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(Board of Assessors)
ARTICLE 49. To see what sum the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds for the use of the Board of Assessors in the purchase of a set of Assessors' Plans of the Town of Medfield, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
(Board of Assessors)
ARTICLE 50. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money for the purchase of a new brush chipper for the Tree and Insect Pest Control Departments or do or act anything in rela- tion thereto.
(Tree Warden)
ARTICLE 51. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate or transfer from Available Funds in the Town Treasury the sum of One Thousand, Sixteen Dollars and Twelve Cents ($1,016.12) for
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the following unpaid bill incurred in the year 1966.
Boston Edison Company (Removing and Reinstall- ing street lights in connection with Main Street reconstruction. )
(Board of Selectmen)
ARTICLE 52. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, borrow and/or transfer from available funds for the purpose of extending the water mains in School Street between the corner of North Street and Wight Street, or do or act anything in rela- tion thereto. (Petition)
ARTICLE 53. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, borrow, or transfer from available funds for the purchase and installation of water pipes in Wight Street for a distance of approximately 220 feet from the end of the existing water line in Wight Street to connect with the pipes to be installed under the preced- ing article, together with the necessary fittings and appurtenances there- to, and all under the provisions of the Water Betterment Act, so-called or take any other action relative thereto.
(Water and Sewerage Board)
ARTICLE 54. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, borrow, or transfer from available funds for the purchase and installation of water pipes in Green Street for approxi- mately five hundred and eighty (580) feet from the end of the existing water line to the intersection of Green Street and Cypress Street, to- gether with the necessary fittings and appurtenances thereto, and all under the provisions of the Water Betterment Act, so-called, or take any other action relative thereto.
(Water and Sewerage Board)
ARTICLE 55. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, borrow or transfer from available funds for the purchase and installation of water pipes in West Mill Street for approxi- mately 1,400 feet from the end of the present water line to the intersec- tion of West Mill Street and West Street and for approximately 800 feet westerly in West Street, together with the necessary fittings and appur- tenances thereto and all under the provisions of the Water Betterment Act, so-called, or take any other action relative thereto.
(Board of Selectmen and Water & Sewerage Board)
ARTICLE 56. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, borrow, or transfer from available funds for the purchase and installation of water pipes in Maplewood Drive for a dis- tance of approximately 80 feet, together with the necessary fittings and
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appurtenances thereto, and all under the provisions of the Water Bet- terment Act, so-called, or take any other action relative thereto.
(Water & Sewerage Board)
ARTICLE 57. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by purchase, taking by eminent domain or other- wise in behalf of the Town for water supply purposes, an easement for the installation and maintenance of water supply pipes on the south- westerly side of Philip Street running through lands now or formerly of Charles and Maurine G. Kenny as is shown on a plan entitled "Plan of Easement to be Acquired by the Town of Medfield, Mass." dated November 21, 1966 drawn by Cheney Engineering Co., Inc., Needham, Mass. Scale 1" = 20' on file with the Water and Sewerage Board, or take any other action in relation thereto.
(Water and Sewerage Board)
ARTICLE 58. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by purchase, taking by eminent domain or otherwise, in behalf of the Town for water supply purposes, an ease- ment for the installation and maintenance of water supply pipes in a strip of land 40 feet in width and running through lands now or for- merly of Charles and Maurine G. Kenny and land now or formerly of Roger E. Hardy, said strip running from Foundry Street to Nebo Street, all as is shown on a plan entitled "Plan of Easement to be acquired by the Town of Medfield, Mass." dated June 15, 1966, drawn by Cheney Engineering Co., Inc., Needham, Mass. Scale 1" = 20' on file with the Water and Sewerage Board, or take any other action relative thereto. (Water and Sewerage Board)
ARTICLE 59. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, borrow and/or transfer for the purchase and in- stallation of approximately 650 feet of water mains in Hartford Street, beginning at the terminus of the existing water main in said street and running in a generally Northeasterly direction, said purchase and in- stallation of said water mains to be under the provisions of the water betterment assessment law, so-called, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
(Petition)
ARTICLE 60. To see if the Town will vote to change the name of a portion of a certain public way known as Fairview Road northerly from Station 13 + 22 as shown on a Plan entitled, "Acceptance Plan of Fairview Road, Medfield, Mass." by Cheney Engineering Co. dated November 21, 1961 on file with the Board of Selectmen to Fieldstone Drive, or take any other action relative thereto.
(Board of Selectmen)
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ARTICLE 61. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate or transfer a sum of money for the purpose of providing recrea- tion for the physically and mentally handicapped, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
(Board of Selectmen)
ARTICLE 62. To see if the Town will vote to cover certain elect- ed or appointed officers under the Workmen's Compensation Act as pro- vided in Section 69 of Chapter 152 of the General Laws of Massachu- setts as amended by Chapter 401 of the Acts of 1966, or take any other action relative thereto.
(Board of Selectmen)
ARTICLE 63. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to transfer the care, custody, management and control of the North Street School Building, so-called, together with an area of land surrounding the same to the jurisdiction of the Park and Recrea- tion Commission for the purpose of a Community Recreation Center, or take any other action relative thereto.
(Park and Recreation Commission)
ARTICLE 64. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, borrow or transfer from available funds in the Treasury for the purpose of purchasing and installing a boiler and for renovating the heating, plumbing and wiring systems in the North Street School Building and other necessary alterations so as to make said build- ing suitable for use as a Community Recreation Center, or take any other action relative thereto.
(Park and Recreation Commission)
ARTICLE 65. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, borrow or transfer from available funds in the Treasury, to be made available to the Park and Recreation Commission to pay for utilities and other expenses incurred in operating the North Street School Building as a Community Recreation Center or take any other action relative thereto.
(Park and Recreation Commission)
ARTICLE 66. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, borrow or transfer from available funds in the Treasury for the purpose of improving the Bakers Pond area, or take any other action relative thereto.
(Park and Recreation Commission)
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ARTICLE 67. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, borrow or transfer from available funds in the Treasury for the purpose of installing certain capital improvements to the Town's swimming facility off Green Street, or take any other action relative thereto.
(Park and Recreation Commission)
ARTICLE 68. To see if the Town will authorize the Park and Recreation Commission to disburse from its annual appropriation mis- cellaneous sums of money for entry fees, the purchase of prizes, and awards, and the like in connection with the participation of groups sponsored by the Commission in meets, contests, and competitions both within and without the confines of the Town of Medfield, or take any action relative thereto.
(Park and Recreation Commission)
ARTICLE 69. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, borrow or transfer from available funds in the Treasury for the purpose of purchasing vacant land adjacent to the land presently owned by the Town of Medfield and used in conjunction with the Swimming Pond, or take any other action relative thereto.
(Park and Recreation Commission)
Article 70. To see if the Town will vote to revise the Zoning Map, Medfield, Mass. dated April 9, 1938 and revised December 31, 1965 so that:
the industrial area shown on said map lying north of Main Street and east and west of Brook Street and the industrial area shown on said map lying south of Main Street, east and west of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad at Park Street shall be designated as Industrial Intensive (I-I) and that;
the industrial area shown on said map lying north and south of West Mill Street and north of West Street shall be designated as Industrial Extensive (I-E).
and to see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law for the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts adopted April 21, 1938, as amended, by changing Section VIII Area Regulations (not ap- plicable to apartment house lots) as follows:
1. Rear Yards. Second sentence to now read: "In a business district no dwelling shall be built within twenty feet of a rear lot line."
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2. Side Yards. Third sentence to now read: "In any dis- trict except in an Industrial District no building shall be built within six feet of any lot line unless there is a party wall."
3. Front Yards. Second sentence to now read: "In a "B" residence district no buildings shall be built within twenty feet of the street line and no building of accessory use or farm or poultry farm building other than a dwelling or roadside stand shall be built within sixty feet of the street line, provided that no building need be set back more than twenty per cent of the depth of the lot nor more than the average of the setbacks of the build- ings on the lots next thereto on either side, a vacant lot or a lot occupied by a building set back more than twenty feet being counted as though occupied by a building set back twenty feet."
and by changing Section V Industrial District Uses to read as follows: Section V, Industrial Classes of Districts: Industrial Intensive (I-I) and Industrial Extensive (I-E).
1. General
(a) In an Industrial District no building or premises shall be erected, altered or used for dwelling purposes, or for any purpose injurious, noxious or offensive to a neighborhood by reason of the emission of odor, fumes, dust, smoke, vibration, noise or other cause.
(b) No vehicular access to an industrial district shall be over land that is not zoned industrial. Vehicular access to an industrial district shall be over a public way. New public ways will be constructed in accordance with the latest Rules and Regu- lations for the Subdivision of Land in the Town of Medfield, Mass.
. 2. Use Regulations
(a) No building, structure or land shall be used, in whole or in part for any purposes in an industrial district other than as set forth under Section V 2b, Permitted Uses.
(b) In the following Table of Use Regulations, Per- mitted Uses shall be designated by the word (Yes). Those uses that may be permitted by special permit in this district and in accordance with Section 9 shall be designated by the letters (SP). Uses designated by (No) shall not be permitted in the district.
(c) Table of Use Regulation that immediately follows is declared to be part of this By-Law.
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TABLE OF USE REGULATION Use I-I I-E
COMMUNITY FACILITIES
1. Church or other religious purpose
Yes
Yes
2. Educational purpose which is religious, sectarian denominational or public
Yes
Yes
3. Nonprofit recreational facility, not including a membership club
SP
SP
4. Nonprofit country, hunting, fishing, tennis or golf club
No
No
6. Licensed day nursery or other agency for the day care of children
No
No
7. Town building except equipment garage
SP
SP
8. Town cemetery, including any crematory therein
SP
SP
9. Historical association or society
No
No
10. Nonprofit hospital, sanitarium or sanitorium
No
No
11. Street, bridge, tunnel
Yes
Yes
12. Town equipment garage
Yes
Yes
13. Public utility, power plants, water filter plant, sewage treatment plant, and refuse facility
Yes
Yes
14. Temporary storage of materials or equipment structures
SP
SP
AGRICULTURAL
1. Agriculture, horticulture and floriculture except a greenhouse or stand for retail sale
2. Year-round greenhouse or stand for wholesale and retail sale of agricultural farm products
Yes
Yes
No
No
SP
SP
SP
SP
No
No
3. Temporary (not to exceed erection or use for a period exceeding 3 months in any one year) greenhouse or stand for retail sale of agricultural or farm products raised primarily on the same premises
4. Raising of livestock, horses and poultry, not including the raising of swine or fur animals for commercial use
5. Commercial stables, kennels, or veterinary hospital in which all animals, fowl or other forms of life are in completely enclosed pens or other structure at least 200 feet from any lot line
No
No
5. Nonprofit day camp or other nonprofit camp
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6. Growing of crops, grazing of animals and con- servation of water plants and wild life
Yes Yes
7. Noncommercial forestry and growing of all vegetation Yes
Yes
RETAIL AND SERVICE
1. Stores usually selling a combination of two or more of the following: Dry goods, apparel and accessories, furniture and home furnishings, small wares, hardware and food
No
No
2. Establishments primarily selling food and drink for home preparation and consumption or on their own premises
No
No
3. Sales by vending machines
No
No
4. Establishments selling new automobiles or new and used automobiles and trucks, new automobile tires and other accessories, aircraft, boats, motor- cycles, and household trailers
5. Hotels and motels
No
No
7. Personal service establishments
No
N
10. Membership club
Nc
No
11. Miscellaneous business offices and services
No
No
12. Home occupation
Nc
No
13. Automotive repair, automobile services and garages (not including a junk yard or graveyard)
SP
SP
14. Automotive or other junk yard or auto graveyard
No
No
15. Appliance and furniture repair service
SP
SP
16. Motion picture establishment
No
No
17. Amusement and recreation services
No
No
18. Taxi and bus terminal
No
No
19. Communications and television towers
SP
SP
20. Airport and landing strip
No
SP
21. Commercial parking lot or structure
SP
No
22. Planned business development
No
No
23. Filling of land or water course, water body or wet lands
24. Construction of drainage facilities or damming up or relocating any watercourse, water body or wet lands
SP
SP
SP
SP
6. Trailer camps
No
No
8. Funeral home or mortuary establishment
No
No
No
No
9. Convalescent or nursing home
No
No
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WHOLESALE AND MANUFACTURING
1. Mining and quarrying
No
No
2. Construction activities or suppliers
No
No
3. Manufacturing
a. Furniture, lumber and wood products
No
SP
b. Primary metal industries
No
SP
c. Fabricated metal industries
SP
SP
d. Machinery and electrical equipment
Yes
Yes
e. Motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment
SP
Yes
f. Transportation equipment
SP
Yes
g. Other durable goods
SP
SP
h. Food and kindred products
SP
SP
i. Textile and mill products
SP
SP
k. Printing, publishing and allied industries
SP
Yes
1. Chemicals and allied products
SP
SP
m. Other nondurable goods
SP
SP
4. Railroads and railway express service
Yes
Yes
5. Trucking service and warehousing
SP
Yes
6. Other transportation services (taxicabs)
Yes
Yes
7. Wholesale trade
Yes
Yes
3. Area, Height and Bulk Regulations
(a) The regulation for this district pertaining to mini- mum lot area, minimum lot width, minimum lot depth, maximum height of buildings, maximum number of stories, maximum floor area ratio, maximum usable open space, minimum front yard depth, minimum side yard width, minimum rear yard depth shall be as specified in this section and set forth in the following Table of Area Regulations and Height and Bulk Regulations, and sub- ject to the further provisions of this section.
TABLE OF AREA REGULATIONS
(Numbers refer to attached notes)
Dis-
trict
Use
I-I Any permitted struc- ture or principal use
12,000
100
100
Yards (2 thru 6)
Front (Ft.)
Side (Ft.)
15
12
Rear (Ft.) 12
Minimum Required Lots (1)
Area (Ft. 2) Width (Ft.) Depth (Ft.)
Dis- trict
Use
Minimum Required Lots (1) Area (Sq. Ft.) Width (Ft.) Depth (Ft).
SP
SP
j. Apparel and other fabricated textile products
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I-E Any permitted struc-
ture or permitted use 1 acre
200 200
Front (Ft.)
Yards (2 thru 6) Side (Ft.) Rear (Ft.)
25
25
25
NOTES:
1. Except for planned developments, community facilities and public utilities (see Section 9) only one principal structure shall be permitted on one lot. Principal structures, so limited shall be completed unobstructed in view from the street, except for vegetation and permitted accessory signs.
2. A corner lot shall have minimum street yards with depths which shall be the same as the required front yard depths for the adjoining lots.
3. At each end of a through lot, there shall be a setback depth required which is equal to the front yard depth required for the district in which each street frontage is located.
4. No building shall be within 10 feet of any water course or wet land area or, if subject to flooding, 10 feet from its flood line.
5. Projections into required yards, or other required open spaces are permitted subject to the following:
(a) Balcony or bay window limited in total length to one-half the length of the building, not more than two feet.
(b) Open terrace or steps or stoop under 4 feet in height up to one-half the required yard setback.
(c) Steps or stoop over 4 feet in height, window sill, belt course, chimney, roof eave, fire escape, fire tower, storm enclo- sure or similar architectural features, not more than 2 feet.
6. Screening and buffers shall be required in any Industrial District as follows: In an Industrial-Intensive (I-I) District, there shall be a landscaped buffer strip along each boundary which adjoins a residential district. This strip shall be at least 10 feet in width and shall contain a screen of plantings in the center of the strip not less than 5 feet in width and 6 feet in height at the time of occupancy of any lot. Individual bushes or trees shall be planted not more than 3 feet on centers, and shall
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thereafter be maintained by the owner or occupants so as to maintain a dense screen year-round. One hundred percent of the plantings shall consist of evergreens. No building shall be placed within this buffer strip.
In an Industrial-Extensive (I-E) District, there shall be a landscaped buffer strip along each boundary which adjoins a residential district. This strip shall be at least 150 feet in width, and shall be portioned as follows:
(a) The portion of such buffer strip within one hundred (100) feet of the district boundary line shall be used only for, and maintained as, a planting area for lawns, trees, shrubs, or other landscape materials to provide a park-like area of separa- tion between the districts.
(b) The remaining fifty (50) feet of space may be used for off-street parking or other permitted open uses, but shall not contain any permanent structure.
Table of Height and Bulk Regulations (Nos. refer to attached notes)
Dis-
Max. Hgt.
Permitted Fl. Area Ratio Min. Usable incl. Access. Bldgs. to Total Area of Lot
Green Space dential Net
% Fl. Area (Sq. Ft.)
I-I (See Appendix G,
0.75
10
Not permitted (
I-E (Bldg. Code. Town of
0.50
20
Not permitted
(Medfield, Mass.
Min. Resi-
trict
(ft.) 1, 2
Height (Stories)
NOTES:
1. Maximum height permitted in this By-Law shall be sub- ject to the restrictions of the Medfield Building Code and shall not apply to:
(a) Necessary appurtenant structures such as: church spire, belfry, cupola, dome, smokestack, monument, derrick, con- veyer, flagpole, radio or television tower, mast, antenna, aerial, airplane hangar, roof tank, building service equipment, roof structures other than a penthouse, chimney or parapet wall, or any similar appurtenance provided: any such structure shall set back from the vertical plane of the required set-back building line 1 foot horizontally for each 2 feet of extra height.
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(b) Special industrial structures such as : a cooling tower, grain elevator, sugar refinery, gas holder or other similar struc- ture where the industrial process requires a greater height, pro- vided: any such structure shall not occupy more than 15 percent of the lot area; and shall be not less than 50 feet from any lot line.
2. A fence, hedge, wall, or other enclosure may be main- tained on a corner lot provided: it shall not obstruct visual clear- ance at intersecting streets by being between 31/2 feet and 10 feet above the grade within the triangular area formed by the intersection of the curb lines and a straight line joining said curb lines at points which are 25 feet distance from the point of inter- section of said curb lines. Where curbs do not exist the lines shall be where such curb would be required if built.
4. Signs
(a) In an Industrial Intensive (I-I) district, the follow- ing exterior signs and no others are permitted:
(1) One sign for each fifty (50) feet, or fraction there- of, of lot frontage on the principal street, or for each separate and distinct establishment on the premises, provided that the aggregate area of all such signs shall not exceed one hundred (100) square feet for each said unit of frontage. In an Industrial Intensive (I-I) district no such signs shall be located nearer to the street line than the permitted setback distance for a building on the same lot.
(b) In an Industrial-Extensive (I-E) district the follow- ing exterior signs and no other are permitted:
(1) One sign for each one hundred (100) feet, or frac- tion thereof, of lot frontage on the principal street, provided that the aggregate area of all such signs shall not exceed one hundred square feet for each unit of frontage. No such sign shall be located nearer to the street line than the permitted setback distance for a building on the same lot.
(c) In both the Industrial Intensive (I-I) and the In- dustrial Extensive (I-E), no exterior sign shall have a height greater than the highest point on the roof of the main building to which it pertains, or greater than twenty-five (25) feet above the mean grade of the curb of the principal frontage street, whichever is highest.
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(d) In both the Industrial Intensive (I-I) and the In- dustrial Extensive (I-E), no exterior sign, and no interior sign readily visible from the exterior of a building, shall be illu- minated by other than a steady light (with no flashing or other interruption). No exterior sign shall be rotated, oscillated, or otherwise regularly moved, or shall be designed to turn or flutter in the wind, or shall in any way be other than stationary.
(e) For the purpose of this Section, an exterior sign is any structure or part thereof located outside of a building, or any device attached to or printed or represented on the exterior of a building or structure (including, but not limited to display signs) which shall display or include any letter, word, model, banner, flag, pennant, insignia, device or other representation used as, or which is in the nature of, an announcement, direction or advertisement. Where a sign consists of individual letters, insignia or other individual representations, the area of the sign shall be considered to be that of the smallest rectangle which encompasses all of said letters, insignia or other representations.
(f) Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, exterior signs which indicate necessary directions only (such as "entrance," "exit," or "parking") or are required for safety purposes, shall be exempt from the provisions of this Section, provided that each such sign has an area of not over two (2) square feet and is unlighted, or illuminated only by steady white light. Posters (including price tags) which are attached to merchandise law- fully displayed shall also be exempt, provided that each such poster has an area of not over one (1) square foot.
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