WARRANT FOR SPECIAL TOWN MEETING—October 23, 2006

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

TOWN OF EAST LONGMEADOW

 

HAMPDEN, ss:

 

To the Constables or the Tax Collector for the Town of East Longmeadow:

 

            In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town of East Longmeadow, Massachusetts to meet on Monday, October 23, 2006 at            

7 o’clock in the evening, in the auditorium of the Senior High School, at which time and place action upon the following Articles will be taken:

 

ARTICLE 1.  To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the repair and completion of Rollins Drive; as recommended by the Planning Board and the Board of Public Works, and pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.

Sponsored by:  Planning Board and Board of Public Works                                                             $48,732.00

Appropriations Committee Recommendation:  No Recommendation

 

ARICLE 2.  To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to take in fee simple pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 79, or otherwise, accept as a Public Way the following street as recommended by the Planning Board and the Board of Public Works:

 

ROLLINS DRIVE: a strip of land Sixty (60) feet in width beginning on the westerly side of Parker Street thence running Westerly a distance of approximately One Thousand Twenty-three (1,023) feet to its terminus at a cul-de-sac, as shown on plans recorded in the Hampden County Registry of Deeds at Book 308, Page 20, and pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.

Sponsored by:  Planning Board and Board of Public Works

 

ARTICLE 3.  To see if the Town will vote to raise and/or appropriate a sum of money to be provided for by taxation, from available funds in the Treasury, or by borrowing or otherwise, for highway construction and/or reconstruction of maintenance purposes, which is to be reimbursed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and pass any vote or take any other action relative thereto.

Sponsored by:  Board of Public Works                                                                                              $160,694.00

Appropriations Committee Recommendation: Recommended

Capital Planning Committee Recommendation: Recommended

 

ARTICLE 4.  To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer a sum of money from the Water Undesignated Fund Balance Account to the Prospect Water Tower Project Account #3079450 approved at the Town Meeting of May 2, 2005, and pass any vote or take any other action relative thereto.

Sponsored by:  Board of Public Works                                                                                              $374,890.00

Appropriations Committee Recommendation: Recommended

Capital Planning Committee Recommendation: Recommended

 

ARTICLE 5.  To see if the Town will vote to authorize an increase in the amount of $5,500.00 for a total not to exceed $40,500.00 during the fiscal year that may be expended from the Local Cable Access Revolving Fund, as approved by the Board of Selectmen; and pass any vote or take any other action relative thereto.

Sponsored by:  Board of Selectmen                                                                                                   $5,500.00

Appropriations Committee Recommendation: Recommended

 

 

ARTICLE 6.  To see if the Town will vote to authorize an increase in the amount of money that may be transferred from the Dog Revolving Fund Account not to exceed $21,000.00 during the fiscal year, as approved by the Board of Selectmen; and pass any vote or take any other action relative thereto.

 

ARTICLE 7.  To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to the Health Agent Salary Account, and pass any vote or take any other action relative thereto.

Sponsored by:  Board of Selectmen                                                                                                   $1,500.00

Appropriations Committee Recommendation: Recommended

 

ARTICLE 8.  To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to the Recreation Department Salary Account to be used to pay for supervision and maintenance tasks at Pine Knoll for the spring of 2007, and pass any vote or take any other action relative thereto.

Sponsored by:  Board of Selectmen                                                                                                    $5,250.00

Appropriations Committee Recommendation: No Recommendation

 

ARTICLE 9.  To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Community Preservation Committee to spend Community Preservation Act Revenues, not to exceed 5% of such annual revenues, for administrative costs incurred by the Community Preservation Committee, and pass any vote or take any other action relative thereto.

Sponsored by:  Board of Selectmen

Appropriations Committee Recommendation: No Recommendation

 

ARTICLE 10.  To see if the Town will vote to amend the East Longmeadow Zoning By-Law, 1991 Revision, pursuant to M.G.L. Chapter 40A to make changes to the Land Use Classification Table, Section 3.054 for the purpose of adding a use to a district as recommended by the Planning Board, specifically:

 

3.054 Hospital or sanitarium, medical clinic:

 

To allow such use in the Industrial Garden District under Special Permit with special standards and conditions as cited in Section 7.2, subsection 7.33, and pass any vote or take any other action relative thereto.

Sponsored by:  Planning Board 

 

ARTICLE 11.  To authorize the Board of Selectmen of the Town of East Longmeadow, to submit to the Legislature for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the following proposed Special Legislation:

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF EAST LONGMEADOW TO GRANT ONE (1) ADDITIONAL LICENSE FOR THE SALE OF ALL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES TO BE DRUNK ON THE PREMISES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding section 17 of Chapter 138 of the General Laws, the licensing authority of the Town of East Longmeadow may grant one (1) additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises under section 12 of said chapter 138; to be located within the retail/commercial development known as East Longmeadow Center Village, located at 84 Center Square within the Town of East Longmeadow.  The license shall not be transferable off the premises and shall be subject to all of said chapter 138, except said section 17.

SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect upon its passage and shall expire only upon a vote by the Board of Selectmen for the Town, subsequent to the completion of the 2010 decennial census for the Town by the United States Census Bureau, and pass any vote or take any other action relative thereto.

Sponsored by:  Petition of Lynn A. Brown and others.

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 12.  Pursuant to the Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 40A Section 5 and Massachusetts general Law Chapter 39 Section 10, R.E. LaPlante Construction, Inc., a Massachusetts Corporation usual place of business 296 North Main Street, East Longmeadow, Hampden County, Massachusetts, as agent for the current owner of the land described below and the undersigned propose the following warrant article to see if the town of East Longmeadow will vote to amend the existing zoning map of the Town of East Longmeadow as follows.  By removing the following described land from the industrial and Residential C zoning district and establish the same as a Commercial district.  The street address is 94 Maple Street in East Longmeadow, MA and the parcel is more particularly bounded and described as follows:

 

Beginning at a County Highway bound in the Southerly line of Maple Street, East Longmeadow, Massachusetts and running thence Northerly 74°30′ East along said Southerly line of Maple Street One Hundred Forty Five and 74/100 (145.74) feet to an iron rod at the North Westerly corner of a twenty (20) foot right of way; thence Southerly 0°35′ West along said Westerly line of said twenty (20) foot right of way, Two Hundred Sixty Four and 29/100 (264.29) feet to an iron rod at land now or formerly of Nellie and Erroll L. Buker; thence Northerly 84°48′ West along other land now or formerly of Nellie and Erroll L. Buker, One Hundred Sixty Seven and 92/100 (167.92) feet to an iron rod at other land now or formerly of Nellie and Errol L. Buker; thence Northerly 5°12′ East along land now or formerly of Nellie and Erroll L. Buker, Two Hundred Seven and 89/100 (207.89) feet to an iron rod in the Southerly line of Maple Street; thence Northerly 73°41′ East along said Southerly line of Maple Street of Ten and 90/100 (10.90) feet to a County Highway bounded at the point of beginning.

 

The above described parcel of land containing 37,182 square feet and all is shown on a plan made by Durkee, White, and Towne Engineers and numbered 70-3231-A, and pass any vote or take any other action relative thereto.

 

Sponsored by:  Petition of R. E. LaPlante Construction, Inc. and others.

 

ARTICLE 13.

To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to take in fee simple pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 79, or otherwise, accept as a Public Way the following street as recommended by the Planning Board and the Board of Public Works:

 

DEERPARK DRIVE:  a strip of land Sixty (60) feet in width beginning at the westerly end of the previously accepted street and running westerly for a distance of approximately One Thousand One Hundred Ninety-five (1,195) feet to its terminus at a cul-de-sac, as shown on plans recorded in the Hampden County Registry of Deeds at Book 334, Page 64, and to pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.

Sponsored by:  Planning Board and Board of Public Works

 

ARTICLE 14.  To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to take in fee simple pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 79, or otherwise, accept as a Public Way the following street as recommended by the Planning Board and the Board of Public Works:

 

A PORTION OF CANTERBURY CIRCLE – GREAT WOODS PHASE IV:  A strip of land Sixty (60) feet in width beginning at a point 136.41 feet southwesterly from the intersection with Yorkshire Place and continuing southwesterly for approximately two thousand (2,000) feet, as shown on plans recorded in the Hampden County Registry of Deeds at Book 318, Page 27, and to pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.

Sponsored by:  Planning Board and Board of Public Works

 

ARTICLE 15.  To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to take in fee simple pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 79, or otherwise, accept as Public Ways  the following streets as recommended by the Planning Board and the Board of Public Works:

 

A PORTION OF PEMBROKE TERRACE AND ROCKINGHAM CIRCLE – GREAT WOODS PHASE V, Strips of land sixty (60) feet in width along Pembroke Terrace a distance of Five Hundred (500) feet and commencing at the intersection of Rockingham Circle and Pembroke Terrace running southeasterly on

 

Rockingham Circle approximately Four Hundred (400) feet as shown on plans filed in the Hampden County Registry of Deeds at Book 322, Page 87, and to pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.

Sponsored by:  Planning Board and Board of Public Works

 

ARTICLE 16.  To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to take in fee simple pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 79, or otherwise, accept as a Public Way  the following street as recommended by the Planning Board and the Board of Public Works:

 

ABBEY LANE – GREAT WOODS PHASE VI, a strip of land sixty (60) feet in width beginning at the intersection of Pembroke Terrace running then northwesterly and then northeasterly to a cul-de-sac approximately Six Hundred Fifty (650) feet as shown on plans filed with the Hampden County Registry of Deeds at Book 330, Page, 127, and to pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.

Sponsored by:  Planning Board and Board of Public Works

 

ARTICLE 17.  To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to take in fee simple pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 79, or otherwise, accept as a Public Way the following street as recommended by the Planning Board and the Board of Public Works:

 

A PORTION OF CANTERBURY CIRCLE – GREAT WOODS PHASE VII:  A strip of land Sixty (60) feet in width beginning at a point at the previously accepted portion of Canterbury Circle as described in Phase II thence in a northwesterly then southeasterly direction a distance of approximately One Thousand Three Hundred Forty-five (1345) feet, as shown on plans recorded in the Hampden County Registry of Deeds at Book 334 Page 61, and to pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.

Sponsored by:  Planning Board and Board of Public Works

 

ARTICLE 18.  To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to take in fee simple pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 79, or otherwise, accept as a Public Way the following street as recommended by the Planning Board and the Board of Public Works:

 

ROCKINGHAM CIRCLE – GREAT WOODS PHASE IX; A strip of land Sixty (60) feet in width beginning at a point at the previously accepted portion of Rockingham Circle as described in Phase V, thence in a northwesterly direction a distance of approximately Five Hundred Sixty (560) feet to its terminus at a cul-de-sac, as shown on plans recorded in the Hampden County Registry of Deeds at Book 338 Page 23, and to pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.

Sponsored by:  Planning Board and Board of Public Works

 

ARTICLE 19.  To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to take in fee simple pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 79, or otherwise, accept as a Public Way the following street as recommended by the Planning Board and the Board of Public Works:

 

GLYNN FARMS EXTENSION: A strip of land Sixty (60) feet in width beginning at the end of the previously accepted portion of Glynn Farms Drive thence in a southerly direction a distance of approximately One Hundred Thirty-eight (138) feet to its terminus at a cul-de-sac, as shown on plans recorded in the Hampden County Registry of Deeds at Book 332 Page 33, and to pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.

Sponsored by:  Planning Board and Board of Public Works

 

 

 

 

 

 

Given under our hands this October 3, 2006:

 

                                  

                                                                                        James D. Driscoll, Chairman

                                                                                                                                                                 

 

                                                                Gary DeLisle

 

 

                                                                Joe Townshend

                                                                                        BOARD OF SELECTMEN

 

Note to residents:  Residents are asked to remember to bring this copy of the Special Town Meeting Warrant with them to the Town Meeting as only a limited number of additional copies will be made available.  If any attendee has any special needs to participate at this Special Town Meeting, please contact the Town’s ADA Coordinator, Nick Breault, Executive Secretary, at 525-5400, ext. 420. 

Note: All non-voters may be asked to sit in alternate seating.