HomeMy WebLinkAbout1953-03-02 Board of Public Works Minutes March 2, 1953
The regular meeting of the Board of Public Works opened at
7 :00 P.M.
Chairman Hopkins, Messrs. Kilgore, Johnson, Walker and Super-
intendent Welch were present.
Signed following plans:
Board of Public Works Plan - Oakland Rd. - Longfellow Rd. to
Waverly Rd.
- Hartshorn St. - Bancroft Ave. to
High School.
Hillside Rd. - Grandview Rd, to
Oakland Rd.
- Wentworth Rd. - Lewis St. 250 Ft. ,
Southerly
- Woodland St. , - John Carver Rd.
250 feet Northerly
Change of Grade Plan - Woodland St. , - John Carver Rd.
250 feet Northerly
It " " - Harvard St. - Essex St, to Lowell
St.
Hearing at 7:30 P.M. on the acceptance as a public way of a
portion of Hartshorn Street, from Bancroft Avenue to the High School
Parking Area.
Following persons present:
Mrs. Dorothy Carter - Against if assessments placed
Mr. William Carter - it " It
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Mrs. Nellie White - It
Mr. Harry White - It
Mr. Harold Weston - it it " It
Mr. Charles Wilson - Planning Board, Chairman
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Voted to recommend to the Town the acceptance of the above
described portion of Hartshorn Street as a public way.
Signed Board of Public Works plan for the above described portion
of Hartshorn Street.
Signed following reports of Laying out as public ways of the
following streets copies of which are attached hereto and herewith become
a part of these records.
Wentworth Road - Lewis Street - 250 Ft. Southerly
Oakland. Road - Longfellow Road to Waverly Road
Hillside Road - Grandview Road to Oakland Road
Hartshorn Street - Bancroft Avenue to High School Parking Area
Woodland Street - John Carver Road 250 Ft. Northerly
F— Temporarily adjourned at 7 :45 P.N. to meet as Board of Survey.
Reconvened at 8 :15 P.M.
Voted to abate the sum of $12.40 on the July 1952 water bill of
Mrs. Estabrook, 125 Middlesex Avenue.
Received letter from State Department Public Works agreeing to
more careful snow plowing on Main Street so that sidewalks will not be
filled with snow.
Voted Following pole locations :
Crosby Road --- 119/1 to 119/3 Inclusive
Edwin Street --- 116/1 to 116/2
Sunnyside Ave.-- 36/1 to 36/5 Inclusive
Winslow Road --- 221/10 to 221/11
Glenmere Circle- 240/1 to 240 Inclusive
Wadsworth Road-- 208/1 to 208/3
Tennyson Road--- 210/1 to 210/13
Whittier Road--- 209/1 to 209/20
Following Granolithic Sidewalk Applications, received, approved, and
placed on file.
Elbridge Springford 11 Kingston Street '
Elbridge Springford 17 Middlesex Avenue /
Following Granite Curb Aptlications received, approved and placed
on file:
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Elbridge Springford -- 17 Middlesex Avenue
Elbridge Springford --- 11 Kingston Street
Received letter from Town Counsel stating that while it is ,
legally possible for the Board to establish special entrance fee for
water services to lots abutting the access roads to the new High School
he would advise that it not be done.
Placed on file.
Received letter from T. F. McGann Co. , stating price for bronze
plaque for new elevated water tank.
Placed on file.
Voted to hold meeting of the Board on Friday evening, March 6,
1953 at 7:30 P.M. for the purpose of organizing for the coming year.
Boardadjourned at 9:15 P.M.
Respectfully submitted:
,Secretary ,
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March Town Meeting
1953
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Middlesex, as. Town of Reading
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS ON THE LAYING OUT OF
WOODLAND STREET
The Board of Public Works of the Town of Reading having
determined and adjudged that common convenience and necessity require
the laying out of a Town Way under the provisions of law authorizing the
assessment of betterments, substantially in the location hereinafter
described, having complied with all requirements of law relating 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 Westerly from the
Westerly side line of a Public Town Way now known as John Carver Road
to a dead end, substantially as and in the location of the private way
known as Woodland Street, the boundaries and measurements of said way
as so laid out are as follows:
Z Beginning at a stone bound set in the Westerly side
line of said John Carver Road at the point of curve of the
South-Westerly intersection of John Carver Road and Wood-
land (Private) Street;
Thence by a curved line to the Left, running in a North-
Westerly direction, having a radius of 17.70 feet, by lands
of David Marshall and E. Marjorie Marshall7 a length of
29.96 feet to a point of tangent;
Thence 5.690-58' -30"W. , still by lands of said David
Marshall and E. Marjorie Marshall, and by lands of Edwin W.
Fowlow and Marian H. Fowlow, a distance of 229.08 feet to
a point;
Thence turning and running N.90-051-00"W. , a distance
of 50.92 feet, along the Westerly terminus of this layout,
to a point;
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Thence turning and running N.690-58'-30"E. , by lands
of James J. Lewis and Elsie E. Lewis William J. McGee and
Elizabeth A. McGee, and lands of Daniel Madio and Florence
Madio, a distance of 220.49 feet to a point of curve;
Thence by a curved line to the Left, running in a
North-Easterly direction , having a radius of 27.84 feet,
and still by lands of said Daniel Madio at ux, a length of
40.74 feet to a point on said Westerly side line of John
Carver Road;
Thence S.130-031-10"E. , along said Westerly side line
of John Carver Road, a distance of 95.01 feet to the stone
bound at the point of beginning)P6 this description.
The above described lines being more fully shown on a Plan
entitled "Woodland Street, Reading, Mass." dated February, 1953,
Board of Public Works, Philip Welch, Superintendent, said Plan being
a part of this description.
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. All acts in connection with said laying out are
done under the provision of law authorizing the assessment of better-
ments, and betterments are to be assessed therefor.
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 Woodland Street, and that the sum of Four
Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty-Nine ($4,969.00) Dollars be raised and
appropriated for said laying out and for the construction of said way.
Chairman
_ Secretary
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Members of the Board of
Public Works
Town of Reading
March Town Meeting
1953
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Middlesex, ss. Town of Reading
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS ON THE LAYING OUT OF
HARTSHORN STREET
The Board of Public Works of the Town of Reading having
determined and adjudged that common convenience and necessity require
the laying out of a Town Way under the provisions of law authorizing
the assessment of betterments, substantially in the location hereinafter
described, having complied with all requirements of law relating 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 Westerly from a
town way now known as Bancroft Avenue to a dead end at land of the
Inhabitants of the Town of Reading, substantially as and in the loca-
tion of the private way known as Hartshorn Street, the boundaries and
measurements of said way as so laid out are as follows:
(Beginning at a point in the Easterly side line of
said Bancroft Avenue, said point being N.160-33'-00"W.
a distance of 480.0 feet measured along said Easterly side
line of Bancroft Avenue from a stone bound set opposite
Tower Road;
Thence N.160-33'-00"W. , along said Easterly side line
of Bancroft Avenue, and by lands of William H. Carter and
Dorothy V. Carter, and through lands of the Inhabitants of
the Town of Reading, a distance of 80.0 feet to a point;
Thence by a curved line running in a South-Easterly
direction, having a radius of 20.0 feet, still through lands
of the said Inhabitants of the Town of Reading, a length of
31.42 feet to a point of tangent;
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Thence N.730-271-00"E. , still through lands of the
said Inhabitants of the Town of Reading, a distance of
447.39 feet to a point;
Thence turning and running S.70-031-2011W. , by other
lands of the said Inhabitants of the Town of Reading, a
distance of 48.2 feet, more or less, to an angle point;
Thence turning and running S.70-451-0011W. , by lands
of Harry E. White and Nellie F. White, a distance of 21. 50
feet to a point at lands of George V. Hermann and Virginia
T. Hermann;
Thence turning and running S.810-411-50"W. , still by
lands of said George V. Hermann at ux, a distance of
142.50 feet to an angle point;
Thence turning and running S.750-09'-50"W. , still by
lands of said George V. Hermann at ux and by lands of
Harold L. Weston and Martha B. Weston, a distance of
189.50 feet to another angle point;
Thence turning and running S.730-271-00"w. , by lands
of said William H. Carter and Dorothy V. Carter, a distance
of 93.36 feet to a point of curve;
Thence by a curved line to the Left, running in a
South-Westerly direction, having a radius of 20.0 feet,
through lands of said William H. Carter at ux, a length of
31.42 feet to the point of beginning on said Easterly side
line of Bancroft Avenue end
The above described lines being more fully shown on a Plan
entitled "Hartshorn Street, Reading, Mass." , dated March, 1953, Board
of Public Works , Philip Welch, Superintendent, said Plan being a part
of this description.
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. All acts in connection with said laying out are
done under the provision of law authorizing the assessment of better-
ments, and betterments are to be assessed therefor.
This laying out so made by us we hereby report to the Town
for acceptance and recommend that said way shall thereafter be known
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as a public town way and named Hartshorn Street. p
Chairman
Secretary
Members of the Board of Public Works
Town of Reading
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March Town Meeting
1953
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Middlesex, ss. Town of Reading
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS ON THE LAYING OUT OF
WENTWORTH ROAD
The Board of Public Works of the Town of Reading having
determined and adjudged that common convenience and necessity require
the laying out of a Town Way under the provisions of law authorizing the
assessment of betterments, substantially in the location hereinafter
described, having complied with all requirements of law relating to
notice to the owners of land thereof and of a hearing thereon, and having
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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 South-Easterly from a town way
now known as Lewis Street to a dead end, substantially as and in the
location of the private way known as Wentworth Road, the boundaries and
measurements of said way as so laid out are as follows:
/Beginning at a point on the Southerlg side line of
said Lewis Street, said point being S. 77 -191-00"W. a
distance of 32.99 feet measured along said Southerly side
line of Lewis Street from the Westerly terminus of a curve
in said Southerly side line of Lewis Street having a radius
of 267.32 feet and a total length of are of 32.92 feet;
Thence by a curved line running in a South-Westerly
direction, having a radius of 20.0 feet, by lands of
Gilbert K. Richter and Helen R. Richter, a length of 31.23
feet to a point of tangent;
Thence S.120-09'-35"E. , still by lands of said Gilbert
F K. Richter et ux, and by lands of Rupert D. Conroy and Eva N.
(i�1 Conroy, a distance of 160.56 feet to a point;
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Thence turning and running S.770-521-00"W. , across
said Wentworth (Private) Road, a distance of 40.11 feet
to a point;
Thence turning and running N.120-09'-35"W. by lands
of Edward F. Appleton and Ruth E. Appleton and ands of
Peter W. Connors and Mary E. Connors, a distance of 159.82
feet to a point of curve;
Thence by a curved line to the Left, running in a
North-Westerly direction, having a radius of 20.0 feet,
stillby lands of said Peter W. Connors et ux, a length
of 31.60 feet to a point on the said Southerly side line
of Lewis Street;
Thence turning and running N.770-19'-00"E. , along said
Southerly side line of Lewis Street, a distance of 80.01
feet to the point of beginning.
The above described lines being more fully shown on a Plan
entitled "Wentworth Road , Reading, Mass." dated February, 1953,
Board of Public Works , Philip Welch, Superintendent, said Plan being
a part of this description.
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. All acts in connection with said laying out are done
under the provision of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, -
and betterments are to be assessed therefor.
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 Wentworth Road, and that the sum of Two
Thousand Three Hundred Ninety (62,390.00) Dollars be raised and appro-
priated for said laying out and for the construction of saidp way.
�^ Secretary
Members of the Board of Public Works
Town of Reading
March Town Meeting
1953
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Middlesex, as. Town of Reading
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS ON THE LAYING OUT OF
OAKLAND ROAD
The Board of Public Works of the Town of Reading having
determined and adjudged that common convenience and necessity require
the laying out of a Town Way under the provisions of law authorizing the
assessment of betterments, substantially in the location hereinafter
described, having complied with all requirements of law relating 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 North-Easterly and Northerly
from a town way now known as Longfellow Road to a private way known as
Waverly Road, substantially as and in the location of the private way
now known as Oakland Road, portions of said Oakland (Private) Road
having formerly been known as Tower Road, Cold Spring Road, and Glendale
Road, all private town ways, the boundaries and measurements of said
way as so laid out are as follows:
Beginning at a point on the Easterly side line of
said Longfellow Road, said point being N.120-20'-30"W. ,
a distance of 463.08 feet, measured along said Easterly
side line of Longfellow Road, from a point of curve situ-
ated at the North-Easterly intersection of said Longfellow
Road and Weston Road;
Thence by a curved line running in a North-Easterly
direction, having a radius of 20.0 feet, by lands of Rita H.
Copp, a length of 27.88 feet to a point of tangent;
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Thence N.670-31'-10"E. , still by lands of said Rita H.
Copp, and by lands of Stuart F. Richards and Ednamay K.
Richards and by the Northerly terminus of a private town
way known as Parkview Road, a distance of 252.24 feet to
an angle point;
Thence turning and running N.740-161-10"E. , still by
said Northerly terminus of Parkview (Private) Road, and
through other lands of said Stuart F. Richards at us, and
by lands of the Inhabitants of the Town of Reading, a
distance of 206.02 feet to a point of curve;
Thence by a curved line to the Left, running in a
North-Easterly direction, having a radius of 230.0 feet,
still by lands of said Inhabitants of the Town of Reading,
a length of 316.32 feet to a point of tangent;
Thence N.40-311-50"W. , still by lands of said Inhabitants
of the Town of Reading by the Westerly terminus of a
Private Way known as Hillside Road, by lands of Philip Leary,
and by other lands of the said Inhabitants of the Town of
Reading, a distance of 696.34 feet to a point of curve;
Thence by a curved line to the Right, Punning in a
' North-Easterly direction, having a radius of 165.0 feet,
still by lands of said Inhabitants of the Town of Reading,
a length of 102.41 feet to a point of tangent;
Thence N.310-01'-50"E. , still by lands of said Inhabi-
tants of the Town of Reading, a distance of 43.60 feet to
a point of curve;
Thence by a curved line to the Right, running in a
North-Easterly direction, still by lands of the said Inhabi-
tants of the Town of Reading, a length of 31.62 feet to a
point on the South-Westerly side line of said Waverly
(Private) Road;
Thence turning and running N. 580-581-10"W. , along said
South-Westerly side line of Waverly (Private) Road, a length
of 100.01 feet to a point;
Thence turning and running by a curved line in a
South-Easterly direction, having a radius of 20.0 feet,
through other lands of the said Inhabitants of the Town of
Reading, a length of 31.21 feet to a point of tangent;
Thence 5.310-011-50"W. , a distance of 44.63 feet to
' a point of curve;
Thence by a curved line to the Left, running in a South-
Easterly direction, having a radius of 225.0 feet, a length
of 139.65 feet to a point of tangent;
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[ Thence S.40-311-50"-E. , a length of 696.34 feet to
a point of curve;
Thence by a curved line to the Right, running in a
South-Westerly direction, having a radius of 170.0 feet,
a length of 233.80 feet to a point of tangent;
Thence S.740-161-10"W. , a distance of 209.56 feet
to an angle point;
The last five courses herein described being through
lands of the said Inhabitants of the Town of Reading;
Thence turning and running 5.670-31'-10"W. , still
through lands of said Inhabitants of the Town of Reading,
and through lands of Stuart F. Richards and Ednamay K.
Richards, a distance of 237.90 feet to a point of curve;
Thence by a curved line to the Right, running in a
North-Westerly direction, having a radius of 20.0 feet,
and still through lands of said Stuart F. Richards et ux,
a length of 34.95 feet to a point on the said Easterly
side line of Longfellow Road;
Thence turning and running S.120-201-30"E. , along said
Easterly side line of Longfellow Road, a distance of 101.60
feet to the point of beginning)end Z
The above described lines being more fully shown on a Plan
entitled "Oakland Road, Reading, Mass." dated February, 1953, Board
of Public Works, Philip Welch, Superintendent, said Plan being a part
of this description.
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. All acts in connection with said laying out are
done under the provision of law authorizing the assessment of better-
ments, and betterments are to be assessed therefor.
This laying out so made by us we hereby report to the Town
for acceptance and recommend that said way shall thereafter be known
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as a public town way and named Oakland Road.
✓Lt .� S 7z''�.IY�«-'o fb. Chairman
Secretary
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Members of the Board of Public Works
Town of Reading
1
March Town Meeting
1953
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Middlesex, as. Town of Reading
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS ON THE LAYING OUT OF
HILLSIDE ROAD
The Board of Public Works of the Town of Reading having
determined and adjudged that common convenience and necessity
require the laying out of a Town Way under the provisions of law
authorizing the assessment of betterments, substantially in the
location hereinafter described, having complied with all require-
ments of law relating 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 Westerly from the Westerly terminus of a Public Town
Way known as Hillside Road as accepted as a public town way on
March 21, 1932, to Oakland Road, substantially as and in the loca-
tion of the private way known as Hillside Road, the boundaries and
measurements of said way as so laid out are as follows:
Beginning at the point of intersection of the
Westerly terminus of the Northerly side line of Hill-
side Road with the Easterly side line of a private town
way known as Grandview Road, said point being the North-
Westerly terminus of the March 21, 1932 acceptance of
said Hillside Road;
Thence S.850-281-10"W. , across said Grandview
(Private) Road, and by lands of Elmer E. Young and
Mabel E. Young, and lands of Philip Leary, a distance
of 220.0 feet to a point of curve;
' Thence by a curved line to the Right, running in a
North-Westerly direction, having a radius of 20.0 feet,
still by lands of said Philip Leary, a length of 31.42
feet to a point on the Easterly side line of said
Oakland Road;
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Thence turning and running S.40-311-50"E. , along
said Easterly side line of Oakland Road, a distance of
80.0 feet to a point;
Thence by a curved line running in a Northerly and
Easterly direction, having a radius of 20.0 feet, by lands
of the Inhabitants of the Town of Reading, a length of
31.42 feet to a point of tangent;
Thence N.85e-281-10"E. , still by lands of the said
Inhabitants of the Town of Reading, and by lands of
Roland E. Ellis and Edna E. Ellis , a distance of 220.0
feet to a point, said point being at the point of inter-
section of the Westerly terminus of the Southerly side
line of Hillside Road with the Easterly side line of
said Grandview (Private) Road, said point being the South-
Westerly terminus of the March 21, 1932 acceptance of
said Hillside Road;
Thence turning and running N.4°-31'-50"W. , along the
Westerly terminus of said public town way known as
Hillside Road, a distance of 40.0 feet to the point of
beginning.
The above described lines being more fully shown on a Plan
entitled "Hillside Road, Reading, Mass ." dated February, 1953, Board
of Public Works, Philip Welch, Superintendent, said Plan being a
part of this description.
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. All acts in connection with said laying out are
done under the provision of law authorizing the assessment of better-
ments, and betterments are to be assessed therefor.
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 Hillside Road.
Chairman
Secretary
Members of the Board of
Public Works
Town of Reading