Town of Tewksbury annual report 1955-1960, Part 2

Author: Tewksbury (Mass.)
Publication date: 1955
Publisher: Tewksbury (Mass.)
Number of Pages: 1222

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FEBRUARY 21st - 8 P. M.

ART. 30. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to petition the General Court for legislation to enable the Town of Tewksbury to vote by ballot for the representative form of town government by limited town meeting. Said petition to contain the Act proposed by the Committee appointed under Article X of the Warrant for the 1954 Annual Town Meeting and which proposed act is included in the printed town report for the 1955 Annual Town Meeting or to take any other action relative thereto.

Voted: To defer action on this article to a Special Town Meet- ing with the provision that a public hearing shall be held prior to Special Town Meeting.

ART. 31. To see if the Town will vote to amend Sec. 3 of the Zoning By-laws to change from a General Residence and Farm- ing, Area, to a Light Industry Area, the remainder of tract of land owned by Ruby F. Brueneau on southwesterly side of Main St. between stations 200 and 204 of Massachusetts Highway Dept. plan dated August 11, 1904, and known as "Patten Lot" on plan on file with the Town Clerk and described as follows:

Beginning at the northerly corner of the premises on the southwesterly side of Main St. at the easterly corner of the land formerly of Thomas Morey, supposed to belong now or formerly to George and Agnes Green; thence southwesterly and southerly

by said last mentioned land, the line being marked in part by a fence and wall, to land formerly of John Chandler, now of owner unknown; thence southeasterly by said last mentioned land to a corner; formerly of Martha E. Bridges, supposed to belong now or formerly to Roscoe E. Millett; thence northeast- erly by said last mentioned land, by a fence, a ditch, and hedge, to said Main St .; thence northwesterly along said street to the point of beginning. Be said contents or any or all of said meas- urements more or less and however otherwise said premises may be measured, bounded or described.

Voted: To accept this article. A unanimous vote. Approved by Attorney General April 21, 1955.

ART. 32. To see if the Town will vote to amend Sec. 5 of the Zoning By-laws by deleting paragraph 2 which reads - "Semi detached and two family houses."

Voted: To amend Sec. 5 of the Zoning By-Laws by deleting paragraph 2 which reads "Semi detached and two family houses" and this shall pertain to all new construction. A unanimous vote. Approved by Attorney General April 21, 1955.

ART. 33. To see if the Town will vote to amend Zoning By-laws by adding paragraph (g) to Sec. 13, to read as follows:

Any corporation, person or persons, owner of a trailer, a closed vehicle furnished for housekeeping and designed to be pulled behind another vehicle, intending to keep trailer within the Town, shall within forty-eight hours, report same to Police Department and apply to the Board of Health for a permit. No permit for a longer period than thirty days shall be issued with- out approval of the Board of Health and in accordance with Sec. 17. Occupancy of any trailer is prohibited unless the vehicle is properly connected for running water and suitable sewage disposal.

Voted: Any corporation, person or persons, owner of a trailer, a closed vehicle furnished for housekeeping and designed to be pulled behind another vehicle, intending to keep trailer within the Town, shall within forty-eight hours after arrival obtain a permit from the police department. No permit shall be issued for a period longer than thirty days except in accordance with Sec. 17. Per- manent occupancy of any trailer is prohibited unless the vehicle is properly connected for running water and suitable sewage disposal. Permits shall be issued only in accordance with regulations estab- lished by the Board of Health. Any bus or other vehicle designed to operate under its own power but converted to housekeeping uses shall come within the meaning of this section. A unanimous vote.

Approved by Attorney General April 21, 1955.

ART. 34. To see if the Town will vote to amend Zoning By-laws by changing Sec. 10 to read as follows:

SECTION 10. RESIDENCE DISTRICTS

(a) In residence districts as provided in Sec. 4 and Sec. 5, land shall provide for each dwelling a minimum frontage of 200 feet and a minimum lot area of 30,000 square feet.

Voted: This article was defeated by a secret ballot vote.

ART. 35. To see if the Town will vote to amend Zoning by-laws by adding paragraph (d) to Sec. 9 to read as follows: In any Limited Business, Light Industry or Heavy Industry District, no automobile service station, garage, automobile sales agency or retail business establishment, catering principally to the auto- mobile trade, shall locate any stands or structures less than 50 feet from any established street line.

Voted: To accept this article. A unanimous vote. Approved by Attorney General April 21, 1955.

ART. 36. To see if the Town will vote to amend Zoning by-laws bv changing the first paragraph of Sec. 12 to read as follows: In all residence districts, on all streets 40 feet or less in width, there shall be provided for any building or structure, a set back not less than 45 feet from the center line of street or streets the lot is abutting. On streets over 40 feet in width, no set back shall be less than 25 feet from established street line. No build- ing or structure shall be erected, moved, altered, reconstructed or enlarged so that a reduction in this set back shall result. Projecting eaves and uncovered steps shall not be considered as coming within the meaning of this Secion.

Voted: To accept this article. A unanimous vote. Approved by Attorney General April 21, 1955.

ART. 37. To see what sum the Town will raise and appropriate to enable the Planning Board to engage professional engineering services when required, to check details of various sub-divisions, to determine if they meet with the Planning Board specifica- tions.

Voted: To raise and appropriate $2,000.00 for purpose out- lined in this article.

ART. 38. To see what sum the Town will raise and appropriate to pay for secretarial services for the Planning Board.

Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00 for secre- tarial services for the Planning Board.

ART. 39. To see if the Town will vote to continue the Highway Machinery Fund as established at the last Annual Meeting, and to appropriate an additional sum, including the unexpended balance of the 1954 Highway Machinery Account, to be added to the amount already accredited to this fund for Highway Machinery purposes, or take any other action relative thereto.

Voted: To continue the Highway Machinery Fund as estab- lished at the last annual Town Meeting, and to appropriate $4,100.00, including the unexpended balance of the 1954 Highway Machinery Account, to be added to the amount already accredited to this fund for Highway Machinery purposes.

ART. 40. To see if the Town will vote to accept the following streets as laid out by the Road Commissioners, with the bound- aries and measurements as shown on a plan on file with the Town Clerk.

Edith Drive

Wildwood Street RD

Sullivan Parkway

Tomahawk Drive

Chester Street

Chester Circle Rhoda Street Charlotte Road Cleghorn Lane Sixth Street Arkansas Road

Tanglewood Avenue

Patriot Road

Indian Hill Road

Revere Road Crest Road

Voted: To accept all Streets as written in Article 40 except Wildwood, which was accepted as Wildwood Road.

ART. 41. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to trans- fer from the Highway Machinery Fund for the purchase. re- pair maintenance of road machinery equipment for 1955 or take any other action relative thereto.

Voted: To transfer from the Highway Machinery Fund for the purchase, repair and maintenance of road machinery equipment for 1955 the sum of $9,617.99.

ART. 42. To see if the Town will authorize the transfer of $20,350.00 from E & D; said money to be used in conjunction with monies received from the State under Chapter 81 for Highway Maintenance.

Voted: To accept this article and transfer $20,350.00 from E & D, said money to be used in conjunction with the sum appro- priated by the Town for Highway Maintenance under Chapter 81.

ART. 43. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $6,000.00 or any other sum for the improvement of Shawsheen Street; said money to be used in conjunction with

any money which may be allotted by the State or County, or both, for the purpose, or take any other action relative thereto and will further vote to transfer the su mof $18,000.00 from the E & D account in anticipation of reimbursement from the State and County for the work or take any other action relative thereto.

Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $6,000.00 for the improvement of Shawsheen Street; said money to be used in con- junction with any money which may be allotted by the State or County, or both for the purpose, and will further vote to transfer the sum of $18,000.00 from the E & D account in anticipation of reimbursement from the State and County for the work.

ART. 44. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,200.00 for the maintenance of Chapter 90, Highways; said money to be used in conjunction with any money which may be allotted by the State or County, or both, for this purpose or take any other action relative thereto, and will further vote to transfer the sum of $2,400.00 from the E & D account in anticipation of reimbursement from the State and County for the work, or take any other action relative thereto.

Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,200.00 for the maintenance of Chapter 90, Highways; said money to be used in conjunction with any money which may be allotted by the State or County, or both, for this purpose and will further vote to transfer the sum of $2,400.00 from the E & D account in anticipation of reimbursement from the State and County for the work.

ART. 45. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,260.00 for a drain from Hillcrest Park through the Chandler St. culvert near Hillcrest Road through James Sheehan's land to the Brook from Round Pond to relieve the condition in Hillcrest Park area or take any action relative thereto.

Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $3,260.00 for a drain from Hillcrest Park through the Chandler Street culvert near Hillcrest Road through James Sheehan's land to the brook from Round Pond to relieve the condition in Hillcrest Park area, said drainage to be in accordance to agreement between James D. Sheehan and the petitioners.

Agreement - I agree to an easement through my land for the above mentioned article, providing said easement extends along Sheehan Street and Crescent Street, so called, as shown on my plan, dated September 14, 1953, of my premises at the intersection of Chandler and Helvetia Streets, or along any streets that may be designated by me on a subsequent plan approved by the Town of Tewksbury. James D. Sheehan.

ART. 46. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 297 of the Acts of 1954, entitled "An Act authorizing cities and towns to establish commissions to promote business and industry, and to appropriate money therefor," or take any action relative to the subject matter of this article.

Voted: To accept the provisions of Chapter 297 of the Acts of 1954, entitled "An Act authorizing cities and towns to establish commissions to promote business and industry and to appropriate money therefore." 172 in favor, 2 opposed.

ART. 47. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a business and industrial commission to promote business and industry, and determine whether the money shall be provided for by taxation or by appropriation from available funds in the treasury. Selectmen.

Voted: To accept this article and to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 for the purpose outlined in this article.

ART. 48. To see if the Town will vote to elect at this meeting a business and industrial commission consisting of fifteen mem- bers, three of whom shall be elected for one year, three for two years, three for three years, three for four years and three for five years and in succeeding years three members shall be elected each year for five years at the annual election of town officers.

Selectmen.

Voted: To elect the following members to a business and in- dustrial commission and in succeeding years three members shall be elected each year for five years at the annual election of town officers.

James J. Gaffney, Jr.

for 5 years

John J. Belton

for 5 years

John J. Cooney

for 5 years

Maurice Condrey

for 4 years

John K. Eaton

for 4 years

Ralph S. Battles

for 4 years

Edgar G. Hinton

for 3 years

Dana F. Perkins

for 3 years

Raymond A. Webb

for 3 years

Harold A. Vinecour

for 2 years

Edward B. Stevens

for 2 years

Joseph J. Killeen

for 2 years

Loyal Robinson

for 1 year

John A. Quinn, Jr.

for 1 year

George McDermott

for 1 year

ART. 49. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate

the sum of $5,000.00 or any other sum, to re-establish the side- walk along the easterly side of Chandler Street from Main Street to Helvetia Street; as voted at the annual town meeting in February 1952 and instruct the Road Commissioners to carry out this work without fail during the year 1955.

Edward J. Walsh.

Voted: To raise and appropriate $1,000.00 to re-establish the sidewalk along easterly side of Chandler Street from Main Street to Helvetia Street as voted at the annual town meeting in February 1952 and instruct the Road Commissioners to carry out this work without fail during the year 1955.

ART. 50. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $2,500.00 under the direction of a playground commission, to be appointed by the moderator, in accordance with Chapter 45, Section 14 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth, or take any other action relative thereto. James J. Gaffney, Jr.

Voted: To appropriate $2,500.00 under the direction of a play- ground commission, to be appointed by the moderator, in accord- ance with Chapter 45, Sec. 14 of the General Laws.

Playground commission appointed by the Moderator as follows: John P. Mahoney George A. Byam Edward M. Martin Anthony Obdens

Donald P. Mulligan

ART. 51. To see if the Town will vote to Accept Sec. 6F of Chap. 40 of the General Laws which in effect authorized the Town to make minor repairs on private ways opened to the public for six years or more. Selectmen.

Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.

ART. 52. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to sell at private sale to the Tewksbury Veterans Association for the sum of $1.00 and to execute a deed therefore to a parcel of land in Tewksbury on the westerly side of Whipple Road and the northerly side of Pine Street bounded and described thus: Beginning at the northwesterly corner of the intersection of Whipple Road and Pine Street; thence west- erly along Pine Street to land belonging to Eva R. Colby, Florence A. Colby and the estate of John A. Richardson, which last mentioned land is shown on plan entitled "Plan of Land belonging to J. O. Richardson Heirs, Tewksbury, Mass., May 28, 1932, Robert M. Jacobs, Surveyor, "thence northerly along said Colby-Richardson land nine hundred fifty-two 15/100 feet to an iron pipe at land conveyed to the Town of Tewksbury by deed of Edith A. Cole dated August 20, 1915, recorded in Mid-

dlesex North District Registry of Deeds book 543, page 244; thence easterly along said land of the Town of Tewksbury about 435 feet to said Whipple Road, thence southerly along said Whipple Road to the point of beginning. Said premises recorded in the Middlesex North District Registry of Deeds, Book 154, page 478. Bernard J. Dougherty

Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.

ART. 53. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of erecting and constructing an elementary school building on the southerly side of Shawsheen Street on a parcel of land containing 18.6 acres more or less as shown on a plan dated June 30, 1954, scale 1" - 100 feet, Dana F. Perkins & Sons, Inc., Civil Engineers and Surveyors, Reading, Massachusetts, which plan is recorded at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 84, Plan 89, and for originally equipping and furnishing the said school building; determine whether the money shall be provided for by appropriation from available funds in the treasury including the post-war rehabili- tation fund and/or the sale of real estate fund, by taxation, or by borrowing under the authority of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and Chapter 645 of the Acts of 1948, as amended by Chapter 528 of the Acts of 1950 and Chapter 447 of the Acts of 1951 and Chapter 329 of the Acts of 1954; or take any action in relation thereto.

Voted: That there be and hereby is appropriated the sum of Seven Hundred Eighty Thousand (780,000.00) Dollars for the purpose of constructing, originally equipping, and furnishing an elementary School Building in the Town of Tewksbury to be located on land formerly of Herbert L. Foster on the southerly side of Shawsheen Street, and as more fully described in the article of the warrant under which this vote is adopted.

That to meet the aforesaid appropriation there be and hereby is authorized the transfer of the balance of $19,420.71 from the post war rehabilitation fund and the balance of $5,125.00 in the fund accumulated by the sale of real estate and the balance of $9,769.71 in the Stabilization Fund, together with such interest as may accrue from January 1, 1955 to the date of the sale of any securities in which the above sums may be invested, together with the sum of $95,684.58, less accumulated interest on the Stabilization and Post War Rehabilitation Funds to be transferred from free cash, sufficient to bring the total transfer to One Hundred Thirty Thousand ($130,000.00) Dollars and that the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to borrow the sum of Six Hundred Fifty Thousand ($650,000.00) Dollars, by the issuance and sale of serial coupon bonds of the Town of Tewksbury, in the aggregate principal amount of Six Hundred Fifty Thousand

($650,000.00) Dollars, Five Hundred Thousand ($500,0000.00) Dol- lars of which to be issued under authority of Chapter 645 of the Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts of 1948, as amended, and One Hundred Fifty Thousand ($150,000.00) Dollars to be issued under authority of Massachusetts General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 44, Section 7, as amended. .. Said bonds shall be in such form, shall bear such date, shall mature at such times, provided that all of the bonds of each issue shall be paid in not more than twenty years from the date thereof, and shall bear such rates of interest as may be deter- mined, subject to the provisions of this vote and applicable provi- sions of law, by the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen. Said bonds shall be signed by the Town Treasurer and countersigned by at least a majority of the Selectmen, the coupons annexed thereto bearing the facsimile signature of the Town Treas- urer, and shall bear the Town Seal, and that such debt be raised and assessed as it becomes due without further vote of the Town. 240 in favor, 2 opposed.

ART. 54. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and empower, Loella F. Dewing, Joseph A. Aubut, John P. Murphy, Jr., John J. Cooney, William B. Carter, O. Rex Read, John F. Gleason, Everett H. King and William J. Houlihan to continue as the 1954 School Building Committee, to carry out the school con- struction program as voted under Articles 60 and 61 of the of the Annual Town Meeting of 1954 and to further author- ize said committee to supervise, execute, or perform any duties necessary or desirable to carry out the action voted by the town under the preceding article calling for the construction, equipping, and furnishing of a school building including the employment of professional services, technical advice, securing plans, specifications and bids for the erection of said school and to accept in the name of the town the lowest responsible bid submitted and to execute all legal documents and contracts, approve all expenditures and vouchers for services rendered or material supplied in connection with the same or take any action in relation thereto.

Voted: To accept this article.

ART. 55. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Article 60 of the 1954 Annual Town Meeting, providing for the employment of professional services necessary to pro- ceed with a school facilities construction program under direc- tion of said committee.

Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $15,000.00 for the purpose outlined in this article.

ART. 56. To see if the Town will appoint a committee or author-

ize any existing committee to investigate further school accomo- dations and particularly the practicability of acquiring the Bancroft building and the land thereon from the Common- wealth of Massachusetts for such purposes, such committee to consist of not less than five persons and to report their findings and recommendations to the town at a special meeting to be held within four months from the date of the annual meeting, or take any other action relative thereto, and to see if the town will raise and appropriate a sum of money to prepare prelimi nary drawings showing a proposed design of the Bancroft Building for school purposes or take any other action relative thereto.

Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.

ART. 57. To see if the Town will vote to accept Section 6B of Chapter 40 of the General Laws which reads: Section 6B-A city or town which accepts this section may appropriate money for the purchase of uniforms for members of its Police and Fire Departments, or do anything in relation thereto.

Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.

ART. 58. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $650.00 for uniforms for permanent members of the Police and Fire Departments under Chapter 40, Section 6B of the General Laws, or do anything in relation thereto.

Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.

ART. 59. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $550.00 to purchase a whirlwind power lawn mower to take care of the town cemeteries and commons or take any other action relative thereto.

Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $550.00 under this article.

ART. 60. To see if the Town will vote to change the fourth line of the second paragraph of Article 12 of the Town Building Law to read "upon undisturbed ground."

Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.

ART. 61. To see if the Town will vote to strike out paragraph 7 of Article 12 of the Town Building Laws, and instead insert the following paragraph, "All dwelling houses shall have cellars."

Voted: To strike out paragraph 7 of Article 12 of the Town Building Laws and instead insert the following paragraph, "All

dwelling houses shall have cellars." Approved by Attorney General April 13, 1955.

ART. 62. To see if the Town will add the following section un der the Town Building Laws, "Section 7A. All new materials, methods of construction, devices and equipment for use in buildings that are not covered by other provisions of the Build- ing Laws may be approved by the Building Inspector after re- ceiving approval of a committee of three members to be ap- pointed by the Board of Selectmen.

Voted: To indefinitely postpone this article.

ART. 63: To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Health to re-negotiate the contract for the collection of garbage and waste.

Voted: To accept this article.

ART. 64. To see what sum the Town will raise and appropriate to implement the previous article.

Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $4,000.00 to im- plement the previous article and refer to Chairman of the Board of Health.

ART. 65. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Select- men to appoint constables in lieu of the present system of electing them, said authority not be exercised until the ex- piration of the terms of those constables elected at the 1955 town elections.

Voted: To accept this article.

ART. 66. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,186.00 for the purpose of improving the street lighting in Tewksbury Center or take any other action relative thereto.

Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,186.00 to im- prove the street lighting in Tewksbury Center from Chandler's Corner to the Water Department building on Main Street.

ART. 67. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to provide for a parking area in front of the Highway Department Garage.

Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 to provide for a parking area in front of the Highway Department Garage, to be administered by the Highway Department.

ART. 68. To see if the Town will vote to install the following street lights, said installations to take place only after proper investigation by the Selectmen:

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Town of Tewksbury annual report 1955-1960, Part 2

Author: Tewksbury (Mass.) Publication date: 1955 Publisher: Tewksbury (Mass.) Number of Pages: 1222

Author: Tewksbury (Mass.)
Publication date: 1955
Publisher: Tewksbury (Mass.)
Number of Pages: 1222