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(Inserted at the request of the Committee to study entrances at the Arlington Heights Reservoir Beach and Playground)
Article 37. To see if the Town will petition the General Court for authority to sell, convey or otherwise dispose of the parcel of land hereinafter described, which is now part of the public parks within the Town, to the Arlington Housing Authority for the use of the said Housing Authority to erect buildings for housing for aged citizens of Arlington; and will vote to authorize and direct the Board of Selectmen to sell, convey or otherwise dispose of said parcel to the Arlington Housing Authority for said use as above described; or take any action relating thereto.
Said parcel of land is bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point on northerly boundary of land belonging to the Boston & Maine Railroad at the intersection of land in Lexington and land of the Town of Arlington; thence easterly on said northerly side line of land belonging to the Boston & Maine Railroad a distance . of 400 feet more or less to an angle point; then northeasterly a dis-
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tance of 160 feet more or less to a point; thence northeasterly again a distance of 160 feet more or less to an angle point; thence north- westerly 50 feet more or less to a point; thence northwesterly 120 feet more or less to a point on the south bank of Mill Brook; thence north- westerly again 190 feet more or less to an angle point on the Lexing- ton line; thence southwesterly along said Lexington Town Line 620 feet to the point of beginning and containing about 155,100 square feet more or less as shown on plan of land on file with the office of the Town Engineer, Arlington, Mass., and entitled, "Study Plan - Reser- voir, Playground & Vicinity - Scale 1"=80' - January 1955 - James M. Keane, Town Engineer."
(Inserted at the request of the Arlington Housing Authority )
Article 38. To see if the Town will amend its zoning by-laws by altering the zoning map therein referred to so as to include in the Residence C District all or any part of the area now included in land owned by the Town of Arlington for park purposes and located be- tween Mill Brook, Boston & Maine Railroad and the Lexington Town Line, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point on northerly boundary of land belonging to the Boston & Maine Railroad at the intersection of land in Lexington and land of the Town of Arlington; thence easterly on said northerly side line of land belonging to the Boston & Maine Railroad a distance of 400 feet more or less to an angle point; then northeasterly a dis- tance of 160 feet more or less to a point; thence northeasterly again a distance of 160 feet more or less to an angle point; thence north- westerly 50 feet more or less to a point; thence northwesterly 120 feet more or less to a point on the south bank of Mill Brook; thence northwesterly again 190 feet more or less to an angle point on the Lexington Line; thence southwesterly along said Lexington Town Line 620 feet to the point of beginning and containing about 155,100 square feet more or less as shown on plan of land on file with the office of the Town Engineer, Arlington, Mass., and entitled, "Study Plan - Reservoir Playground & Vicinity - Scale 1"=80' - January 1955 - James M. Keane, Town Engineer."
(Inserted at the request of the Arlington Housing Authority )
Article 39. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the Extension of the Sewerage System; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
Article 40. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the Extension of Water Mains; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
Article 41. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the Extension of Storm Drains; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
Article 42. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for Improvement of Volume and Pressure - Water System; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
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Article 43. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the construction and installation of sidewalks and edgestones; deter- mine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
Article 44. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the reconstruction and maintenance of permanent sidewalks and re- setting of edgestones upon the public ways of the Town; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
Article 45. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the extension of a surface drain in Cemetery Street, Town-owned land, and Garden Street; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
Article 46. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for paving a portion of Town-owned land adjacent to the Old Town Hall for off-street parking purposes; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
Article 47. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the installation of pedestrian actuated traffic signals on Massachusetts Avenue at Appleton Street; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
Article 48. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the relocation, alteration and widening, construction of, specific re- pairs upon and improvement of all or any parts of Pleasant Street and Park Avenue, within the town as now existing or hereafter re- located, altered and widened, including land damages, if any, under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments or otherwise; said appropriation to be used with any sum or sums which may be allotted by the Commonwealth or County of Middlesex, or both, for such purpose or purposes; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action in any way relative to all or any of the foregoing.
Article 49. To see if the Town will accept the laying out of a Town way from Massachusetts Avenue to Hobbs Court, substantially in the location of the private way known as Quinn Road, as made and filed in the office of the Town Clerk by the Board of Selectmen under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments; es- ablish said way; make an appropriation for said laying out and the construction of said way; determine in what manner the money shall be raised; or take any action relating thereto.
Said way as so laid out is bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at point of intersection of the northeasterly side line of Massachusetts Avenue, and the northwesterly side line of Quinn Road, thence northeasterly on said northwesterly side line of Quinn Road, a distance of 306.23 feet to an angle point, thence southeasterly on the northeasterly side line of Quinn Road, a distance of 192.95 feet to an angle point, thence southeasterly on said northeasterly side line of Quinn Road, a distance of 104.51 feet to a point of curve, thence southeasterly, easterly and northeasterly on said northeasterly side
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line of Quinn Road, on a curve to the left with a radius of 20 feet, a distance of 28.53 feet to the point of intersection of said northeasterly side line of Quinn Road, and the northwesterly side line of Hobbs Court, thence southwesterly on said northwesterly side line of Hobbs Court, a distance of 65.68 feet to the point of intersection of said northwesterly side line of Hobbs Court, and the southwesterly side line of Quinn Road, thence northeasterly, northerly and northwesterly on said southwesterly side line of Quinn Road, on a curve to the left with a radius of 20 feet a distance of 34.29 feet to a point of tan- gency, thence northwesterly on said southwesterly side line of Quinn Road, a distance of 94.90 feet to an angle point, thence northwesterly on said southwesterly side line of Quinn Road, a distance of 156.40 feet to an angle point, thence southwesterly on the southeasterly side line of Quinn Road, a distance of 266.33 feet to a point of curve, thence southwesterly, southerly and southeasterly on said southeas- terly side line of Quinn Road, on a curve to the left with a radius of 20 feet a distance of 32.19 feet to the point of intersection of said southeasterly side line of Quinn Road, and the northeasterly side line of Massachusetts Avenue, thence northwesterly on said northeasterly side line of Massachusetts Avenue, a distance of 60.82 feet to the. point of beginning as shown on a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, Arlington, Mass., entitled "Board of Survey Plan & Profile of Quinn Road, Arlington, Mass., Scales Hor. 1"=40', Vert. 1"=6', De- cember, 1956, C. S. Prince, Eng., Arlington".
Article 50. To see if the Town will accept the laying out of a Town way from Washington Street to Gorham Street, substan -- tially in the location of the private way known as Crawford Street, as made and filed in the office of the Town Clerk by the Board of' Selectmen under the provisions of the law authorizing the assess- ment of betterments; establish said way; make an appropriation for said laying out and the construction of said way; determine in what manner the money shall be raised; or take any action relating thereto.
Said way as so laid out is bounded and described, as follows:
Beginning at the point of intersection of the westerly side ling. of Washington Street, and the southerly side line of Crawford Street, thence northerly, northwesterly and westerly on said south -- erly side line of Crawford Street, on a curve to the left with a radius of 15.10 feet a distance of 20.82 feet to a point of tangency, thence westerly on said southerly side line of Crawford Street, a distance of 305.99 feet to a point of curve, thence westerly and southwesterly on said southerly side line of Crawford Street, on a curve to the left with a radius of 39.57 feet a distance of 37.04 feet to the point of intersection of said southerly side line of Crawford Street, and the southeasterly side line of Gorham Street, thence northeasterly on said southeasterly side line of Gorham Street, a distance of 103.67 feet to the point of intersection of said southeasterly side line of Gorham Street, and the northerly side line of Crawford Street, thence southwesterly, southerly and southeasterly on said northerly side line of Crawford Street, on a curve to the left with a radius of 17.18 feet a distance of 37.89 feet to a point of tangency, thence southeasterly on said northerly side line of Crawford Street, a distance of 246.58 feet to a point. of curve, thence easterly and northeasterly on said northerly side line of Crawford Street, on a curve to the left with a radius of 15.28 feet a distance of 28.07 feet to the point of intersection of
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said northerly side line of Crawford Street, and the westerly side line of Washington Street, thence southerly on said westerly side line of Washington Street, on a curve to the right with a radius of 817.41 feet a distance of 74.50 feet to the point of beginning as shown on a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, Arlington, Mass., entitled "Plan and Profile of Crawford Street, Brattle Heights, Arlington, Horizontal Scale 40 ft. = 1 inch, Verticle Scale 6 ft. = 1 inch, May 1917, Ernest W. Branch, Civil Engineer, Boston, . Quincy."
Article 51. To see if the Town will accept tlie laying out of a Town way from Washington Street to Candia Street, substantially in the location of the private way known as Gorham Street, as made and filed in the office of the Town Clerk by the Board of Selectmen under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of better- ments; establish said way; make an appropriation for said laying out and the construction of said way; determine in what manner the money shall be raised; or take any action relating thereto.
Said way as so laid out is bounded and described, as follows:
Beginning at the point of intersection of the westerly side line of Washington Street, and the southerly side line of Gorham Street thence northwesterly and westerly on said southerly side line of Gorham Street, on a curve to the left with a radius of 15 feet a distance of 26.56 feet to a point of tangency, thence westerly on said southerly side line of Gorham Street, a distance of 75.0 feet to a point of curve, thence westerly and southwesterly on said southerly side line of Gorham Street, on a curve to the left with a radius of 81.15 feet a distance of 54.37 feet to a point of tangency, thence southwesterly on the southeasterly side line of Gorham Street, a distance of 401.57 feet to the point of intersection of said southeasterly side line of Gorham Street, and the northeasterly side line of Candia Street, thence northwesterly across said Gor- ham Street, a distance of 41 feet more or less to the point on the northwesterly side line of Gorham Street, at the division line be- tween lots 145 and lot 144, thence northeasterly on said north- westerly side line of Gorham Street, a distance of 391.84 feet to a point of curve, thence northeasterly and easterly on said north- westerly side line of Gorham Street, on a curve to the right with a radius of 121.15 feet a distance of 81.16 feet to a point of tan- gency, thence easterly on said northerly side line of Gorham Street, a distance of 75.0 feet to a point of curve, thence easterly and northeasterly on said northerly side line of Gorham Street, on a curve to the left with a radius of 15 feet a distance of 23.56 feet to the point of intersection of said northerly side line of Gorham Street, and the westerly side line of Washington Street thence southerly on said westerly side line of Washington Street, a dis- tance of 70.0 feet to the point of beginning as shown on a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, Arlington, Mass., entitled "Plan and Profile of Gorham Street, Brattle Heights, Arlington, Horizontal Scale 40 ft. to an inch, Vertical Scale 6 ft. to an inch, May, 1917, Ernest W. Branch, Civil Engineer, Boston, Quincy."
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Article 52. To see if the Town will accept the laying out of a Town way from Summer Street to Brattle Terrace, substantially in the location of the private way known as Washington Street, as made and filed in the office of the Town Clerk by the Board of Selectinen under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments; establish said way; make an appropriation for said laying out and the construction of said way; determine in what manner the money shall be raised; or take any action relat- ing thereto.
Said way as so laid out is bounded and described, as follows:
Beginning at the point of intersection of the southwesterly side line of Summer Street and the southeasterly side line of Wash- ington Street, thence northerly, westerly and southwesterly on said southeasterly side line of Washington Street on a curve to the left with a radius of 60.44 feet a distance of 124.09 feet to a point of tangency, thence southwesterly on said southeasterly side line of Washington Street a distance of 138.73 feet to the point of inter- section of said southeasterly side line of Washington Street and the extension of the southwesterly side line of Brattle Terrace, thence northwesterly across Washington Street a distance of 43.67 feet to a point on the northwesterly side line of Washington Street, thence northeasterly on said northwesterly side line of Washington Street a distance of 221.67 feet to a point of curve, thence north- erly and northwesterly on said northwesterly side line of Wash- ington Street on a curve to the left with a radius of 24.9 feet a distance of 28.86 feet to the point of intersection of said north- westerly side line of Washington Street and the southwesterly side line of Summer Street, thence southeasterly on said southwesterly side line of Summer Street on a curve to the right with a radius of 2366.55 feet a distance of 161.30 feet to the point of beginning as shown on a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, Arlington, Mass. entitled, "Plan of Washington Street Petitioned For By Jacob Binnig Showing Proposed Lines and Grades Made By C. H. Gannett, C. E. Scales Hor. 40' & 6' = 1" Sept. 9, 1907."
Article 53. To see if the Town will accept the laying out of a Town way from Washington Street to its end, substantially in the location of the private way known as Brattle Terrace, as made and filed in the office of the Town Clerk by the Board of Select- men under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments; establish said way; make an appropriation for said laying out and the construction of said way; determine in what manner the money shall be raised; or take any action relating thereto.
Said way as so laid out is bounded and described, as follows:
Beginning at the point of intersection of the southeasterly side line of Washington Street and the northeasterly side line of Brattle Terrace, thence southerly and southeasterly on said north- easterly side line of Brattle Terrace on a curve to the left with a radius of 50 feet a distance of 54.54 feet to a point of tangency, thence southeasterly on said northeasterly side line of Brattle- Terrace a distance of 325.75 feet to a point of curve, thence south- easterly on said northeasterly side line of Brattle Terrace on a curve to the left with a radius of 30 feet a distance of 17.55 feet to a point of reverse curve, thence southeasterly, southerly, easterly
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and northerly on a curve to the right connecting said northeasterly side line of Brattle Terrace with the southwesterly side line of Brattle Terrace with a radius of 30 feet a distance of 129.38 feet to a point of reverse curve, thence northerly and northwesterly on said southwesterly side line of Brattle Terrace on a curve to the left with a radius of 30 feet a distance of 17.55 feet to a point of tangency, thence northwesterly on said southwesterly side line of Brattle Terrace a distance of 302.31 feet to a point of curve thence northwesterly and westerly on said southwesterly side line of Brattle Terrace on a curve to the left with a radius of 20 feet a distance of 20.51 feet to the point of intersection of said south- westerly side line of Brattle Terrace and the southeasterly side line of Washington Street, thence northerly on said southeasterly side line of Washington Street a distance of 18.55 feet to an angle point, thence northeasterly on said southeasterly side line of Washington Street a distance of 75.44 feet to the point of beginning as shown on a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, Arlington, Mass. entitled, "Plan and Profile of Brattle Terrace, Arlington, Mass. Scales Hor. 1"=40' Ver. 1"=6' Aug. 28, 1928, Fred A. Joyce, Surveyor."
Article 54. To see if the Town will accept the laying out of a Town way from Lowell Street to its end, substantially in the loca- tion of the private way known as Nourse Street, as made and filed in the office of the Town Clerk by the Board of Selectmen under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments; establish said way; make an appropriation for said laying out and the construction of said way; determine in what manner the money shall be raised; or take any action relating thereto.
Said way as so laid out is bounded and described, as follows:
Beginning at the point of intersection of the southwesterly side line of Lowell Street, and the southeasterly side line of Nourse Street, thence southwesterly on said southeasterly side line of Nourse Street, a distance of 349.1 feet to the point of intersec- tion of said southeasterly side line of Nourse Street, and the northeas- terly side line of the Boston & Maine Railroad, thence northwesterly on said northeasterly side line of the Boston & Maine Railroad, a dis- tance of 41 feet more or less to the point of intersection of said north- easterly side line of the Boston & Maine Railroad, and the northwes- terly side line of Nourse Street, thence northeasterly on said north- westerly side line of Nourse Street, a distance of 364.6 feet to the point of intersection of said northwesterly side line of Nourse Street, and the southwesterly side line of Lowell Street, thence southeasterly on said southwesterly side line of Lowell Street, on a curve to the left with a radius of 500.0 feet a distance of 41 feet more or less to the point of beginning as shown on a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, Arlington, Mass., entitled "Plan and Profile of Nourse Street and Reservoir Road, Arlington Heights, Mass., Petitioned For By E. B. Nourse, Scale Hor. 1"=40', Ver. 1"=6', December 10, 1915, C. H. Gannett, C. E., 53 State Street, Boston, Mass."
Article 55. To see if the Town will accept the laying out of a Town way from Nourse Street to its end, substantially in the location of the private way known as Reservoir Road, as made and filed in the office of the Town Clerk by the Board of Selectmen under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of better-
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ments; establish said way; make an appropriation for said laying out and the construction of said way; determine in what manner the money shall be raised; or take any action relating thereto.
Said way as so laid out is bounded and described, as follows:
Beginning at the point of intersection of the northwesterly side line of Nourse Street, and the southwesterly side line of Reservoir Road, thence northwesterly on said southwesterly side line of Reservoir Road, a distance of 241.5 feet to a point, thence north- easterly across said Reservoir Road, a distance of 41 feet more or less to a point on the northeasterly side line of Reservoir Road, thence southeasterly on said northeasterly side line of Reservoir
Road, a distance of 232.2 feet to the point of intersection of said northeasterly side line of Reservoir Road, and the northwesterly side line of Nourse Street, thence southwesterly on said north- westerly side line of Nourse Street, a distance of 40.0 feet to the point of beginning as shown on a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, Arlington, Mass., entitled "Plan and Profile of Nourse Street and Reservoir Road, Arlington Heights, Mass., Peti- tioned For By E. B. Nourse, Scale Hor. 1"=40', Ver. 1"=6', Decem- ber 10, 1915, C. H. Gannett, C. E., 53 State Street, Boston, Mass."
Article 56. To see if the Town will accept the laying out of a Town way from Summer Street to Forest Street, substantially in the location of the private way known as Sunset Road, as made and filed in the office of the Town Clerk by the Board of Selectmen under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of better- inents; establish said way; make an appropriation for said laying out and the construction of said way; determine in what manner the money shall be raised or take any action relating thereto.
Said way as so laid out is bounded and described, as follows:
Beginning at the point of intersection of the northerly side line of Summer Street, and the northwesterly side line of Sunset Road, thence easterly and northeasterly on said northwesterly side line of Sunset Road, on a curve to the left with a radius of 18.94 feet a distance of 21.05 to the point of reverse curve, thence north- easterly on said northwesterly side line of Sunset Road, on a curve to the right with a radius of 250.99 feet a distance of 130.67 feet to a point of tangency, thence northeasterly on said northwesterly side line of Sunset Road, a distance of 224.28 feet to the point of intersection of said northwesterly side line of Sunset Road, and the westerly side line of Forest Street, thence southerly on said westerly side line of Forest Street, a distance of 40.0 feet to the point of intersection of said westerly side line of Forest Street, and the southeasterly side line of Sunset Road, thence southwesterly on said southeasterly side line of Sunset Road, a distance of 224.28 feet to a point of curve, thence southwesterly on said southeasterly side line of Sunset Road, on a curve to the left with a radius of 210.99 feet a distance of 86.26 feet to a point of compound curve, thence southwesterly, southerly and southeasterly on said south- easterly side line of Sunset Road, on a curve to the left with a radius of 8.65 feet a distance of 18.62 feet to the point of inter- section of said southeasterly side line of Sunset Road, and the northerly side line of Summer Street, thence northwesterly on said northerly side line of Summer Street, a distance of 70.0 feet more or less to the point of beginning as shown on a plan on file in the
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office of the Town Clerk, Arlington, Mass., entitled "Plan and Pro- file of Sunset Road, Arlington, Mass., Showing Proposed Lines and Grades, Petitioned For By Jennie M. Varney, Scale Hor. 1"=40', Ver. 1' = 6", July, 1915, C. H. Gannett, C. E., 53 State Street, Boston, Mass."
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