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Annual Town Meeting March 15, 1954 This area is fed from 'a twelve inch°main'in Ash -Sheet. Would be sufficient for most industries excepting those using extreme amounts of water. As to drilling for own water supply,-.the amount would be small. in our opinion. I In general the present Town supply is.not suffic.ient.to service industries which require water in-more than small amounts. SBVER The main trunk sewer for. the Town runs through private property from John Street to Ash-Street and passesvunder °the railroad. The technical problems of extending the sewer to the entire in- dustrial area are relativel,y.minor although.some.of the extensions required would be expensive,due'to deep cuts in poor coll. The main problem here would be the trunk sewer and the pumping station. Both.are'now being used to near capacity.. If some types of industries were built, the trunk.sewer would hate to be enlarged and the pumping discharge cApaeity increased. ROADS, Most Town roads in this area are not of the, type to give good. service to industries. Under ordinary conditions they would have to be widened and rebuilt. However, the real closeness of Route 128 will relieve this situation to a great extent. So much so that it might not he necessary to widen the roads. However, the surface of the roads are in general oil treated gravel, a relatively weak type of construction. In most cases the surfaces would have to be rebuilt and stronger :type surfaces substituted. Toe Industrial. '.area contemn very little mileage of Town roads Development of the area would undoubtedly require the construction of additional roads which presumably would-be financed by the de- j velopers. ti CONSIDERATION OF WELFARE LOAD After consideration of the welfare load presently, ` the figures for some years back, and projeeting the future, as well as an anal- ysis of the present use of pension plans.along:with other types of fringe benefits, it would: seem to indicate: that the industrial worker of the future would be less of .a welfare liability than in the past. For example, private pension funds as of December 2, 1953, had grown to a figure of $17,000..000,000.0 and this figure is presently grow- Ing at the annual rate of 20000,0001000. per year. This private pension-fund covers some 3.0,000,000 workers. In addition, through the medium of unemployment insurance and Social.Security coverage, It would seem logical to assume that the growth of this bremendous reservoir of money should have some effect on the type of individual to be considered on future welfare rolls, and it would thus seem that a moderate increase in.well.chosen industry within an industrial development would not materially-affect welfare costs for the future. POPULATION GROWTH With the modern modes of transportation; population growth as a result of industrial.expansion was analyzed. With population growth ] would come the need for, increased 'school facilities, public safety f y measures, etc. However,,. after checking with local cities and towns which had shown a large activity in recent years in attracting new industries, and in the considered opinion of those community officers, housing developments that'had taken place were not directly attribu- table to new industry, as many of the employees were commuting from nearby communities. There was, of course, some popular attraction, but not to any great extent.. It is hard to pin point any factual deci- sion other than opinions- on this particular question. ZONING The zoning law regarding the industrial boning was also analyzed,