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ARTICLE 47. Zoning By-Law, Residence B to Business Zone.
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: That Paragraph 1, Section 1 of the Zoning By-Law be amended so that the Zoning Map dated May 2, 1940, as most previously amended, be further amended to provide that the zoning classification of a tract of land described as follows: A trian- gular parcel of land containing approximately six (6) acres beginningl at the junction of Old Colony Avenue and Washington Street and run- ning northeasterly along said Washington Street approximately Sev- enteen Hundred (1700) feet to point where it meets Old Colony Rail- road right of way, thence turning and running southwesterly along the Old Colony Railroad right of way approximately One Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty Five (1785) feet, then turning and running easterly along the northerly side of Old Colony Avenue to point of beginning approximately Two Hundred Sixty Four (264) feet: thei foregoing described area is shown in full detail on Assessors' Plan as follows: Assessors' Plan 1053 Plots 1 to 8 inclusive, 8A, 10 and 10A: Assessors' Plan 1054 Plot 3 to 10 inclusive and 10A; be changed from, Residence B District to Business District.
ARTICLE 2.
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: That the highest commendation and thanks be extended to Mr. Joseph M. Magaldi, Chairman of the Brain- tree Planning Board, and associate members Mr. William G. Dyer, Mr. Edward J. Rose, Mr. Frederick J. Klay and Mr. Mitchell W. Gawlowicz.
ARTICLE 48. South Shore Mosquito Control Project.
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: That the sum of $5,600.00 be raised and appropriated to be used as the Town's contribution for 1956 to. enable it to defray its share of the expenses of the South Shore Mos- quito Control Project, and that said sum be transferred from available funds in the Treasury.
ARTICLE 49. Dutch Elm Disease.
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: That there be raised and appro- priated the sum of $5,000.00 for the eradication and prevention of "Dutch Elm" disease, so-called, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Highway Department, to be raised by transfer from available funds in the Treasury.
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ARTICLE 50. Insect Pest Control.
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: That there be raised and appro- priated the sum of $1,525.00 for "Gypsy Moth Control", $500.00 of said sum to be for the salary of the Moth Superintendent, and $1,025.00 to be expended under the direction of said Superintendent in conjunc+ tion with the Highway Department, said total of $1,525.00 to be raised by transfer from available funds in the Treasury.
ARTICLE 51. Acceptance of Streets as Town Ways.
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: That the following streets, layouts of which were approved by the Planning Board in accordance with Chapter 41 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth, be accepted as and for Town Ways:
Name of Street
Distance (Ft.)
From and To
Cindy Lane
350
Off Farm Rd.
Conrad Street
550
Roberts to Elmlawn
Edwards Road
380
Roberts to Conrad Ext.
Farm Road
368
Arnold St. past Cindy Lane
Marcia Road
544
Worthington Circle
Worthington Circle
1076
Common St.
Moreland Ave.
245
Celia to Peach
Phyllis Ave.
327
Celia to Peach
Blossom Road
1075
Partridge Hill past Brierwood
Brierwood Road
1140
Blossom to Partridge Hill Rd.
Virginia Road
270
Washington to Milton
Bradford Road
987
Milton to Alden
Alden Road
225
Brewster to Bradford
Celia Road
526
Phyllis past Moreland
ARTICLE 2.
SO VOTED: That the Moderator appoint a committee of five (5) with at least two (2) members being full time Town Employees to investigate the Group Insurance Plan for Town Employees, and bring back to a subsequent town meeting any plans and recommenda- tions, and insert any articles in the Warrant for the next subsequent Town Meetings they deem necessary.
ARTICLE 52. Acceptance of Belmont Street as Town Way.
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: That the Town accept as and for a Town Way, Belmont Street so-called, as laid out by the Selectmen and that there be raised and appropriated the sum of $2,975.00 for im- provement of the same, and that betterments to the extent of 6673% of the cost be assessed on abutting estates.
ARTICLE 53. Acceptance of Elm Knoll Road as a Town Way. No Action. SO VOTED
ARTICLE 54. Sidewalks and curbing, east side of Commercial Street.
SO VOTED: No Action.
ARTICLE 55. Sidewalks and Curbing, Hamilton Street.
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SO VOTED: No Action.
ARTICLE 56. Sidewalks and Curbing, Elliot Street.
SO VOTED: No Action.
ARTICLE 57. Sidewalks, Commercial Street.
SO VOTED: No Action.
ARTICLE 58. Sidewalk & Curbing, Corner of Commercial & Faxon Streets.
SO VOTED: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $513.00 for the construction of sidewalk and curbing at the corner of Commercial Street and Faxon Street.
ARTICLE 2. Report of the Committee appointed to study the advisability of having a Town Cemetery:
Report of the Committee appointed by the Moderator in accord- ance with the vote taken at the March 1955 Town Meeting, said Committee to study the advisability of having a Town Cemetery.
The committee has made a study of this matter. What Town Ceme- tery facilities are available today are most limited and not too attrac- tive. There is one large scale cemetery which is privately owned to which the people must turn when the need arises and of course with little choice, the people of Braintree must accept the terms and condi- tions of the private cemetery or seek cemetery facilities outside the Town of Braintree.
The operation of a cemetery and the acquisition of land for such purpose is a costly item; however, it may be possible to locate sufficient Town owned land that could be utilized for cemetery purposes. We find that most land owners have placed a high value on their holdings and the Town would be compelled to pay anywhere from $1,000 to $2,000 per acre to acquire any land for cemetery purposes.
The sharp increase in our population and with greater increases anticipated within the next ten years it behooves the Town to take steps within the very near future to set aside land for cemetery pur- poses.
The Committee feels that further study of Town owned land may. possibly reveal suitable areas which could be used for cemetery uses and it is suggested that this committee be permitted to continue this study with the hope that a favorable solution may be found in locating land owned by the Town thereby saving an initial cost of several thousand dollars.
Respectfully submitted, JOSEPH M. MAGALDI FRANCIS S. CARTER MATHIAS A. GORHAM G. VINTON JONES RAYMOND P. PALMER
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: That the report be accepted and the Committee continued.
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ARTICLE 2. Report of the Committee to study the value and need of incineration :
It was voted under Article 2 of the 1954 Town Meeting: The Moderator appoint a Committee of five to prepare a study of the value and need of incineration for the Town of Braintree. The Committee shall be instructed to prepare a report and if deemed advisable, insert an Article in the Annual Town Warrant asking for funds to construct a Town or Regional Incinerator.
The Committee gave its report at the Annual Town Meeting of 1955 and asked for continuance of the Committee. It was so voted.
Last year we were saddened by the loss of our Chairman a faithful worker for the welfare and betterment of the Town of Braintree, Dr. B. Joseph Rizzo.
Upon investigation of the Town's need of incineration and always keeping in mind the cost of same, we have discovered that a neighbor- ing community of ours has been approached by private interests to construct an incinerator. A member of our Committee has been looking into the possibility of our Town using this incinerator. The prospects look very good. This incinerator is being designed to burn refuse and garbage.
Plans for this project are now in the preliminary stage. The Com- mittee recommends that the Town take no action on the matter at this time other than to continue the Committee to keep this matter under study and report to the next Annual Town Meeting or Special Town Meeing if deemed advisable.
A. WILLIAM ALBERT, Secretary GEORGE H. CAIN DONALD J. LAING RAMON A. NAGLE
SO VOTED: That the report be accepted and the committee continued.
ARTICLE 59. Drainage between Putnam Avenue and Middle Street.
SO VOTED: No Action.
ARTICLE 60. Amend By-Laws, Article 13, Section 18.
SO VOTED: No Action.
ARTICLE 63. Stabilization Fund.
SO VOTED: No Action.
ARTICLE 2.
The adoption of the following resolution :
WHEREAS, E. Curtiss Mower, our Moderator, has conducted the several sessions of our 1956 Town Meeting in his usual consistently and extremely impartial manner, and
WHEREAS, our Town Clerk, Carl R. Johnson, Jr., has recorded for posterity accurately the proceedings, and
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WHEREAS, the Finance Committee under the able direction of its Chairman, James McCue, has done such outstanding and efficient work as to acquaint our membership of the various and sundry prob- lems confronting our Town in a most fair and impartial manner, and
WHEREAS, the Quincy Patriot Ledger has reported the pro- ceedings most accurately and efficiently and without bias, and
WHEREAS, Radio Station WJDA of Quincy has cooperated with the citizens of our Town by broadcasting each session verbatim on the day following each session to the comfort, benefit and enjoyment of our shut-ins and general public, and
WHEREAS, the Observer has also done a good job in reporting the proceedings of the several sessions, now therefore
BE IT RESOLVED, that we, the Town Meeting Members of Braintree, as our sessions come to a close, sincerely thank each and every one referred to above for their kindness, consideration and ac- curacy of the proceedings of the 1956 Town Meeting.
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED
Upon motion duly made by Mr. Delorey, it was
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: That the Annual Town Meeting stand adjourned.
A true copy, ATTEST:
CARL R. JOHNSON, JR., Town Clerk.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
Tuesday, December 11, 1956
Pursuant to a Warrant duly issued, the Special Town Meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Braintree, represented by their duly elected and qualified Town Meeting Members, was held in the Braintree Town Hall on Tuesday, December 11, 1956.
The meeting was called to order at 7:50 o'clock in the evening by the Moderator Mr. E. Curtiss Mower.
There were 180 Town Meeting Members present.
The Moderator stated that since the last Annual Town Meeting! a vacancy had developed among the Town Meeting Members of Pre- cinct 2 and under the Town Meeting Statute the Town Meeting Mem- bers of that Precinct had held a meeting at 7:00 o'clock this evening and duly elected Arthur E. Stenberg to fill the term until the next Annual Town Election.
Upon motion duly made by Mr. Foster, it was
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: That this meeting does hereby ad- judge that the following individual has been duly elected and is quali- fied to act as a member of this meeting for a term ending at the next Annual Town Election, this vote being taken to confirm the action of the Town Meeting Members of Precinct 2: Arthur E. Stenberg.
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The following tellers were appointed by the Moderator to serve during the course of the evening:
Jack R. Ainsleigh Raymond P. Palmer
J. Paul Benson
Harry E. Holt
William H. Low
Ernest J. Janssen
Arthur W. Moffatt
William H. Gustafson
We now continue with consideration of the Articles in the Warrant.
ARTICLE 1. Authorization of sale of portion of Braintree Golf Course to the Walworth Manufacturing Company.
That the Selectmen are hereby authorized to sell to the Walworth, Manufacturing Co. upon approval by the General Court if the same be required, a certain parcel of land being part of the premises com- monly known as the Braintree Golf Course property, bounded and described as follows :
Beginning at a point 283.67 feet due south from the southwesterly corner of land now or formerly of Volpe LC411E lot A 1 also shown. on Plot 73 on Assessors' Plan No. 1048, and 100 feet west of Highland Avenue and running in a southwesterly direction at a 103 degree angle for a distance of 210 feet more or less to a point; thence turning and running southwesterly at a 138 degree angle for a distance of 793 feet more or less to a point; thence turning and running southerly to a northwesterly bound of a parcel of land of the Town of Braintree being Plot 13 on Assessors' Plan No. 1054 for a distance of 380 feet more or less; thence continuing in a southerly direction along the westerly boundary of said Plot 13 on Assessors' Plan No. 1054 for a distance of 350 feet more or less to the southwesterly corner of said Plot 13 on Assessors' Plan 1054; thence turning and running westerly along the northerly boundary of land shown as Plot 12 on Assessors" Plan No. 1054 for a distance of 60 feet more or less to the northwesterly corner of Plot 12 on Assessors' Plan No. 1054; thence turning and running southerly 75 feet more or less to the southeasterly corner of Plot 1 on Assessors' Plan No. 1054; thence turning and running west- erly along the southerly boundary of said Plot 1 on Assessors' Plan No. 1054 for a distance of 460 feet more or less to the southwesterly: corner of said Plot 1 on Assessors' Plan No. 1054; thence turning 90 degrees and running southerly 255 feet more or less to the northerly boundary of land of Town of Braintree shown as Plot 11 on Assessors' Plan 1054; thence turning and running easterly along the northerly boundary of said Plot 11 on Assessors' Plan No. 1054 and continuing easterly along the northerly boundary of land of Donald shown as Plot 11A on Assessors' Plan No. 1054 to the easterly bound of said land and the Old Colony Railroad right of way for a distance of 1210 feet more or less; thence turning and running northeasterly along the westerly boundary of land of the Old Colony Railroad right of way for a distance of 496 feet more or less to the westerly boundary line of Old Road; thence turning and running in a northerly direction along the westerly side of Old Road 100 feet plus or minus to the southeast- erly boundary of land now or formerly of Volpe; thence turning and running northwesterly 112 feet more or less to the southwesterly corner of land of said Volpe; thence turning and running northerly by several lines along the westerly boundary of land of Volpe in a line parallel to and 100 feet from the westerly line of Highland Avenue 315 feet, 719.65 feet, 70.77 feet, 54.5 feet, 220.23 feet, and 25 feet to the point
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of beginning. Containing approximately 36 acres of land plus or minus.
The above described parcel of land is included and shown on a Plan of Hollingsworth Estate (South Braintree) by Ernest W. Branch, Civil Engineer, dated January 12, 1957 with additions made November 7, 1930 and December 9, 1930 by said Ernest W. Branch and filed in Norfolk Registry of Deeds, Dedham, Mass., December 31, 1930 as No. 904-1930 Book 113 and is a portion of land commonly known as the Braintree Golf Course property acquired by the Town of Braintree from Grayce Elwell Burnett, April 22, 1955, recorded April 27, 1955 Book 3361, Page 265, and filed with Norfolk District of Land Court as Document No. 171810 entered on Certificate No. 53381.
Said sale is authorized only upon payment to the Town, by the purchaser, of the sum of Forty-five thousand dollars ($45,000.), to- gether with a grant from the purchaser to the Town of an option to repurchase the said property, together with any property which may be sold under authority of a vote taken under Article 4 of this Town Meeting, for the sum of Twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) : the said Town to have the right to exercise said option for a period of one year thereafter if the purchaser has not within two years after the sale, erected on those or adjoining premises, a business and/or! manufacturing establishment at a cost of at least One Million Dollars.
The Moderator ordered a teller count. Vote and count were taken and the tellers reported 157 votes in the affirmative, 4 in the negative. The Moderator then declared the motion by Mr. Foster.
SO VOTED
ARTICLE 2. Appropriation for relocation of Municipal Golf Course.
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: That the Town appropriate and trans- fer from available funds in the Treasury the sum of Twenty thousand Dollars ($20,000.), to be expended under the direction of the Park Department, to reconstruct and relocate any portions of the Muni- cipal Golf Course land within the area to be sold to the Walworth Manufacturing Company, provided, however, that no portion of said appropriation shall be expended unless and until the Town has received from said Walworth Manufacturing Company the purchase price authorized under Article 1 of this Town Meeting.
ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will instruct its Representative to petition the Legislature for authority to sell the land referred to in Article 1.
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: That the Town authorize and direct Herbert B. Hollis, its representative to petition the Legislature for authority to sell the land referred to in Article 1.
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to sell to the Walworth Manufacturing Company all its right, title and interest to three parcels of land as follows :
Parcel No. 1-shown as Plot 11 on Assessors' Plan 1054 containing) 14.5 acres bounded southerly by land of the N.Y.N.H.&H.RR.Co., west- erly by the Cochato River; northerly by land of the Town of Braintree and easterly by land of Jennie Dyer Donald;
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Parcel No. 2-shown as Plot 9 on Assessors' Plan 1053 containing 1.92 acres being a triangular shaped parcel of land bounded easterly by the Old Colony Railroad right of way and Old Washington Street; westerly and northerly by Old Road;
Parcel No. 3-shown as Plot 9 on Assessors' Plan 1054 containing 0.59 acres bounded on the south by the New Haven Railroad property, on the west and north sides by Old Colony Railroad right of way and . easterly by Washington Street,
or take any other action relative thereto.
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: That the Town authorize the Select- men to sell at private sale to the Walworth Manufacturing Company, all its right, title and interest in the three (3) parcels of land described in this Article, for the sum of not less than Five thousand one hundred ($5,100.) Dollars. Upon motion duly made the following resolution was
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED
WHEREAS from the proceeds of a sale of land to Walworth Manufacturing Company the Town will receive a net sum of $25,000 which is in effect a refund of 1/3 of the original cost of the Golf Course and
WHEREAS the said sum being received for part of the Golf Course property, it might be urged that it be held as a reserve for appropriation to improve the Golf Course but
WHEREAS the Park Department and its appointed Golf Course Operating Committee recognize and yield to the need to use said sum currently to relieve the tax burden
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that it is the sense of this meeting that an amount not exceeding said $25,000 should be made available by appropriation in whole or in part for improvements at said Golf Course at such future time as the Park Department or its Golf Course Operating Committee shall develop and present a program. for such improvements or may require a portion of said sum to replace any prospective operating deficit during the necessary process of relocation.
ARTICLE 5. Amending of Zoning By-Laws and Zoning Map re- changing of a Residence B Zone to Industrial Zone.
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: That the Town vote to amend the Zoning By-Law and the Zoning Map dated May 2, 1940, as most pre- viously amended, by providing that the following described area be changed from Residence B Zone to Industrial Zone:
A parcel of land in the southwesterly section of Braintree containing approximately 83 acres beginning at the southeasterly corner of Plot 54 on Assessors' Plan 1048 and running in a northeasterly direction along the easterly boundary lines of Plots 54, 55, 56, 57 and 58 for a distance of approximately 266 feet; thence turning and running in a. straight line in a northwesterly direction from the northeasterly corner bound of Plot 58 Assessors' Plan 1048 to the westerly corner bound of a triangular parcel of land shown as Plot 68. Assessors' Plan 1048 for a distance of approximately 722 feet; thence turning and running in a westerly direction along the northerly boundary of Plot 73 Assess-
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ors' Plan 1048 for a distance of approximately 515 feet; thence turn- ing and running in a southerly direction along land now or formerly of Volpe for a distance of approximately 635 feet; thence turning and running in a southwesterly direction at a 103 degree angle 210 feet to a point; thence turning and running southwesterly at a 138 degree angle approximately 793 feet to a point; thence turning and running in a southerly direction 380 feet more or less to the north- westerly bound of a parcel of land of the Town of Braintree being Plot 13 Assessors' Plan 1054; thence turning and running westerly! along the northerly boundary of Plot 1 Assessors' Plan 1054 for a distance of approximately 615 feet to the northwest corner of said Plot 1 Assessors' Plan 1054; thence turning and running along the westerly bound of said Plot 1 Assessors' Plan 1054 for a distance of approximately 435 feet and continuing in the same direction 255 feet more or less to a point on the northerly boundary of land of Town of Braintree shown as Plot 11 Assessors' Plan 1054; thence turning and running westerly along the northerly boundary of said Plot 11 Assess ors' Plan 1054 for a distance of 570 teet more or less to the Cochato River; thence turning and running in a southerly direction along the thread of the Cochato River 1520 feet more or less; thence turning and running northeasterly along the northwesterly boundary line of the Old Colony Railroad right of way to Old Washington Street for a distance of approximately 3780 feet; thence turning and running along the westerly side of Old Washington Street to the intersection of Old Road for a distance of 333.20 feet; thence turning and running south- westerly along the southerly side of Old Road for a distance of 300 feet; thence crossing Old Road to southeasterly corner of Plot 10 Assessors'. Plan 1050 for a distance of 40 feet; thence running northerly: along westerly side of Plot 11 Assessors' Plan 1050 to Braxton Street and crossing Braxton Street to southwesterly corner of Plot 35 As- sessors' Plan 1048 for a distance of approximately 690 feet; thence turning and running easterly along northerly side of Braxton Street for a distance of approximately 340 feet to point of beginning.
The above described land is shown in detail on the following As- sessors' Plans :
Plan 1048-Plots Nos. 1 to 12 inclusive, 25 to 58 inclusive, parts of Plots 59, 60, 61 62 and 63 and all of Plot 73.
Plan 1050-Plots Nos. 1 to 10 inclusive.
Plan 1052-Part of Plot 1.
Plan 1053-Plots Nos. 9 and 11.
Plan 1054-Plots Nos. 1, 11, 11A, 12 and 13.
Plan 1055-Plot No. 144.
ARTICLE 6. Amending of Zoning By-Laws and Zoning Map re- changing .a Residence B Zone to Business Zone.
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: That the Town vote to amend the Zoning By-Law and the Zoning Map dated May 2, 1940, as most recently amended, by providing that the following described area be changed from a Residence B Zone to Business Zone:
A parcel of land containing approximately 10 acres located in the southeasterly section of the Town shown as Plot 4-B Assessors' Plan 1084, bounded on the southwesterly side by Grove Street; on the north- easterly side by land of the Old Colony Railroad; on the westerly side by Plot 7 Assessors' Plan 1084 and on the easterly side by Plot 3
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Assessors' Plan 1084 and readily identified as the land adjoining Tedeschi's Supermarket on the northerly side of said market.
ARTICLE 7. Amending of Zoning By-Laws, Paragraph 5, Lot Size.
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: That Article 7 of this meeting be re- ferred back to the Planning Board for further clarification and study.
ARTICLE 8. Reconveyance of land to Federated Department Stores.
UNANIMOUSLY VOTED: That, referring to the premises taken for the Town by the Board of Water Commissioners by order dated' October 18, 1956, filed with Norfolk Registry District of the Land- Court as Document No. 186311, and recorded with Norfolk Deeds in Book 3516, Page 289, the Selectmen are hereby authorized in the name and on behalf of the Town, and with the Town seal, to execute, acknowledge and deliver to Federated Department Stores, Inc., a Dela- ware corporation, a deed of that portion of said premises shown as Lots 196, 197, A and B on the plan entitled "Subdivision of Land in- Braintree, Mass." dated December, 1956, by A. A. Hamilton, Reg. Surveyor, which deed shall, among other things, (1) contain a restric- tion that said Lots 197 and B shall be used only for the construction, paving, maintenance, repair and use of the same for roads and park- ing of vehicles, and such other uses as may from time to time be approved by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health or any successor agency having jurisdiction over the Town's water supply, and. (2) grant to said Federated Department Stores, Inc., its successors: and assigns, the right and easement to construct, maintain, repair, replace, relocate and use for passage by vehicle and on foot. a road through and over such location on Lot 198 on said plan as shall not encroach upon the proposed well and well house of the Town thereon as shown on said plan, such deed to contain such other descriptions, terms and condition as said Selectmen shall deem necessary or advis- able as conclusively evidenced by their execution thereof; and that the minimum amount to be paid for such deed shall be a release by said Federated Department Stores, Inc. to the Town of any and all rights to damages which it may have on account of said order of taking with respect to the premises to be conveyed to it as aforesaid; and that the Selectmen are hereby authorized to take any further action deemed by them necessary or advisable to effect the conveyance hereby contem- plated, including the filing of any petition, on behalf of the Town, with the Land Court.
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