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and there heard all persons present who desired to be heard, have laid out as a town way for the use of the Town running easterly from Main Street substantially in the location of the private way known as Hampshire Road. The boundaries and measurements of said way as so laid out are as follows :
The northerly or left side line of said Hampshire Road com- mences at a point on the easterly side line of Main Street having a radius of 1,240 feet a distance of 65.47 feet from the point of curvature on the easterly side of Main Street at station 124-15-58 as defined by the alteration of and layout as a State highway by the Department of Public Works, March 5, 1929. From thence the northerly or left side line runs by a curve in a southeasterly direction having a radius of thirty feet, a length of 36.67 feet to a point of tangent ;
Thence S. 72 degrees and 41' E. a distance of 152.19 feet to a point of curve ;
Thence with a curve to the right with a radius of 146.78 feet a length of 129.59 feet to a point of tangent ;
Thence S. 22 degrees and 06' E. a distance of 191.16 feet to a point of curve ;
Thence with a curve to the left with a radius of 564.34 feet a length of 160.90 feet to a point of compound curvature, said point being station 6-36-03, Hampshire Road and station 11-96-86, Law- rence Road. Courses as described above run through lands of Frank K. Black and Dora Black also Dana Barber.
The southerly or right side line of Hampshire Road commences at a point on the easterly side line of Main Street, said point being S. 5 degrees, 03' and 30" E. a distance of 28-65 feet from the point of curvature on the easterly side of Main Street at station 124-15-58 as defined by the alteration and layout as a State highway by the Department of Public Works, March 5, 1929.
From thence the said southerly or right side line runs by a curve in a northeasterly direction having a radius of 20.00 feet a length of 39.28 feet to a point of tangent ;
Thence S. 72 degrees and 41' E. a distance of 127.78 feet to a point of curve, running by lands of Florence E. Bulley and Frederick F. Dacey.
From thence the said southerly or right side line is parallel with and forty feet distant from the above described northerly or left side line and runs for the remainder of its length by lands of Frederick F. Dacey and Frank K. and Dora Black. For further identification of this description and location reference is hereby made to a plan and profile of Hampshire Road, Reading, Mass., surveyed by Davis and Abbott, Civil Engineers, dated, May, 1929 and by refer- ence made a part of this report.
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We determine that no damages will be sustained by any person or persons in their property by reason of the taking to be made for this improvement.
No betterments are to be assessed for this improvement.
This laying out so made by us we hereby report to the Town for acceptance and recommend that said way shall thereafter be known as a public town way and named Hampshire Road.
SAMUEL H. DAVIS
HAROLD W. PUTNAM MARTIN B. HARTSHORN
WILLIAM T. FAIRCLOUGH Board of Public Works February 28, 1930
On motion of Samuel H. Davis, it was voted to accept and adopt the recommendations of the Board of Public Works on the laying out of Hampshire Road.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to accept the report of the Board of Public Works upon the laying out as a public high- way of a private way heretofore known as Virginia Road, such high- way being laid out in accordance with plans duly approved by the Board of Survey and filed in the office of the Town Clerk in accord- ance with the statutory requirements and to see if the Town will accept the public highway laid out by the Board of Public Works, and heretofore known as Virginia Road, or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Public Works
Article 19. Laying out of Virginia Road.
The Board of Public Works of the Town of Reading having determined and adjudged that common cenvenience and necessity require that a town way be laid out as and in the location herein- after described, having complied with all requirements of law relating to notice to the owners of the land thereof, and of a hearing thereon, and having met at the time and place appointed for such hearing and then and there heard all persons who desired to be heard, have laid out as a town way for the use of the town running easterly from Indiana Avenue substantially in the location of the private way known as Virginia Road. The boundaries and measurements of said way as so laid out are as follows :
The northerly line of said Virginia Road commences at a stone bound at a point of curve on the easterly side line of said Indiana Avenue at a point in lot 38 as shown on a plan of lots in Reading Realty Trust, dated, June, 1928, and to be recorded in the Land Court;
From thence the said northerly line runs with a curve to the left on a radius of 20.00 feet a length of 29.32 feet to a point of tangent ;
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Thence S. 83 degrees, 49' and 20" E. a distance of 633.01 feet to a point in the stone wall by land of the estate of George R. D. Walker and at the end of this layout.
The southerly line of said Virginia Road is parallel with and forty feet distant from the above-described northerly line.
For further identification of this description and location, refer- ence is hereby made to a plan and profile of Virginia Road, Reading, Mass., surveyed by Davis and Abbott, Civil Engineers, dated, June, 1928, and by reference made a part of this report.
We determine that no damages will be sustained by any person or persons in their property by reason of the taking to be made for this improvement.
No betterments are to be assessed for this improvement.
This laying out so made by us, we hereby report to the Town for acceptance and recommend that said way shall thereafter be known as a public town way and named, Virginia Road.
SAMUEL H. DAVIS HAROLD W. PUTNAM
MARTIN B. HARTSHORN
WILLIAM T. FAIRCLOUGH Board of Public Works February 28, 1930
On motion of Samuel H. Davis, it was voted to accept and adopt the recommendations of the Board of Public Works on the layout of Virginia Road.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to accept the report of the Board of Public Works upon the laying out as a public highway of a private way heretofore known as Weston Road, such highway being laid out in accordance with plans duly approved by the Board of Survey and filed in the office of the Town Clerk in accordance with the statutory requirements and to see if the Town will accept the public highway laid out by the Board of Public Works, and heretofore known as Weston Road, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Board of Public Works
Article 20. Laying out of Weston Road.
The Board of Public Works of the Town of Reading having determined and adjudged that common convenience and necessity require that a Town way be laid out as and in the location herein- after described, having complied with all requirements of law relat- ing to notice to the owners of land thereof and of a hearing thereon, and having met at the time and place appointed for such hearing and then and there heard all persons present who desired to be heard, have laid out as a Town way for the use of the Town running easterly from Bancroft Avenue substantially in the location of the private
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way known as Weston Road. The boundaries and measurements of said way as so laid out are as follows :
The northerly line of said extension commences at a stone bound set on the easterly side line of a town way known as Bancroft Avenue the same being on a curved line of 728.62 feet radius in said easterly line, and runs N. 72 degrees, 59' and 10" E. a distance of 206.00 feet to another stone bound set at the northwesterly corner of said Weston Road, and a private way known as Edgewood Avenue, and at the end of this layout.
The northeasterly corner of said Weston Road and Bancroft Avenue is hereby rounded with a curve of 20.00 feet radius and length of 27.34 feet over land of Robert M. Brown, and the said northwesterly corner of Edgewood Avenue is hereby rounded with a curve of 20.00 feet radius and length of 29.93 feet over land of Harry D. Stokes.
The said northerly line as above described is parallel with and five tenths of a foot northerly of the northerly line of said plan of Weston Road as approved under date of April 13, 1928.
The southerly line of said extension is parallel with and forty feet distant from the above-described northerly line and commences at a stone bound set on the said easterly line of Bancroft Avenue, the same being on a curved line of 512.56 feet radius in said easterly line, and runs a distance of 193.57 feet to another stone bound set on the southwesterly corner of said Edgewood Avenue and Weston Road. The southeasterly corner of said Weston Road and Bancroft Avenue is hereby rounded with a curve of 20.00 feet radius and length of 32.89 feet, both over land of Nellie E. Collins.
For further identification of this description and location, refer- ence is hereby made to a plan and profile of Weston Road, Reading, Mass., surveyed by Davis and Abbott, Civil Engineers, dated, December, 1928, and by reference made a part of this report.
We determine that no damages will be sustained by any person or persons in their property by reason of the taking to be made for this improvement.
This laying out so made by us we hereby report to the Town for acceptance and recommend that said way shall thereafter be known as a public town way and named Weston Road.
SAMUEL H. DAVIS
HAROLD W. PUTNAM
MARTIN B. HARTSHORN WILLIAM T. FAIRCLOUGH Board of Public Works February 28, 1830
On motion of Samuel H. Davis, it was voted to accept and adopt
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the recommendations of the Board of Public Works on the layout of Weston Road.
Article 21. To see what sum the Town will raise and appropriate by borrowing or otherwise, for the purpose of providing funds for extensions and enlargements of the Municipal Light Plant, or what it will do in relation thereto. Municipal Light Board
Article 21. On motion of Henry R. Johnson, it was voted that there be raised and appropriated for the purpose of extending and enlarging the Municipal Light Plant the sum of $15,000.00, in addition to the amount which may be available in the Depreciation Fund, to be expended by the Municipal Light Board; and that the Treasurer be, and he hereby is authorized and directed with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow said sum of $15,000.00 and to issue therefor bönds or notes of the Town, such bonds or notes to be payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and all amendments thereof and additions thereto, so that the whole loan shall be payable in not more than ten years from the date of the first bond or note issued or at such earlier date as the said Treasurer and Selectmen may determine.
YES NO
127 None
and it was declared a two-thirds vote.
Article 22. To see what action the Town will take regarding the installation of additional street lights on the public streets during 1930. Municipal Light Board
Article 22. On motion of Henry R. Johnson, it was voted that the subject matter of Article 22 be referred to the Municipal Light Board with authority to install such additional street lights as in its judgment are necessary and to make such changes in existing lights as may be advisable, the cost of the same to be paid from the Depre- ciation Fund.
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to re-zone the area bounded as follows: Beginning at the intersection of Main Street and Percy Avenue, on the north by Percy Avenue extended to Summer Avenue, on the west by Summer Avenue, on the south by a portion of Summer Avenue to its intersection with Main Street, on the east by Main Street, so that the entire area described above shall be changed from a Multiple Residence District and a Business District to a Single Residence District, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Jesse S. Thorn and others
Article 23. On motion of Jesse S. Thorn, it was voted that the Zoning By-Laws of the Town be amended by re-zoning the area bounded as follows :
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Beginning at the intersection of Main Street and Percy Avenue, on the north by Percy Avenue extended to Summer Avenue, on the west by Summer Avenue, on the south by a portion of Summer Avenue to its intersection with Main Street, on the east by Main Street so that the entire area described above shall be changed from a multiple residence district and a business district to a single residence district.
YES NO
123 None
and it was declared a two-thirds vote.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to re-zone the area now included in a business district lying east of the portion of South Main Street between the southwest corner of land of Robert D. Lowell, 101 Main Street, on the North and the intersection of Summer Avenue and Main Street on the south so that the said area shall be changed from a business district to a single residence district, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Jesse S. Thorn and others
Article 24. On motion of Jesse S. Thorn, it was voted that the Zoning By-Laws of the Town be amended by re-zoning the area now included in a business district lying east of the portion of South Main Street between the southwest corner of land of Robert D. Lowell, 101 Main Street on the north and the intersection of Summer Avenue and Main Street on the south so that the said area shall be changed from a business district to a single residence district.
YES NO
129 None and it was declared a two-thirds vote.
Article 25. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of four hundred dollars ($400.00) for the cost of preparing and printing the revised building laws and regulations, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Special Committee on Building Laws
Article 25. On motion of Elias B. Currell, it was voted to raise and appropriate the sum of four hundred dollars for the cost of pre- paring and printing the revised building laws and regulations.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from the Cemetery Reserve Fund, received from the sale of lots and graves in Laurel Hill Cemetery, the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) for permanent development of Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Board of Cemetery Trustees
Article 26. On motion of Philip H. Tirrell, it was voted that the Town appropriate from the Cemetery Reserve Fund received from the sale of lots and graves in Laurel Hill Cemetery, the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars for permanent development of Laurel Hill Cemetery.
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Article 28. To see what sum the Town will raise and appropriate by borrowing or otherwise, for the purpose of the rearrangement and improvement of Reading Common and the improvement of traffic control, including such construction, reconstruction, extension and wide- ning of streets, laying and construction of pavements and sidewalks, and other construction and works as may be called for, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Planning Board
Article 28. On motion of Samuel H. Davis, it was voted to indefinitely postpone this article.
Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to establish a public domain to be held as a town forest and devoted to the culture of forest trees and to authorize the Board of Selectmen to take for that purpose by eminent domain a tract or tracts of land in the north- erly part of the town composed principally of certain parcels of land in Hundred Acre Meadow, so-called, a parcel in Great Island, so-called, and a parcel north of Grove Street, which said parcels have been taken by the Town for taxes in prior years and to see what sum, if any, the Town will raise and appropriate to pay the expense of such taking or takings, including examinations of title, surveys, damages and the like and for the maintenance and development of such town forest, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Committee on Re-forestation
Article 29. On motion of L. G. Bent, it was voted that the Town establish a public domain to be held as a town forest and devoted to the culture of forest trees and to authorize the Board of Selectmen to take for that purpose by eminent domain a tract or tracts of land in the northerly part of the Town composed principally of certain parcels of land in 100-Acre Meadow, so-called, described as follows :
One lot of 9 acres bounded as follows :
Northerly by the Ipswich River, easterly by land of Kernan and Ball, southerly by land of Theron Parker's heirs and Daniel Nichols' heirs, and westerly by the Ipswich River or however the same may be bounded or described ;
One lot of 5-3/4 acres bounded as follows :
Northerly by the Ipswich River; easterly by land of Daniel Nichols' heirs and Kernan and Ball; southerly by land formerly of Tibbetts; westerly by land formerly of John Burrill or howsoever the same may be bounded or described.
One lot of 17-3/4 acres north of Grove Street bounded as follows :
Northerly by land of Daniel Nichols' heirs, James A. Bancroft and Isaac Clark's heirs; easterly by M. E. Nichols' heirs; southerly by land formerly of Tibbetts; westerly by land of Kernan and Ball or however the same may be bounded or described.
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One lot of 50 acres in Great Island, so-called, bounded as follows :
Northerly by land formerly of Taylor, and land formerly of Batchelder and Daniel Nichols' heirs; easterly by land of J. Adams Emerson's heirs, Isaac Wyman, J. G. Hutchinson, Henry Cook and Town of Reading; southerly by land of Isaac Wyman, Solon Bancroft's heirs and Theron Parker's heirs; westerly by land formerly of Kernan and Ball and the Ipswich River or however the same may be bounded or described, which said parcels have been taken by the Town for taxes in prior years, and such other parcels of land adjacent to the above-described property as may be taken, and that the sum of $1,500.00 be raised and appropriated to pay the expense of such taking or takings including examination of titles, surveys, damages and the like and for the maintenance and development of such Town forest.
YES NO None 124
and it was declared a two-thirds vote.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the sale to the Old South Methodist Episcopal Church of Reading of approxi- mately 735 square feet of land adjoining the Church property on the Northerly side of Salem Street, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Miles C. Higgins and others
Article 30. On motion of Arthur H. Choate, it was voted that the Selectmen be and they hereby are authorized and instructed to sell to the Old South Methodist Episcopal Church on such terms and conditions as they may determine, a certain parcel of land on the Northerly side of Salem Street in the Town of Reading, bounded and described as follows :
Beginning at a stone bound at the point of intersection of the westerly line of Main Street and the northerly line of Salem Street, situated in the Town of Reading, Massachusetts, thence running westerly along the northerly line of Salem Street 105.1 feet by land of the Old South Methodist Episcopal Church to land of said Town of Reading; thence running southerly seven feet by land of Town of Reading and at right angles to the northerly line of Salem Street; thence running easterly by land of Town of Reading 103.37 feet and parallel to the northerly line of Salem Street; thence running north- erly along the westerly line of Main Street 7.21 feet to point of be- ginning, being land now owned by the Town of Reading and con- taining 729.6 square feet.
And that the Selectmen be and they are hereby authorized, em- powered and instructed to sign, seal, acknowledge and deliver a deed in the name and in behalf of the Town of Reading, conveying the said land to the Old South Methodist Episcopal Church of Reading.
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Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 337 of the Acts of 1921, an Act relative to the retirement and pensioning of members of Fire Departments in cities and towns, amending Chapter 32 of the General Laws so that retirement and pensioning of firemen in towns shall apply to call members of its Fire Department, or what it will do in relation thereto. O. O. Ordway and others
Article 31. On motion of Orville O. Ordway, it was voted that the Town accept Chapter 337 of the Acts of 1921, an Act relative to the retirement and pensioning of members of the Fire Departments in cities and towns, amending Chapter 32 of the General Laws, so that retirement and pensioning of firemen in towns shall apply to call members of its Fire Department.
YES 123 NO None
and it was declared a two-thirds vote.
Article 32. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of four hundred dollars ($400.00) for Child Welfare Work, to be expended under the direction of the Reading Visiting Nurse Associa- tion and the Board of Health, or what it will do in relation thereto,
Inez H. Damon and others
Article 32. On motion of Josephine L. Fowler, it was voted to raise and appropriate the sum of four hundred dollars for Child Welfare work to be expended under the direction of the Reading Visiting Nurse Association and the Board of Health.
Article 33. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars ($200.00) and authorize the Selectmen to appoint a director, the money to be expended by and the director to serve in cooperation with the Middlesex County Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture in the work of the Middlesex County Extension Service, under the provisions of Section 40 to 45, Chapter 128, General Laws. Rolland L. Perry and others
Article 33. On motion of Rolland L. Perry, it was voted that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars, and that the Selectmen appoint a director, the money to be expended by and the director to serve in cooperation with the Middlesex County Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture in the work of the Middlesex County Extension Service under the provisions of Section 40-45, Chapter 128, General Laws.
Article 2. On motion of Charles F. Trevor, it was voted to take Article 2 from the table.
Charles F. Trevor made a report on the collection of ashes and debris without recommendation.
On motion it was voted to refer the subject matter of the
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collection of ashes and debris to the Board of Selectmen for further investigation.
On motion of Amos McLean, Chairman of the Hospital Com- mittee, it was voted that the Committee report at the next Special Town Meeting.
Voted to lay Article 2 on the table.
Article 34. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and em- power Preston F. Nichols, Treasurer of the Town of Reading, to execute and deliver to Ruth B. Nelson and Dewey Nelson, as tenants by the entirety, a release of the interest which the Town of Reading now has in and to certain parcels of land situated on Main Street and Knollwood Road in said Reading and being lots numbered 57 to 63 both inclusive, and lots 68 to 75 both inclusive, as shown on Town Plan recorded in the office of the Assessors of the Town of Reading, Plan 53, and being the same premises described as lots 5 to 11 both inclusive and lots 20 to 27 both inclusive, as shown on a Plan of Knollwood, Reading, Massachusetts, by James A. Bancroft, dated October, 1920 and recorded with Middlesex South District Deeds, Plan Book 351, Plan 8, and being the same premises assessed on April 1, 1927, to Charles P. Stockwell and taken by the Town of Reading for nonpayment of taxes by deed dated November 9, 1928, and recorded with Middlesex South District Deeds, Book 5300, Page 370, upon the payment of the amount due the Town on said lots, including expenses, or what it will do in relation thereto. Dewey Nelson and others
Article 34. On motion of Dewey Nelson, it was voted to authorize and empower Preston F. Nichols, Treasurer of the Town of Reading, to execute and deliver to Ruth B. Nelson and Dewey Nelson as tenants by the entirety, a release of the interest which the Town of Reading now has in and to certain parcels of land situated on Main Street and Knollwood Road in said Reading and being lots 68 to 75, both inclusive, as shown on Town Plan recorded in the office of the Assessors of the Town of Reading, Plan 53, and being the same premises described as lots 5 to 11, both inclusive, as shown on a Plan of Knollwood Road, Reading, Mass., by James A. Bancroft, dated, October, 1920, and recorded with Middlesex South District Deeds, Book 351, Plan 8, and being the same premises assessed on April 1, 1927 to Charles P. Stockwell and taken by the Town of Reading for nonpayment of taxes by deed dated, November 9, 1928 and re- corded with Middlesex South District Deeds, Book 5300, Page 370, upon the payment of the amount due the Town on said lots including expenses.
YES NO
133 None
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Article 35. To see if the Town will provide for the appointment of a committee to report at any subsequent town meeting upon a suitable location and approximate costs of developing and equipping an athletic field in the Town of Reading, and to see how much money the Town will raise and appropriate for the use of such committee, or what it will do in relation thereto.
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