permission to use a portion of the Town Forest for school purposes.
ARTICLE 2. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds for the acquisition of a site or sites for future schools, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted: (a) That there be appropriated and transferred from available funds in the Treasury the sum of $3,050.00 for the pur- chase or taking by eminent domain, which purchase or taking is hereby authorized, for school purposes, of a parcel of land shown as Plot No. 1 on Assessors' Plan 1098 owned by Angelo and Josephine Digaetano excepting two lots containing a total of approximately 2.4 acres, with buildings thereon, one at the intersection of Peach and Liberty Streets, and the other at the southwest corner of the Plot as shown on Plan by Town Engineer dated June 22, 1954; said parcel to contain approximately 7 acres:
(b) That there be appropriated and transferred from available funds in the Treasury the sum of $1,875.00 for the purchase or taking by eminent domain, which purchase or taking is hereby authorized, for school purposes, of a parcel of land shown as Plot No. 2 on Assessors' Plan 1098 consisting of 15.07 more or less acres total (1.43 more or less acres in easement) owned by Mary B. Mc- Sharry:
(c) That there be appropriated and transferred from available funds in the Treasury the sum of $325.00 for the purchase or taking by eminent domain, which purchase or taking is hereby authorized, for school purposes, of a parcel of land shown as a small part (ap- proximately 2.6 acres) of Plot No. 1 on Assessors' Plan No. 1087 owned by Moreland Trust, shown on plan by Town Engineer dated June 22, 1954.
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