Town of Westford annual report 1956-1962, Part 28

Author: Westford (Mass.)
Publication date: 1956
Publisher: Westford (Mass.)
Number of Pages: 1048

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i. The owner of the lot for which a site plan approval is desired shall submit such site plan to the Planning Board in accordance with procedure prescribed by the Board and no building permit shall be issued for any existing or proposed building or structure on such lot until a site plan showing such building or structure has been approved by said Board and then only if such building or structure conforms to such site plan as approved.

ii. 'The site plan shall present a unified and organized arrangement of buildings, struc- tures and service facilities and shall show, among other features, the ground area and location of all existing and proposed buildings, structures, parking areas, load- ing and unloading spaces, driveways, drive- way openings, and other uses; all facili- ties for water service, sewage refuse, and other waste disposal services, outdoor lighting and water drainage and all princi- pal landscape features such as fences, walls walks and planting areas, including screen- ing of such lot as reasonably necessary from any residential district on which such lot abuts. In granting approval of a site plan, the Planning Board may determine the extent to which there shall be access to such lot from an abutting street.

iii. Before approving any application for a site plan approval, the Board shall assure to a degree consistent with a reasonable use of such lot for the purpose permitted by this zoning by-law:

1. Protection of other premises in the neighborhood against detrimental or offensive uses on such lot.

2. Convenience and safety of vehicular and pedestrian movement on such lot and in the streets, ways, and land in the neighborhood of such lot.

3. Adequacy of the facilities for sewage, refuse and other waste disposal and for water drainage.

iv. The site plan may be submitted to the Plan- ning Board in stages or as a complete plan and in either case the Board in acting on a site plan may approve it in whole or in part. Whenever successive site plans are submitted, any feature approved by the Board on a prior plan shall be deemed to be approved if shown materially unchanged on a subsequent plan unless the Board deter- mines that new or changed features on the subsequent site plan materially affect the feature that otherwise would be deemed to be approved.

v. In approving a site plan, the Planning Board shall have the power to authorize such deviation from the site plan as ap- proved as the Planning Board specified in its approval indorsements. The Board shall have the power to modify its approval of a site plan on application of anyone having a property interest in such lot or upon its own motion if such power is reserved by the Board in its approval indorsement. All provisions applicable to an approval of a site plan shall, where pertinent, be ap- plicable to a modification or amendment of an approval.

(2) Amend Article XII, Section 7, so that in Paragraph 2 insert after the words Industrial District, the letter "A", so that Article XII, Section 7, Paragraph 2 reads as follows:

"Front Yards: In a Residence A or B District, no building or roadside stand shall be erected or placed within twenty-five feet of a street line. In a Business or Industrial District "A" no building shall be erected within thirty-five feet of the line of a street. In any district there shall be in front of every dwelling on a lot not abutting on a street, a yard not less than thirty feet deep."

(3) Amend Article XII, Section 7, Paragraph 3, so that after the words Industrial District, insert the letter "A" so that Article XII, Section 7, Paragraph 3, reads as follows:

"Side and Rear Yards: In a Residence A or B District, no build- ing except a one-story accessory building shall be built within fifteen

feet of a side lot line or within thirty feet of a rear lot line, or within twenty feet of another building on the same lot; and no one- story accessory building shall be built within ten feet of a lot line in any case, provided that in a Residence B District a building acces- sory or otherwise may be built up to ten feet from any side lot line on any parcel of land individually owned which is shown on a plan re- corded in the Middlesex Registry of Deeds, North District, on or be- fore March 12, 1955 and which contains no more than 10,000 sq. ft. in area and less than one hundred feet frontage.

"In a Business or Industrial District "A", no building shall be erected within 15 feet of a side lot line or within 30 feet of a rear lot line or within 20 feet of another building."

(4) Amend Article XII, Section 7, Paragraph 7, so that Paragraph 7 is deleted and a new Paragraph 7 is inserted as follows:

"In a business or Industrial A or B District, no building shall be allowed or used for residence purposes except with the approval of the Board of Appeal after public hearing and if after public hearing such approval is given, then any building allowed or used for resi- dence purposes and their premises shall conform to the lot size, frontage, yard, and other regulations of this Section applicable to the Resident A District."

(5) Amend the Zoning By-Law Map so that the following areas are zoned Industrial A:

A. "Southerly by Bridge Street; Northerly by land of the Stony Brook Railroad; Easterly by Graniteville Road and Westerly by Pine Ridge Road.

B. "Northwesterly by Main Street; Northeasterly by River Street; Southeasterly by Fourth Street; and Southwesterly by Broadway.

C. "Beginning at a point at which Snake Brook crosses West

Street; thence turning and running on a line perpendicular to West Street in a Northerly direction, two hundred (200) feet; thence turn- ing and running Southeasterly on a line two hundred (200) feet distant from and parallel to West Street to a point three hundred (300) feet Northwesterly of Hillside Avenue; thence turning on a line three hundred (300) feet distant from and parallel to Hillside Avenue then Northerly, Easterly and Southeasterly to a point distant five hundred (500) feet Northeasterly from Main Street; thence turning and running on a line five hundred (500) feet distant from and parallel to Main Street and North Street to a point two hundred (200) feet from Groton Road; thence turning and running Westerly on a line two hundred (200) feet distant from and parallel to Groton Road to Snake Brook; thence turning and running Southerly along Snake Brook to the point of begin- ning.

D. "Beginning at a point on the Chelmsford and Westford Town Line at which Groton Road crosses; thence turning and running South- westerly on Groton Road to a point twelve hundred and fifty (1250) feet distant Westerly from the intersection of Oak Hill Road and

Groton Road; thence turning and running Northerly on a line perpendic- ular to Groton Road, two hundred (200) feet to a point; thence turning and running Westerly on a line two hundred (200) feet distant from and parallel to Groton Road to a point two hundred (200) feet Northeaster- ly from Forrest Road; thence turning and running Northwesterly and then Northeasterly on a line two hundred (200) feet distant from and parallel to Forrest and Tyngsboro Roads to the Tyngsboro Line; thence turning and running Northeasterly along the Tyngsboro-Westford Town Line to a point two hundred (200) feet Westerly from Makepeace Road; thence turning and running Southeasterly on a line two hundred (200) feet distant from and parallel to said Makepeace Road to the Westford- Chelmsford Town Line; thence turning and running along the Westford- Chelmsford Town Line to the point of beginning.

E. "Begining at a point at which Groton Road crosses the Chelmsford line thence turning and ruming Westerly on Groton Road to the boundary line dividing land now or formerly of R. Foss and H. E. Fletcher Company; thence turning and running Southerly by said bound- ary line to the Southeast corner of said land now or formerly of Foss; thence turning and running Westerly by said Foss land to the Southwest corner of the said Foss land; thence turning and running Southerly by the Westerly boundary line of land now of H. E. Fletcher Company to the Forest Road; thence turning and running Easterly by said Forest Road to the Oak Hill Road; thence turning and running Northerly by said Oak Hill Road to a point where the Southerly boundary line of land of the H. E. Fletcher Company extended strikes the middle of said Oak Hill Road; thence turning and running Northeasterly, South- easterly, Southerly, Easterly, Southeasterly, Southerly, Easterly by said H. E. Fletcher Company land to a point fifty (50) feet distant Westerly from the center line of the H. E. Fletcher Company railroad; thence turning and rumming Southeasterly and Southerly by a line fifty (50) feet distant from and parallel to said H. E. Fletcher Company railroad to the Boston and Maine Railroad line; thence turn- ing and running Northeasterly along said Boston and Maine Railroad line to a point which is fifty (50) feet Easterly from the center line of said H. E. Fletcher Company Railroad; thence turning and run- ning on a line fifty (50) feet distant from and parallel to the center line of said H. E. Fletcher Company Railroad Northerly, Northeasterly, Northwesterly and Northerly again across Nabmasset Street to a point approximately four hundred (400) feet North from said Nabnasset Street; thence turning and running due East to the Westford-Chelmsford Town Line; thence turning and running Northerly along said Westford-Chelms- ford Town Line to Groton Road to the point of beginning.

F. "Beginning at a point on the Westford-Tyngsboro Line, two hundred (200) feet Westerly of Tyngsboro Road; thence turning and running Westerly on said Westford-Tyngsboro Town Line to a point two hundred (200) feet Easterly of Tenney Road; thence turning and running Southerly on a line, two hundred (200) feet distant from and parallel to Tenney and Dunstable Roads to a point on the line extending due East from the point at which Spaulding Brock crosses Dunstable Road Southerly of Termey Road; thence turning and running due East on said line to a point three thousand (3000) feet due East of said point at which Spaulding Brock crosses Dunstable Road as aforesaid; thence turning and running Southeasterly on a line extending to the point on

Tyngsboro Road at which the Northeasterly boundary line of land of the Young Women's Christian Association strikes to a point two hundred (200) feet from Tyngsboro Road; thence turning and running Northerly on a line two hundred (200) feet fromand parallel to Tyngsboro Road to the point of beginning.

(6) Amend the Zoning By-Law Map so that the following areas are zoned Industrial B:

A. "Land formerly of Abbot Worsted Company, now of Stony Brook Properties, Incorporated, lying in the area bounded by Pleasant Street Pine Street, land of the Boston & Maine Railroad and Town Farm Road, and being shown on Sheet A-2 of the Assessors' plans.

B. "Land now of Arthur Abbood on the Westerly side of Carlisle Road and being shown on Sheet C-3 of the Assessors' plans.

C. "Land now of Nabnasset Realty Trust, Royal Shawcross, Trustee, on the Westerly side of Brookside Road, adjoining Stony Brook and being shown on Sheet D-5 of the Assessors' plans.

D. "A certain parcel of land bounded and described as follows:

Southwesterly by Nashoba Brook; Southeasterly by Boston Road;

Southeasterly, Easterly and Northeasterly by Concord Road; Northeasterly and Northerly by Route 110."

E. A certain parcel of land containing 160 acres more or less and bounded and described as follows:

"Beginning at the southerly bound of the premises, at the corner of the wall on the Howard Road; thence running Northerly on said road to a stake and stones at land of John Howard; thence Westerly on land of said Howard to a maple tree; thence Northerly, crossing a brook by land of said Howard and land formerly of Hutchins, to a stake and stones; thence Westerly on said land formerly of Hutchins to a stake and stones by the wall; thence Southerly on land formerly of heirs of Barnabas Dodge to a corner of the wall; thence Westerly on land of said Dodge heirs to the Brook; thence Westerly on said Brook to a stake and stones at land now or formerly of Phelps; thence Southerly on said land of Phelps to a stake and stones at a corner of land now or formerly of Thomas S. Tuttle; thence Southerly on said land of Tuttle to a corner of a wall at land of said Howard; thence Easterly as the wall now stands on land of said Howard to the first mentioned bound.

F. "Another tract or parcel of land in the Southwesterly part of said Westford on the Easterly side of said Town Road, and across said road from the Southerly end of parcel E, and bounded and de- scribed as follows:

"Beginning at said road and running Easterly by land of said Howard to land formerly of the heirs of John Davis; thence running

Southerly with the fence to land of Gardner Prouty; thence running Westerly by said Prouty's land to said road; thence running Northerly by said road to the point of beginning."

(7) Amend Article XII, Section 2, by deleting Item 4; and by inserting in place thereof a new Item 4 as follows:

"Industrial A" and by adding a new Item 5 as follows: "Industrial B";

or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of Seven Hundred Fifty ($750.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of purchasing new road signs and new traffic signs to be used for the protection of children, said sum to be ex- pended under the supervision of the Board of Selectmen; or act in re- lation thereto.

ARTICLE 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of Six Hundred Fifty ($650.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of painting traffic lines and signals on the public ways of the Town, said sum to be expended under the supervision of the Board of Selectmen; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the care of the Whitney Playground; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of Hot Topping the Tennis Court and repairing the surrounding fence at the Whitney Playground, said sum to be expended under the supervision of the Board of Selectmen; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of Two Hundred ($200.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the Tax Possession Sale Com- mittee; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of repairing and maintaining existing public sidewalks, said sum to be expended under the supervision of the Board of Select- men; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate a sufficient sum of money for the purpose of paying to the Treas- urer of Middlesex County Retirement System the amounts allocated to the Town of Westford by the County Commissioners in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 32 of the General Laws, as amended; or act in relation thereto.

Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to accept a gift måde to it during the year 1958 by the Isabel F. Hyams Fund, Inc., formerly known as the Solomon Hyams Fund, Inc; or act in relation thereto.

Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to accept the gift of a sword and pistol made to it under the will of the late Edward M. Abbot, said items to be placed in the custody of the J. V. Fletcher Library; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 30. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of Seventy-Five ($75.00) Dollars for the purpose of pro- moting the work of the Westford 4-H Clubs, said amount to be expended with the approval of the Westford 4-H Advisory Council; or act in re- lation thereto.

ARTICLE 31. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars, or some other sum, to be expended by and under the supervision of the Recreation Commission; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 32. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of Two Hundred ($200.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the "Development and Indus- trial Commission"; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 33. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of Seven Hundred ($700.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the dog officer; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 34. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of Nine Hundred ($900.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of providing suitable quarters for the Nabnasset American Legion Post No. 437 and the Auxiliary of said Post, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 6539 and the Auxiliary of said Post, and the Frederick S. Healy American Legion Post No. 159 and the Auxiliary of said Post; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 35. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate a sufficient sum of money for the purpose of paying to the Treas- urer of the Nashoba Associated Boards of Health the amount certified by said Boards as the Town's share of the cost and expenses of the District for the year 1959; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 36. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purposes of Civil Defense; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 37. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of Three Hundred Twenty-Five ($325.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of painting and decorating various portions of the interior of the Town Hall; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 38. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate a sufficient sum of money for the purpose of altering, enlarging, repairing or renovating the office of the Board of Assessors and for the purpose of purchasing various office furniture, furnishings and equipment; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 39. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of Ninety ($90.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of purchasing lighting fixtures for the office of the Board of Public Welfare; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE LO. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate a sufficient sum of money for the purpose of purchasing combina- tion storm windows and/or weather-stripping for the windows in the tower of the Town Hall; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 41. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of Two Hundred ($200.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of purchasing a generator to provide emergency lighting facilities in the Town Hall; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 42. To see if the Town will vote to accept the gift made to it during the year 1958 by Gordon B. Seavey, being the sign now standing on the Town Forest land at the corner of Forge Village Road and Cold Spring Road and which commemorates the gift of said land to the Town by Oscar R. Spalding; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 43. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of One Hundred Three ($103.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of purchasing an envelope sealing machine to be used by various Town officers and Departments of the Town; or act in rela- tion thereto.

ARTICLE 44. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of defraying the expenses in connection with the estab- lishment of the boundary lines of certain parcels of land belonging to the Town, situated in or near Tadmuck Swamp, devised to the Town under the wills of Oscar R. Spalding and/or Martina A. Gage, and for the purpose of defraying any and all other incidental or necessary expenses in connection therewith; and to authorize the Board of Select- men, in the name and behalf of the Town, to do and perform all acts, execute all necessary deeds and accept delivery of all deeds or other instruments necessary or incidental in connection therewith; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 45. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of purchasing a new automobile for the Police Depart- ment, said purchase to be made under the supervision of the Board of Selectmen; and to authorize said Board to transfer by a good and suf- ficient Bill of Sale title to the newest of the automobiles now being used by said Department and apply the sum received therefrom against the purchase price of the new automobile; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 46. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to install one street light on Tyngsborough Road; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 47. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to install one street light on Forge Village Road; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 48. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to install three street lights on Lucille Avenue; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 49. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to install one street light on Long Sought For Pond Road; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 50. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to install one street light on Forrest Road; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 51. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to install one street light on Pine Ridge Road; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 52. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to install one street light on Pine Street; or act in relation thereto.

ARTICLE 53. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from available funds a certain sum to be deducted by the Assessors under the provisions of Section 23 of Chapter 59 of the General Laws, as most recently amended, from the amount required to be assessed by them; or act in relation thereto.

And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting up true and attested copies thereof at the Town Hall and at each Post Office in said Westford, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.

Hereof fail not, and make return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of holding the first meeting aforesaid.

Given under our hands this thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord, 1959.

John J. Kavanagh Edward F. Harrington Horace F. Wyman Selectmen of Westford

Annual Report OF THE

School Committee

OF THE

TOWN OF WESTFORD

WEST

729

For the Year Ending December 31 1958

ORGANIZATION - SCHOOL COMMITTEE

Arthur A. Abbood

Term expires 1959

Richard S. Emmet, Jr., Secretary

R. Andrew Fletcher, Jr.

Term expires 1959 Term expires 1960 Term expires 1960

Robert J. Spimer

Norman E. Day, Chairman

Term expires 1961

J. Austin Healy, Jr.

Term expires 1961

SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS

Lloyd G. Blanchard

Office - Westford Academy

Telephone MY 2-6561

SECRETARY

Mrs. Emma G. Egerton

SCHOOL TELEPHONES

Westford Academy

MY 2-6771

Cameron School

MY 2-6542

Roudenbush School

MY 2-6911

Sargent School MY 2-6553

Wm. E. Frost School

MY 2-6230

Nabnasset School MY 2-6233

SCHOOL PHYSICIAN Maurice Huckins, Jr., M. D., Westford, Mass. Tel. MY 2-8090

SCHOOL NURSE

Dorothy Healy, R. N., Westford, Mass. Tel. Office MY 2-8431, Academy

REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE

TO THE CITIZENS OF THE TOWN OF WESTFORD, your School Committee re- spectfully submits this Report for the year ending December 31, 1958.

At this crossroads in the Town's growth where enrollments are threat- ening to exceed school capacities, where municipal costs are growing faster than the Town's tax base, where both the educational plant and program are being subjugated to a most thorough analysis for possible economies, it seems proper and fitting that this report should review a few basic educational beliefs, long range goals and achievements to date of your schools and School Committee.

This Report is to be interpreted, not as a Report of progress of the past year only, but as a review of total progress towards desirable goals. Changes in educational theory and practice evolve slowly. The foundation for a conspicuous step forward may well have been laid years before. What yet remains to be accomplished towards even a con- servative realization of the goals here outlined is the significant message of this Report.

SECTION I THE SCHOOLS AND THE COMMUNITY

The schools and the community are partners in the vital and complex business of educating the youth. These are your children, and you, the taxpayer, are paying the bill. The school staff is in your em- ploy, and must conform in the final analysis to your wishes. But as a partner, the schools have a moral obligation to define needs and press for the fulfillment of these needs. You have elected a School Committee to exercise sound judgment in the determination of policy towards better education within economic reason, but your responsi- bility does not cease with the election of a Committee. The needs as viewed by the schools require your participation to tailor them to community needs and to see that these needs are met. Education is everybody's business. Your schools and School Committee must make a greater effort to acquaint you with Westford's educational problems, and you, taxpayer, must make a personal effort to become better ac- quainted with your schools' problems and to participate in the im- provement of education for Westford's children.

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Town of Westford annual report 1956-1962, Part 28

Author: Westford (Mass.) Publication date: 1956 Publisher: Westford (Mass.) Number of Pages: 1048

Author: Westford (Mass.)
Publication date: 1956
Publisher: Westford (Mass.)
Number of Pages: 1048