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Voted to adopt.
ART. 11-To see if the Town will vote the money arising from licens- ing dogs for the ensuing year to aid in support of the Public Li- brary.
Voted to adopt.
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ART. 12-To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the construction of a sidewalk on Main Street, said money to be spent in conjunction with the Dept. of Public Works, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 for this purpose.
ART. 13-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds the sum of $1,500 for the purchase of a portable pump for pumping out cellars and streets in emer- gencies, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $750 to be used with matching funds from Civil Defense.
ART. 14-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000 to be spent in conjunction with the Mass. Dept. of Public Works to develop the intersection, and install automatic traffic lights at the intersection of Shawsheen Street and Route 38, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted to raise and appropriate $3,000 for this purpose.
ART. 15-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500 for the extermination of Termites which have infested the Town Hall, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $500 for this purpose.
ART. 16-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300 for the purchase of 100 chairs for the Town Hall, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $300 for this purpose.
ART. 17-To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town By-Laws by changing the time of the Annual Town Meeting to 10:00 A. M. on the first Saturday in March.
Voted to adopt this article. This by-law was approved by the At- torney General on April 24, 1958.
ART. 18-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from E and D the sum of $5,000 for a survey by a recog- nized public water system engineer, for the purpose of locating new well fields and to make a report at the next annual town
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meeting. Said sum to be expended by the Water Commissioners.
Water Commissioners
Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000 under this article.
ART. 19-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $50,000 for the purpose of new installations of water ser- vices to dwellings or other buildings, and including sub-divisions, and provided that the cost of said installations has been first deposited with the Town Treasurer and applied to estimated re- ceipts and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money and in the event said entire sum is not re- quired for said installations any unexpended balance shall like- wise be credited to estimated receipts, or take any action in relation thereto.
Water Commissioners
Voted to raise and appropriate $50,000 for the purpose of this article with the "and including sub-divisions" deleted from the text of the article.
ART. 20-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2.000 for the relocation of water pipes in Trull Road, and to authorize the Water Dept. to do such work and expend such money.
Water Commissioners
Voted to adopt this article and raise and appropriate $2,000 for the same.
ART. 21-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1.000 for the removal of snow from fire hydrants, under the supervision of the Board of Water Commissioners, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Water Commissioners
Voted to raise and appropriate $300 under this article.
ART. 22-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000 or any other sum for the purpose of installing a public water main in Pine Street for a distance of approximately 1,000 ft. and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money or take any other action relative thereto. Water Commissioners
Voted to raise and appropriate $5,000 under this article.
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ART. 23-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $7,500 or any other sum, for the purpose of installing a public water main in Lowe Street for a distance of approximately 1,500 ft., and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money, or take any other action relative thereto. Water Commissioners Voted to indefinitely postpone.
ART. 24-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $731.25 or any other sum, for the purpose of installing a public water main in Kernwood Avenue for a distance of approxi- mately 225 ft., and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money, or take any other action relative thereto.
Water Commissioners
Voted to indefinitely postpone.
ART. 25-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $975 or any other sum, for the purpose of installing a public water main in Columbia Road for a distance of approxi- mately 300 ft., and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money, or take any other action relative thereto.
Water Commissioners
Voted to indefinitely postpone.
ART. 26-To see whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum not to exceed $45,000 for the purpose of extending and im- proving the water system of the Town by laying and relaying water mains of not less than six inches but less than sixteen inches in diameter, by the development of an additional well field, including wells, pipes and original pumping station equipment, and by the construction of small buildings for pumping stations, and to de- termine how any such sum shall be raised, whether by taxation, by transfer of available funds, by borrowing or otherwise, and if by borrowing to authorize the issuance of bonds and notes of the Town, and to authorize the Water Commissioners to do such work and expend such money, or take any action in relation thereto.
Water Commissioners
Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $30,000 for the purpose of this article.
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ART. 27-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,500 or any other sum for the purpose of installing a public water main in Whipple Road for a distance of approxi- mately 900 feet, and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money or take any other action relative thereto.
Water Commissioners
Voted to indefinitely postpone.
ART. 28-To see if the Town will vote to expend the sum of $5,600 from the Installation Account, for the purpose of installing ap- proximately 1,600 ft. of six inch water pipe in Trull Brook Lane, provided that cost of said water installation has been first deposited with the Town Treasurer and applied to estimated re- ceipts and to authorize the Water Commissioners to do such work and expend such money, or take any action in relation thereto.
Water Commissioners
Voted to expend the sum of $5,600 from the Installation Account for the purpose outlined in this article.
ART. 29-To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Water Commissioners to acquire by purchase or take by eminent domain in fee simple the two following tracts of land listed as Parcel 1 and Parcel 2 for a water reservoir and for additional space for an over flow from the present reservoir and the proposed new reservoir and for any purposes incidental thereto, in accord- ance with Chapter 40 Section 14 and Chapter 79 of the General Laws as amended and the Acts of 1951 Chapter 61, said two parcels of land being bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point at the easterly corner of the granted premises and at the southeasterly corner of the present reservoir land; thence running southerly 210 ft. more or less by land of the Alton Proper- ties, Inc., to a point at other land of said Alton Properties, Inc .: thence turning and running westerly and southwesterly 475 feet more or less by a proposed 50 foot strip of land belonging to said Alton Properties, Inc., to the Tewksbury water easement; thence turning and running northerly and north easterly 200 feet and 142.76 feet by said water easement to the southwesterly corner of the present reservoir land; thence turning and running easterly by said present reservoir land; 279.64 feet to the point of beginning; containing by estimation 104,239 square feet of land more or less, said land belonging to the Alton Properties, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and having a usual place of business in Reading, Massachusetts.
And to see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of
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one dollar for such taking or purchase or take any other action in relation thereto.
Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $1.00 for the taking by eminent domain. - Unanimous vote.
ART. 30-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds a sum of money for surveying, ap- praisals, engineering, and legal costs in connection with the pre- paration and construction of the new proposed reservoir and any duties necessary or proper in connection with the same or take any action in relation thereto.
Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $600 under this article - 192 in favor and 56 opposed.
ART. 31-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of excavating, constructing and building a new buried-concrete water reservoir adjacent to the present Water Department reservoir located on Ames Hill so called, and for originally equipping and completing such reservoir, determine whether the money shall be provided for by appropriation from available funds in the treasury including the Post-War Rehabilita- tion Fund and/or the Sale of Real Estate Fund, by taxation, or by borrowing under the authority of Chapter 44 of the General Laws as amended, or take any action in relation thereto.
Voted to transfer the sum of $86,000 from Excess and Deficiency Fund for purpose of this article. - This vote was by secret ballot.
ART. 32-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $975 or any other sum, for the purpose of installing a public water main in Pomfret Road for a distance of approximately 300 feet, and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money, or take any other action relative thereto.
Water Commissioners
Voted to indefinitely postpone.
ART. 33-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $350 or any other sum, for the purpose of installing a public water main in Wayside Road for a distance of approximately 100 feet, and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money, or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted to raise and appropriate $350 under this article.
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ART. 34-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,500 or any other sum, for the purpose of installing a public water main in Rogers St. for a distance of approximately 700 feet, and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money, or take any other action relative thereto. Water Commissioners
Voted to indefinitely postpone.
ART. 35-To see if the Town will vote to accept the following streets as laid out by the Road Commissioners with the boundaries and measurements as shown on a plan on file with the Town Clerk. Armistice Road
Birch Street (ext.) formerly Oak St. Boisvert Road
Laura Road
Madeline Road
March Road (formerly Lincoln Road)
Edgar Avenue Euclid Road
Memorial Drive
Jay Street
Sunset Road
Road Commissioners
Voted to accept.
ART. 36-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,500 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 $3,000 from the E. and D. account in anticipation of re-imbursement from the State and County for the work or take any other action relative thereto.
Road Commissioners
Voted to raise and appropriate $1,500 and transfer $3,000 from E. and D.
ART. 37-To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $22,275. from the E. and D. account in anticiaption of the re-imbursement from the State for Highway maintenance under Chapter 81 or take any other action relative thereto.
Road Commissioners
Voted to transfer the sum of $23,100 from E. and D. for this pur- pose.
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Independence Avenue
Cherry Road
ART. 38-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $6,250 or any other sum for the improvement of Shaw- sheen 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 sum of $18,750 from the E. and D. account in anticipation of re-imbursement from the State and County for the work, or take any other action relative thereto.
Road Commissioners
Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $6,250 and transfer the sum of $18,750 from E. and D. for this purpose.
ART. 39-To see if the Town will vote to continue the Highway Machinery Fund as established at the last Annual Town Meeting, and to appropriate an additional sum including the unexpended balance of the 1957 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.
Road Commissioners
Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,184.02 and transfer $1,665.58, the unexpended balance of the 1957 Highway Machinery Fund and the accredited amount of $8,150.40 to the Highway Ma- chinery Fund.
ART. 40-To see what sum of money the Town will vote to transfer from the Highway Machinery Fund for the purpose, repair and maintenance of Road Machinery equipment for 1958 or take any action relative thereto.
Road Commissioners
Voted to transfer the sum of $15,000 from the Highway Machinery Fund for this purpose.
ART. 41-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $400 for Poison Ivy Control or take any other action rela- tive thereto.
Tree Warden
Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $100 for this purpose.
ART. 42-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300 for Nursery Stock or take any other action relative thereto.
Tree Warden
Voted to indefinitely postpone.
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ART. 43-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000 for an Asphlund Chipper for the Tree Dept. or take any other action relative thereto.
Voted to indefinitely postpone.
ART. 44-To see if the Town will vote to accept the following articles to be used by the Fire Department: One E. and J. Resuscitator, one Portable Deluge Sun and three Life Jackets purchased by the Tewksbury Firefighters Association.
Tewksbury Firefighters Association
Voted to adopt this article.
ART. 45-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of a piece of fire apparatus or take any other action in relation thereto.
Fire Chief
Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $20,000 for the purpose of this article with only $10,000 to be used, if matching funds from Civil Defense are available at time of delivery of apparatus.
ART. 46-This Board voted unanimously to recommend the adoption of the following proposed amendment to the zoning by-laws.
To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Laws by striking out paragraph G of Section 13 and substituting the follow- ing:
Section 13, paragraph G: No corporation, person or persons, owners, lessees, or other person in control of a trailer, trailer coach, mobile home, or other closed vehicle furnished for housekeeping and designed to be pulled behind another vehicle shall cause the same to be placed upon any premises in any district within the Town except within a duly authorized Trailer Coach Park without prior approval of the Board of Appeals acting in accordance with Section 17 of the Zoning By-Laws and Chapter 40A, Section 15, and other lawful authority.
The Board of Appeals shall not act upon any application for a permit unless the Board of Health has submitted their approval of the proposed location to the Board of Appeals in writing.
Planning Board
Unanimously voted. Amendment approved by the Attorney General on April 18, 1958.
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ART. 47-To amend the Zoning By-Laws to change from general residence and farming that portion of the following described tract of land now zoned for general residence and farming to Heavy Industry, said tract of land being now owned by Edwin Osterman and described as follows:
Land situated in West Tewksbury and bounded by Whipple Road, French Street and North Billerica Road and consisting of the following parcels of land described by the following deeds:
FIRST: The land in said Tewksbury situated on the easterly side of North Billerica Road and the southeasterly side of French Street and thus bounded and described:
Beginning at the southwesterly corner of the granted premises on the easterly side of said North Billerica Road at land formerly of Aaron Osterman; thence running northerly along said North Billerica Road and northeasterly along said French Street by the stone wall, one thousand three (1003) feet to a stone wall at land now or formerly of M. N. Anderson and Sons; thence running southeasterly at an angle of 69° 30' along said last named land by the stone wall, eight hundred seventy-one (871) feet to a stone wall at said land formerly of Aaron Osterman; thence running westerly at an angle of 77° along said last named land by the stone wall, five hundred sixty-four (564) feet to the point of beginning. Containing seven and 5/10 (7.5) acres, more or less, and being shown on a plan of land entitled, "Plan of Land in Tewksbury, Mass. surveyed for Edwin W. Osterman," surveyed May 15, 1954 by L. S. Belanger, Land Surveyor, and recorded with said Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 86, Plan 194.
SECOND: The land in said Tewksbury situated on the easterly side of No. Billerica Road and thus bounded and des- cribed :
Beginning at the northwesterly corner of the granted premises on the easterly side of said North Billerica Road at land formerly of Aaron Osterman; thence running easterly at an angle of 104° 30' along said last named land and along land now or formerly of M. N. Anderson and Sons by the stone wall, nine hundred sixty-two 962) feet to other land formerly of Aaron Osterman; thence running southeasterly at an angle of 101° 30' along said last named land, eight hundred fifty (850) feet to a stone wall at land now or formerly of Melvin Rogers; thence running westerly at an angle of 84° 45' along said last named land by the stone wall, two hundred sixty-seven (267) feet; thence running northwesterly at an angle of 148° 15' along said land formerly of Aaron Osterman by the ditch, eleven hundred seventy-five (1175) feet to said No. Billerica Road; thence running northerly at an angle of 82° along said No. Billerica Road, four hunderd twelve (412) feet to the point of beginning.
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Containing seventeen and 4/10 (17.4) acres, more or less, and being shown on a plan of land entitled, "Plan of Land in Tewksbury, Mass. surveyed for Edwin W. Osterman," surveyed May 15, 1954 by L. S. Belanger, Land Surveyor, and recorded with Middlesex North District Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 86, Plan 193.
THIRD: The land in said Tewksbury situated on the south- easterly side of North Billerica Road and thus bounded and des- cribed :
Beginning at a stone bound at the southwesterly corner of the granted premises on the southeasterly side of said North Billerica Road at land now or formerly of Frank H. Felker and Albion L. Felker; thence running North 10° 35' East along said North Billerica Road, seventy-two and 46/100 (72.46) feet; thence running North 27° East along said North Billerica Road, two hundred nine and 55/100 (209.55) feet to the center of a ditch at land formerly of Aaron Osterman; thence running South 56° East along said last named land by the center of said ditch, eleven hundred seventy-six and 6/10 (1176.6) feet to a ditch at land now or formerly of David Rogers; thence running southwesterly along said last named land by the ditch; two hundred eight (208) feet to a point near a pond hole, so called; thence running North 61° 35' West along said Pond hole, ninety-six and 21/100 (96.21) feet; thence running South 18° 25' West along said pond hole to a stone bound at said land now or formerly of Frank H. Felker and Albion L. Felker; thence running North 57º 10' West along said last named land, nine hundred ninte-seven and 4/10 (997.4) feet to the point of beginning.
Containing six and 802/1000 (6.802) acres, more or less, and being shown on a plan of land entitled, "Plan of Land in Tewks- bury belonging to F. H. and A. L. Felker," surveyed May 1899 by O. M. Snell, C. E. and recorded in said Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 86, Plan 195.
FOURTH: The land in said Tewksbury bounded and des- cribed as follows:
Beginning at a stone bound at the southwesterly corner of the granted premises at the junction of land now or formerly of one Rogers and of Aaron Osterman; thence running easterly along said Rogers land, four hundred fifty (450) feet to a stone bound at other land of said Rogers; thence running northerly along said last named land to a stone bound; thence running westerly at a right angle along said last named land, four hundred fifty (450) feet to a stone bound at land formerly of Aaron Osterman; thence
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running southerly along said last named land to the point of be- ginning.
Containing five and one-quarter (5 1/4) acres, more or less, and being a part of what is known as the Porter Livingston Farm.
FIFTH: The land in said Tewksbury situated on the south- westerly side of Whipple Road and thus bounded and described:
Beginning at the southeasterly corner of the granted premises on the southwesterly side of said Whipple Road at land now or formerly of Anna F. Sperry; thence running westerly along said last named land by the wall and fence, about five hundred five (505) feet; thence continuing westerly along land formerly of Aaron Osterman by the wall, about four hundred fifty-two (452) feet to other land formerly of Aaron Osterman; thence running northerly along said last named land by the ditch, about two hundred fifty-seven (257) feet; thence running northerly along land now or formerly of Martin Anderson by the wall, about three hundred seven (307) feet to a Lot 1 on a plan of land here- inafter mentioned; thence running South 71 1/2° East along said Lot 1 by the wall, two hundred forty (240) feet; thence running North 34 1/2° East along said Lot 1 by the wall, three hundred twenty-two (322) feet to said Whipple Road; thence running southeasterly along said Whipple Road by the wall, about nine hundred eighty (980) feet to the point of beginning.
Containing eleven and 42/100 (11.42) acres, more or less, and being Lot 2 on a plan of land entitled, "Plan of Land in Tewksbury, Mass., belonging to William H. Livingston," surveyed May 1906 by Smith and Brooks, Civil Engineers and Surveyors, and recorded with said Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 23, Plan 20.
SIXTH: The land in said Tewksbury situated on the south- westerly side of Whipple Road and thus bounded and described:
Beginning at the northeasterly corner of the granted premises on the southwesterly side of said Whipple Road at a point distant two hundred fifty (250) feet northwesterly from the northeasterly corner of Lot 2 on a plan of land hereinafter mentioned; thence running westerly along land now or formerly of Delia N. Livingston to the corner of a stone wall at land now or formerly of Martin Anderson; thence running southerly along said last named land by the wall, two hundred eighty-five (285) feet to said Lot 2; thence running South 71 1/2° East along said Lot 2 by the wall, two hundred forty (240) feet; thence running North 34 1/2° East along said Lot 2 by the wall, three hundred twenty-two (322) feet to said Whipple Road; thence running northwesterly along said
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Whipple Road by the wall, two hundred fifty (250) feet to the point of beginning.
Containing three and one-half (3 1/2) acres, more or less, and being the southerly part of Lot 1 on a plan of land entitled, "Plan of Land in Tewksbury, Mass., belonging to William H. Livingston," surveyed May 1906 by Smith and Brooks, Civil Engineers and Surveyors, and recorded with said Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 23, Plan 20.
Planning Board
Voted to adopt. - Unanimous vote.
Amendment approved by Attorney General April 18, 1958.
ART. 48-To see what sum of money the Town will appropriate to provide for leasing and maintaining suitable quarters for the Veterans of Foreign Wars Tewksbury Post No. 8164, in accordance with Chapter 40, Section 9, as amended, General Laws of Mass. or take any other action relative thereto.
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