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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1998-03-09 Special Town Meeting WarrantCOMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Middlesex, ss. Officer's Return, Reading: By virtue of this Warrant, I, on February 19, 1998 notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Reading, qualified to vote on town affairs, to meet at the place and at the time specified by posting attested copies of this Town Meeting Warrant in the following public places within the Town of Reading: Precinct 1 Precinct 2 Precinct 3 Precinct 4 Precinct 5 Precinct 6 Precinct 7 Precinct 8 J. Warren Killam School, 333 Charles Street Registry of Motor Vehicles, 275 Salem Street Reading Police Station, 67 Pleasant Street Joshua Eaton School, 365 Summer Avenue Town Hall, 16 Lowell Street Alice M. Barrows School, 16 Edgemont Avenue Reading Library, Local History Room, 64 Middlesex Avenue Arthur W. Coolidge, Middle School, 89 Birch Meadow Drive The date of posting being not less than fourteen (14) days prior to March 9,1998, the date set for the Special Town Meeting in this Warrant. I also caused an attested copy of this Warrant to be published in the Reading Chronicle in the issue of February 19, 1998. Sally M. H , Constable A true copy. Attest: ACh . Johnson own Clerk SPECIAL TOWN MEETING (Seal) COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Middlesex, ss. To any of the constables of the Town of Reading, Greetings: In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Reading, qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, to meet at the Reading Memorial High School Auditorium, 62 Oakland Road, on Monday, March 9, 1998 at seven-thirty o'clock in the evening, at which time and place the following Articles are to be acted upon and determined exclusively by Town Meeting Members in accordance with the provisions of the Reading Home Rule Charter. ARTICLE 1 To hear and act on the reports of the Board of Selectmen, Town Accountant, Treasurer-Collector, Board of Assessors, Director of Public Works, Town Clerk, Tree Warden, Board of Health, School Committee, Contributory Retirement Board, Library Trustees, Municipal Light Board, Finance Committee, Cemetery Trustees, Community Planning & Development Commission, Town Manager and any other Board or Special Committee. Board of Selectmen ARTICLE 2 To choose all other necessary Town Officers and Special Committees and determine what instructions shall be given to Town Officers and Special Committees, and to see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate for the purpose of funding Town Officers and Special Committees to carry out the instructions given to them, or take any other action with respect thereto. Board of Selectmen ARTICLE 3 To see if the Town will vote to amend the FY 1998-FY 2007 Capital Improvements Program as provided for in Section 7-7 of the Reading Home Rule Charter, or take any other action with respect thereto. Board of Selectmen ARTICLE 4 To see if the Town will vote to amend one or more of the votes taken under Article 22 of the Warrant of the Annual Town Meeting of April 14, 1997 as amended under Article 5 of the Subsequent Town Meeting of November 10, 1997 relating to the Fiscal Year 1998 Municipal Budget, and to see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate as the result of any such amended votes for the operation of the Town and its government, or take any other action with respect thereto. Board of Selectmen ARTICLE 5 To see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing, or from the tax levy, or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate for the purpose of constructing a new police station on land currently owned by the Town at 13 Union Street, and abutting property, including the cost of original furnishings and equipment, architectural fees, engineering fees, inspection fees, relocation costs, contingencies and related expenses incidental thereto and necessary in connection therewith, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen, and to see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to file applications for a grant or grants to be used to defray all or any part of the cost of said police station and related matters, and to see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to enter into all contracts and agreements as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Article, or take any other action with respect thereto. Board of Selectmen ARTICLE 6 To see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing, or from the tax levy, or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate for the purpose of constructing additions, remodeling, reconstructing and making extraordinary repairs to the Arthur W. Coolidge Junior High School on Birch Meadow Drive, including the costs of original furnishings and equipment, engineering and architectural fees, inspection fees, relocation costs, contingencies and related expenses incidental thereto and necessary in connection therewith, said sum to be expended by and under the direction of the School Committee; and to see if the Town will vote to authorize the School Committee to file applications for a grant or grants to be used to defray all or any part of the cost of said school renovations and additions and related matters, and to see if the Town will vote to authorize the School Committee to enter into all contracts and agreements as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Article, or take any other action with respect thereto. School Committee ARTICLE 7 To see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing, or from the tax levy or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate for the replacement of boilers and/or burners and for the abatement and/or removal of asbestos at any or all of the following locations: Birch Meadow School, 27 Arthur B. Lord Drive; and the Reading Memorial High School, 62 Oakland Road, . Reading Massachusetts; such appropriation to include all engineering fees and preparation costs required to complete the purpose of this Article, all moneys to be spent under the direction of the Reading School Committee, or take any other action with respect thereto. School Committee i ARTICLE 8 To see if the Town will vote to instruct its State Representatives and State Senator to file a Horne Rule Petition with the General Court and pass said _ petition in substantially the form of the following, or take any other action with respect thereto. "AN ACT RELATIVE TO A CERTAIN RETIRED EMPLOYEE OF THE TOWN OF READING. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: Section 1. Notwithstanding any special or general law, rule or regulation to the contrary the town of Reading is hereby authorized to grant Louis Bacigalupo a superannuation retirement allowance in accordance with Chapter 32 of the General Laws equal to 2.1% of either (i) the average annual rate of regular compensation received by Mr. Bacigalupo during any period of three consecutive years of creditable service for which such rate of compensation was highest, or (ii) the average annual rate of regular compensation received by Mr. Bacigalupo during the period or periods, whether consecutive or not, constituting his last three years of creditable service preceding retirement, whichever is the greater, multiplied by the number of years of creditable service. Section 2. This act shall take effect as of January 1, 1998." Board of Selectmen ARTICLE 9 To see if the Town will vote to transfer the care, custody, management and control of all or any part of the following described property, currently being held by the Board of Selectmen for protecting the water supply of the Town to the Board of Selectmen for any other municipal purpose, including the possible sale or lease thereof, or take any other action with respect thereto: Approximately 22,500 square feet of land located on Grove Street being a portion of the land shown on Reading Board of Assessors' Revised Jan. 1, 1977 Map 187 as Lot 3, and being a portion of the land described at the Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds in Book 6656, Page 167. Historical Commission ARTICLE 10 To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to convey all or any part of the following described property, and to determine the minimum amount to paid for such conveyance, and to authorize the Board of Selectmen to convey all or any part of said property for such amount of money, or a larger amount, and upon such other terms and conditions as the Board of Selectmen shall consider proper and to deliver a deed therefor; and to see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing, or from the tax levy, or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate to the Board of Selectmen to carry out the purposes of this vote, or take any other action with respect thereto: Approximately 22,500 square feet of land located on Grove Street being a portion of the land shown on Reading Board of Assessors' Revised Jan. 1, 1977 Map 187 as Lot 3, and being a portion of the land described at the Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds in Book 6656, Page 167. Historical Commission ARTICLE 11 To see if the Town will vote to transfer the care, custody, management and control of all or any part of the following described property, currently being held for public purposes, from the Board of Selectmen to the Board of Selectmen for any other municipal purpose, including the possible sale or lease thereof; or take any other action with respect thereto: The land located on Sweetser Avenue and Washington Street shown on Reading Board of Assessors' Revised Jan. 1, 1984 Map 52 as Lot 22A consisting of 17, 315 square feet of land, more or less, and being a portion of the land described at the Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds in Book 4052, Page 596. Historical Commission ARTICLE 12 To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to convey all or any part of the following described property, and to determine the minimum amount to paid for such conveyance, and to authorize the Board of Selectmen to convey all or any part of said property for such amount of money, or. a larger amount, and upon such other terms and conditions as the Board of Selectmen shall consider proper and to deliver a deed therefor; and to see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing, or from the tax levy, or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate to the Board of Selectmen to carry out the purposes of this vote, or take any other action with respect thereto: The land located on Sweetser Avenue and Washington Street shown on Reading Board of Assessors' Revised Jan. 1, 1984 Map 52 as Lot 22A consisting of 17, 315 square feet of land, more or less, and being a portion of the land described at the Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds in Book 4052, Page 596. Historical Commission ARTICLE 13 To see if the Town will vote to amend the Reading Zoning By- Laws as follows: By adding at the end of Section 3.1. the word "Overlay" under the column heading Tvpe, the words "Historic Preservation" under the column heading Full Name, and the letters "HP" under the column heading Short Name; 2. By adding to Section 4.2.2. Table of Uses the following line under the line headed Municipal Building Reuse in the category Other Uses, the heading "Historical Preservation" followed on the same new line by. the letters "SPP*****" under each of the columns entitled RES S-15, S-20, and S-40 and by adding the word "NO" under the columns entitled RES A-40, RES A-80, BUS A, BUS B, BUS C, and IND, and by adding at the end of said Section 4.2.2. the following footnote: Historic Preservation use may be permitted only within an HP Overlay District which may exist only in a RES S-15, S-20, or S-40 underlying Zoning District 3. By amending Section 4.6. by deleting the word "Reserved" and by adding the following: "4.6. HISTORIC PRESERVATION 4.6.1. Purpose: The Historic Preservation uses allowed by this section are intended to enable the preservation and/or rehabilitation and continuing viability and use of historic structures in Reading by permitting a limited range of other uses for such structures beyond those permitted as of right in the underlying Zoning District in which the structure is located, or to which it is to be relocated. The Historic Preservation District shall be considered overlying other districts established by this By-Law. Any uses permitted in the portions of the districts so overlaid shall be permitted. In addition, the uses specified in Section 4.6.3. may be permitted in such an overlay district only under and according to a Special Permit, issued by the Community Planning and Development Commission ("CPDC") pursuant to this Section 4.6. This Special Permit shall specifically govern such uses and the arrangement, layout, extent, and quality of such uses, of the structure and the methods for preserving or rehabilitating such structure, of the grounds of the lot containing such structure or which will contain a relocated historic structure, and of measures and improvements to such property or its environs only as deemed appropriate by CPDC, with the advice of the Reading Historical Commission. 4.6.2. Overlay District: A Special Permit may, be granted under this Section only for an historic structure which is, or is to be, located within an Historic Preservation Overlay District as shown on the Reading Zoning Map. CPDC may only grant historic structure which: a Special Permit under this Section for an a. Is listed on, or is within an area listed on, the National Register of Historic Places, the Massachusetts Register of Historic Places, or is the subject of pending application for listing on said registers; or b. Is-included in the Historic and Architectural Inventory maintained by the Reading Historical Commission, as of September 1, 1995 or as may be updated from time to time by the Historical Commission; or c. Has been determined by an affirmative vote of at least four members of the Historical Commission to be historically and architecturally significant in terms of period, style, use, method of building construction, or association with a significant architect, builder or person either by itself or as part of a group of buildings. 4.6.3. Uses by Special Permit: In a Historic Preservation Overlay District, in addition to those uses permitted under Section 4.2.2. Table of Uses in the underlying zoning district, the following uses may be allowed by Special Permit for a historic structure as specified in Section 4.6.2. and the land upon which the structure is situated: a. Professional law office, architect's office, engineering office, or professional land surveyor's office provided that the user is duly licensed as such a professional by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, provided that such structure does not contain more than one employee for each 2,000 square feet of area of the lot on which the structure is located, and provided that the structure must retain the external characteristics and appearance of a dwelling. The uses enumerated above may occupy the entire structure or a portion of the structure in combination with any other use so enumerated above or with any use permitted in the underlying zoning district as of right. 4.6.4. Dimensional Controls and Other Provisions: All dimensional controls in Section 5.1.2. and off-street parking and loading requirements as established in these Zoning By-Laws shall apply to any structure and lot in a Historic Preservation Overlay District as applicable to the underlying zoning district, except that no loading/unloading space shall be required. CPDC may grant a variance from the provisions of Section 5.2.1. Lot Shape. 4.6.5. Special Permit Procedure and Criteria: Notwithstanding Section 4.3.3.7. of these By-Laws to the contrary, the provision of Section 4.3.3., Site Plan Review, shall apply to any application for an Historic Preservation Special Permit. CPDC shall not grant an Historic Preservation Special Permit unless it is satisfied that the submitted proposal complies with the Zoning By-Laws, is appropriate to the character of the Town and of the neighborhood in which the historic structure is, or is to be, located, will not be detrimental to the public good, and unless it receives a recommendation from the Reading Historical Commission that: _ a. The proposed uses are appropriate and effective to ensure and enable the feasibility of the preservation or rehabilitation of the historic structure, together with documentation of the facts upon which such recommendation is based, and b. The proposed activities and improvements to both the historic structure and the lot are appropriate to the historical and architectural character of the structure and its environs. 4.6.6. Limitation on Special Permit: Subsequent to the granting of a Historic Preservation Special Permit, any alterations or changes in type or extent of uses of the structure or property which are inconsistent with the conditions of the Special Permit or with the plans and documentation upon which the granting of the Special Permit was based, shall be sufficient grounds for CPDC to revoke the Special Permit, and any use of the structure or property not permitted according to the underlying zoning district shall cease. CPDC may by public hearing consider the application of the property owner for any restoration, modification, or alteration of the structure, use, or lot in accordance with these By-Laws." or take any other action with respect thereto. Historical Commission ARTICLE 14 To see if the Town will vote to amend the Reading Zoning Map by placing an Historic Preservation Overlay District on property currently owned by the Town of Reading located on the northerly side of Sweetser Avenue and the southerly side of Washington Street and shown as Parcel 22A on Reading Board of Assessors' Map 52, revised January 1, 1984, or take any other action with respect thereto. Historical Commission and you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting an attested copy thereof in at least one (1) public place in each precinct of the Town not less than fourteen. (14) days prior to March 9, 1998, the date set for the meeting in said Warrant, and to publish this Warrant in a newspaper published in the Town, or by mailing an attested copy of said Warrant to each Town Meeting Member at least fourteen (14) days prior to the time of holding said meeting. Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at or before the time appointed for said meeting. Given under our hands this 17`h day of February, 1998. Camille W. Anthony, Chairman i W..'8 ce MacDonald, Ice Chairman Sally M. oyt, Secretary Daniel A. Ensminger Geor V. Hines SELECTMEN OF READING .J Sally M. Ho , Constable