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MEDFIELD PLANNING BOARD
William F. Rogers, Jr., Chairman Charles C. Cain, Vice Chairman Ernest L. Spencer, Secretary Everett J. Wills Roger E. Hardy
A true copy attest:
CHARLES W. KEIRSTEAD, Town Clerk
Attorney General's Acceptance of the Foregoing By-Law:
Boston, Mass., July 10, 1962
The foregoing By-Law adopted under Article 43 is hereby ap- proved with the exception of the following references to "rock" in the Rules and Regulations which have been deleted and DISAPPROVED:
Page 1 .: Title, paragraph 1, 2, 3, paragraph 3 (1) and paragraph 1 of section I;
Page 2: carry-over paragraph of section I, and paragraph 1 of section II;
Page 3: Subsections (4) and (5) of section III, and paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4;
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Page 4: Paragraph 1.
EDWARD J. McCORMACK, JR.,
Attorney General
Article 44. Voted to instruct the Boston Edison Company to install street lights with shields on Fairview Road on alternate existing poles beginning with Pole No. 13579 and ending on Pole No. 11. Said expense to be taken from the Street Light appropriation voted under Article 3.
Article 45. Voted to accept Chapter 136, Section 4B of the Gen- eral Laws.
269 voted in favor of passage
150 voted against passage
Article 46. Voted against acceptance of a Plan #2 so-called for the purpose of securing a Master Plan and Report for the Town of Medfield.
53 voted in favor of acceptance
239 voted against acceptance
A Resolution was made to authorize the Moderator to appoint a five member Master Plan Committee, one member of which shall be from the Planning Board, for the purpose of procuring a preliminary plan survey, said committee to report back to the Town at a subsequent Town Meeting.
Article 47. Voted to authorize the Selectmen to petition the County Commissioners to relocate North Street between School Street and the Dover Town Line.
Article 48. Voted to authorize the Board of Assessors to use the sum of $50,000.00 from Free Cash in the Town Treasury for the reduc- tion of the 1962 tax rate.
Article 49. Voted to accept the following named sums as Per- petual Trust Funds for the care of lots in the Vine Lake Cemetery, the interest thereof or as may be necessary to be used for said care, viz:
John D. and Gertrude R. Reilly Lot $100.00
Joseph A. Roberts, III Lot 100.00
Joseph Lessard Lot 50.00
Voted that the meeting be dissolved. A true copy attest:
CHARLES W. KEIRSTEAD,
Town Clerk
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TOWN WARRANT COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Norfolk, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Medfield, in said County, greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth you are directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Medfield, qualified to vote in elec- tions and in town affairs, to meet at the Amos Clark Kingsbury School in said Medfield on Monday the 17th day of September A.D. 1962 at 7:30 P.M. then and there to act on the following articles.
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to accept a gift of two hundred dollars from Dr. Richard H. Wright and others, to be used in connection with the Town's public swimming facility, or do or act any- thing in relation thereto. (Park Commission)
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to transfer a sum of money from the Road Machinery Fund to the Highway Operating Account to defray the expense of the operation and maintenance of Highway Machinery.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $700 from Available Funds in the Town Treasury to defray expenses of the Town Dump for the remainder of the year.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to transfer to the Medfield Memorial Library the sum of $1,505.25 received from the Common- wealth of Massachusetts under the provisions of Chapter 760, Acts of 1960, an act providing State Aid for public libraries, which monies have been applied for by the Library in accordance with said act. (Trustees Public Library)
Article 5. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, borrow and/or transfer from available funds in the Treasury or unexpended balances, to defray the expenses of the School Department for the balance of the current year. (School Committee)
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote authorization for the School Committee to dispose of, by sale or other means certain publicly owned school equipment.
Article 7. To hear and act on the reports of any special committee appointment at any previous Special Town Meeting or Annual Town Meeting or appointed by the Moderator or Selectmen as authorized by the vote of the Town.
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Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of constructing, originally equipping and fur- nishing a new elementary school on land presently owned by the Town of Medfield and lying between North Street, Dale Street and Adams Avenue and to determine whether the funds shall be provided for by an appropriation from Available Funds in the Town Treasury and/or borrowing under the authority and provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and/or borrowing under the provisions and authority of Chapter 645 of the Acts of 1948 as amended, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (School Committee)
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a School Build- ing Committee and to authorize it to construct, furnish and equip a new elementary school on land presently owned by the Town of Medfield and lying between North Street, Dale Street and Adams Avenue; to enter into contracts for the same; to employ architects in connection therewith; to accept the building when completed and to treat with the Massachusetts Building Assistance Commission and any other appro- priate governmental agency, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (School Committee)
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of remodeling, reconstructing and making extraordinary repairs to the school building situated at the corner of Adams Avenue and Dale Street on land presently owned by the Town of Medfield, which said school building was formerly used as a high school building, and to determine whether the funds shall be provided for by an appropriation for Available Funds in the Town Treasury, and/or borrowing under the provisions and authority of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and/or borrowing under the provisions and author- ity of Chapter 275 of the Acts of 1948 as amended, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (School Committee)
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a School Building Committee and to authorize it to do certain remodeling, re- constructing and to make extraordinary repairs to the school building situated at the corner of Dale Street and Adams Avenue on land presently owned by the Town of Medfield, which said school building was formerly used as a high school; to enter into contracts for the same; to employ architects in connection therewith; to approve bills for pay- ment in connection therewith and to accept the work when completed, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (School Committee)
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate, transfer and/or borrow a sum of money under the authority and provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws for the purpose of purchasing addi- tional equipment for the school department.
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Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, borrow or transfer from available funds, a sum of money to be used for the preparation of planning and development studies, in conjunction with Federal funds, under the Housing Act, title VII, section 701, as amended, and to appoint a seven (7) member Master Plan Committee, consisting of the five member committee, plus one member, each, from the Finance Committee, and the School Building and Needs Committee, as appointed by the Moderator; said members to serve pending faithful performance of their duties, until death or resignation, or dismissal by act of Town Meeting; said committee to be authorized to perform all acts necessary for the procurement of said planning and development studies, including, but not limited to, the selection of consultants, and, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to enter into any or all contracts with the Department of Commerce of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts consultants, and/or the Federal government, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Medfield Town Master Plan Committee)
Article 14. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, borrow and/or transfer, for the purpose of having a Master Plan of the Town of Medfield prepared under the provisions of G.L. Ch. 41, Sec. 81D, as amended, such sums to be expended by the Planning Board as provided in G.L. Ch. 40, Sec. 5 (28), or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Planning Board)
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds and/or borrow a sum of money to be used for the purpose of extending the Town's water distribution system to serve properties on Granite Street, Medfield, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Petition of Bettie Lou Priest et al)
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to change the zoning from Single Residence to Business on a parcel of land in Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. Being the southwesterly portion of the land shown as Lot A on a plan entitled, "Plan of land in Medfield, Mass." drawn by Pilling Engineering Company, Inc., dated May 12, 1961, and bounded and described as follows:
Northeasterly by land being the northeasterly portion of Lot A presently zoned for Business now of the North Street Plaza Corporation, 151.18 feet more or less; southeasterly by land of William F. Nourse, 90 feet more or less; southwesterly by land of Theodore C. Baker, 131 feet more or less; thence continuing in the same direction by land now or formerly of the North Street Plaza Corporation, 98.5 feet more or less; northwesterly by land of Albert Walker and Mary Walker, 69 feet more or less and northeasterly by land of Philip Ehnes and Louise Ehnes, 79.97 feet more or less; northwesterly by land of Philip
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Ehnes and Louise Ehnes, 18.0 ft. more or less. Said area in- cludes 19260 square feet more or less. (Petition of North Street Plaza Corporation)
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By- Law and Zoning Map of the Town of Medfield by removing the premi- ses hereinafter described from the provisions of Section II, 'AA', 'A', and 'C' Residence District Uses and placing the same under the provi- sions of Section IV. Business District Uses: That certain parcel of land situated on the southerly side of Main Street in Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, and bounded and described as follows:
NORTHWESTERLY by Main Street about 498.00 feet;
NORTHEASTERLY by land owned by Hillcrest Development Corp. measuring about 500 feet;
SOUTHEASTERLY by land now owned by Vincent A. Palumbo et ux to be distant southerly from Main Street 500 feet and parallel therewith;
SOUTHWESTERLY by land now owned by Helen G. McCarthy measuring 500 feet.
or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Petition of Vincent Palumbo et al)
Article 18. To see if the Town of Medfield will vote to accept the provisions of Section 8 of Chapter 40A of the General Laws of Massa- chusetts, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Petition of Marion S. Reggio et al)
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the following By-Law, relating to the conduct of two meetings:
"No vote of the meeting shall be reconsidered except by a two- thirds vote. When a motion for reconsideration is decided, that decision shall not be reconsidered and no question shall be re- considered more than once." (Moderator and Town Counsel)
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the following By-Law, relating to the conduct of town meetings:
"No vote of the meeting shall be reconsidered after ten hours have elapsed from the time such vote was taken, except by a two-thirds vote. When a motion for reconsideration is decided, that decision shall not be reconsidered, and no question shall be reconsidered more than once." (Moderator and Town Counsel)
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to accept the following named sums as Perpetual Trust Funds for the care of lots in the Vine
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Lake Cemetery, the interest thereof or as may be necessary to be used for said care, viz:
William L. Callow Lot
$250.00
Hilda Copithorne Lot
50.00
Jane L. Germaine Lot
100.00
Elmer E. Matola Lot
200.00
Ruth Morrison Lot
100.00
Jerome Shiels Lot
250.00
Frank P. Smith Lot
100.00
Thomas G. Watson Lot
150.00
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting an attested copy thereof, in the usual place for posting warrants in said Medfield, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon, unto the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this 4th day of September A.D. Nineteen hundred sixty-two.
AUSTIN C. BUCHANAN, JOSEPH A. ROBERTS JOSEPH L. MARCIONETTE
Selectmen of Medfield
ALLAN A. KINGSBURY,
Constable of Medfield
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Norfolk, ss.
Medfield, Massachusetts September 4, 1962
By virtue of this warrant I have notified and warned the inhab- itants of the Town of Medfield, qualified to vote in elections to meet at the time and for the purpose named by posting attested copies of said warrant in not less than five public places in the town at least seven days before the time of holding the meeting.
ALLAN A. KINGSBURY, Constable of Medfield
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
September 17, 1962
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, the meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 7:55 P.M. The delay was necessitated by the fact that everyone entering the hall was checked off the voting list as being a registered voter. Interest in five important articles brought out nearly 800 voters thus making this one of the largest town meetings ever held in Medfield. After reading the warrant notice and the Constables' return the following action was taken on the articles:
Article 1. Voted that the Town accept the gift of $200.00 made by Dr. Richard H. Wright of Milton, Massachusetts in behalf of himself; his brother, the Most Reverend John H. Wright of Pittsburgh, Penn- sylvania; and the other children and grandchildren of the late John J. Wright who was born in Medfield on February 5, 1881, and that this gift be placed in a special account to be known as "The Special Park Commission Fund"; that the Town will express its gratitude to the Wright family for their generosity to the Town of Medfield by author- izing the Park Commission to transmit to Dr. Wright under seal of the Town a true copy of the article and the vote taken thereunder.
Article 2 .. Voted to transfer the sum of $288.00 from the Road Machinery Fund to the Highway Operating Account to defray the expense of the operation and maintenance of Highway Machinery.
Article 3. Voted to transfer the sum of $700.00 from Available Funds in the Town Treasury to the Town Dump Account to defray expenses of the Town Dump for the remainder of the year.
Article 4. Voted to transfer to the Medfield Memorial Library the sum of $1,505.25 received from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under the provisions of Chapter 760, Acts of 1960, an act providing State Aid for public libraries, which monies have been applied for by the Library in accordance with said act.
Article 5. Voted that the sum of $9,683.00 be appropriated to the School Department for the purpose of this article, and that to meet said appropriation the sum of $8,937.10 be transferred from the reserve for School Fire Loss Account and that the further sum of $745.90 be transferred from Available Funds in the Treasury, said sum of $9,683.00 having heretofore been advanced by the School Department out of its annual appropriation, for the benefit of the Town of Medfield, to pay the charges arising from the smoke and soot damage to Medfield Memorial School.
Article 6. Voted to authorize the School Committee to dispose of by sale or other means, the following publicly owned school equipment:
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1-10" Delta Circular Saw with 1 H.P. Motor
1-6" Delta Jointer with 1/2 H.P. Motor
2-Wood Lathes-36" bed with 1/2 H.P. Motor
1-Gas Soldering Furnace
1-Art Storage Cabinet Miscellaneous Hand Tools
4-Sinks and Steel Cabinets-single bowl
7-Wood Working Benches with vises
1-Shop Wash Sink with six pr. of faucets
4-Home Economic Work Tables-42" x 60"
1-2 Door Sideboard
1-Overhead door-4 sections with hardware
1-Griswold Baking Oven-electric, 230 V .- 6.2 Kilowatt
1-Electric Stove-3 Burner Universal-230 Volt
50-Electric Light Fixtures-24" chain-14" bulb.
Article 7. Voted to hear the reports of committees appointed at any previous Town Meetings with the suggestion that any report rela- tive to an article in this warrant be read at the time said article is acted upon.
Article 8. Voted that the sum of $515,000.00 be raised and appro- priated for the purpose of constructing, originally equipping and fur- nishing a New Elementary School on land presently owned by the Town of Medfield and lying between North Street, Dale Street and Adams Street, and that to meet said appropriation the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow the sum of $515,000.00 under the provisions and authority of Chapter 645 of the Acts of 1948, as amended, and to issue bonds or notes of the Town of Medfield therefor payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than twenty years from the date of issue of the first bond or note.
670 voted in favor 20 voted against
Article 9. Voted that the Permanent School Planning and Build- ing Committee authorized and appointed under Article 29 of the Annual Town Meeting of 1962 shall constitute and be the School Building Com- mittee and hereby are authorized in the name of the Town of Medfield, to construct, furnish and originally equip a New Elementary School on land presently owned by the Town of Medfield and lying between North Street, Dale Street and Adams Street; that they be authorized to enter into contracts for the same including final plans and drawings therefor; to approve bills for payment in connection therewith; to determine the location of the building on said land; to accept the building when completed and to transact all manner of business with
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the Massachusetts School Building Assistance Commission and any other appropriate governmental agency in connection with the project and to do or act any and all manner of business necessary or incidental to the foregoing purposes.
Article 10. Voted unanimously that the sum of $40,000.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of remodeling, reconstructing and making extraordinary repairs to the school building situated at the corner of Adams Street and Dale Street on land presently owned by the Town of Medfield, which said school building was formerly used as a High School Building and as hereafter to be used as an Elementary School Building, and that to meet said appropriation the sum of $10,000.00 be transferred from Available Funds in the Treasury and that the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow the sum of $30,000.00 under the provisions of. Chapter 275 of the Acts of 1948, as amended, and to issue bonds or notes of the Town of Medfield therefor payable in accordance with the pro- visions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than ten years from the date of issue of the first. bond or note.
Article 11. Voted that the Permanent School Planning and Build- ing Committee authorized and appointed under Article 29 of the Annual Town Meeting of 1962 shall constitute and be the School Building Committee for the purpose of remodeling, reconstructing and making extraordinary repairs to the school building situated at the corner of Adams Street and Dale Street on land presently owned by the Town of Medfield, so as to adapt the same for future use as an Elementary School; said committee is hereby authorized, in the name of the Town of Medfield to enter contracts for all of the foregoing purposes includ- ing final plans and drawings therefor; to approve bills for payment in connection therewith; to determine the scope and extent of the work to be done; to accept the work when completed; to transact all manner of business with the Massachusetts School Building Assistance Commis- sion and any other governmental agency in connection with the project and to do or act any and all manner of business necessary or incidental to the foregoing purposes.
Article 12. Voted that this article be dismissed wherein an amount of money for the purchase of additional school equipment was sought, also it was suggested that action on this matter be taken at the Annual Town Meeting in 1963.
Article 13. Voted that a Master Plan Committee consisting of three members at large plus one member each from the Finance Com- mittee and the School Building and Needs Committee be appointed by the Moderator. Said Committee is to work with the Planning Board in the making of a Master Plan of the Town.
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383 voted in favor 229 voted against
Article 14. Voted that the sum of $7,000.00 be appropriated to the Planning Board for the purpose of procuring a Master Plan of all of the Town of Medfield, and that sum of $7,000.00 be transferred from Free Cash in the Treasury; that the Planning Board be, and hereby is authorized, to execute all manner of contract with governmental agen- cies in connection with the procurement of such Master Plan.
Resolution:
The Town voted to give a rising vote of thanks to the Master Plan Committee appointed by the Moderator pursuant to a Resolution voted at the 1962 Annual Town Meeting, for their conscientious and extensive work in the interest of the Town. Said Committee was then dismissed by the Moderator.
Article 15. Voted unanimously to appropriate the sum of $77,054.00 for the purpose of extending the water main in Granite Street and High Street from its present terminus in High Street about 8976 feet, said water main to be 8" pipe, and that to meet said appro- priation the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be and here- by is authorized to borrow the sum of $77,054.00 and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor, under the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws so that the whole of said borrowing will be repaid in not more than five years from the date of issue of the first bond or note, said water extension to be under the provisions of the Water Better- ment Act.
Article 16. Voted to change the zoning from Single Residence to Business on a parcel of land in Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachu- setts, bounded and described as follows:
SOUTHERLY by land now or formerly of William F. Nourse; WESTERLY by a line 30 feet easterly and parallel to land now or formerly of Theodore C. Baker;
NORTHERLY by a line 120 feet northerly and parallel to land of William F. Nourse;
EASTERLY by other land purportedly owned by North Street Plaza Corp., all as shown on plan of land entitled "Plan of Land in Medfield, Mass., Pilling Engineering Co., Inc." dated May 12, 1961, and on file with the Planning Board.
490 voted in favor 156 voted against
Voted to suspend the By-Law relative to the closing of the meeting.
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Article 17. Voted not to amend the Zoning By-Law wherein a certain parcel of land owned by Vincent Palumbo on the southerly side of Main Street would have been changed from Residence District Uses to Business District Uses.
435 voted in favor 288 voted against
Note: In view of the fact that Mr. Palumbo questioned the accu- racy of the written ballot, said ballots are hereby impound- ed by the Town Clerk until such convenient time as a re- count in the presence of the interested parties may be held.
Note: Mr. Palumbo later dismissed his request for a recount. Voted that the article be dismissed.
Article 18. Voted to dismiss this article wherein acceptance of Section 8 of Chapter 40A of the General Laws was petitioned.
Article 19. Voted to dismiss this article wherein adoption of a By-Law relating to the conduct of Town Meetings was sought.
Article 20. Voted to adopt the following By-Law relating to the conduct of Town Meetings:
"No vote of the meeting shall be reconsidered after ten hours have elapsed from the time such vote was taken, except by a two-thirds vote. When a motion for reconsideration is decided, that decision shall not be reconsidered, and no question shall be reconsidered more than once."
Article 21. Voted to accept the following named sums as Perpetual Trust Funds for the care of lots in the Vine Lake Cemetery, the inter- est thereof or as may be necessary to be used for said care, viz:
William L. Callow Lot
$250.00
Hilda Copithorne Lot
50.00
Jane L. Germaine Lot
100.00
Elmer E. Matola Lot
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