Annual report of the Division of Housing and Town Planning for the year ending November 30 ... . and duplicate street names, also in upholding thezone plan. Weymouth. No report. Winchester. No report. Winthrop. Working on a rezoning plan to take the place of the more ele-mentary plan. IVorcester. Working to make the earlier proposed plan more practical, re-lieving traffic problems, increasing the front yard provisions of the zoningordinance and supporting a two million bond issue for three major streetimprovements. Yarmouth. The boards zone plan was defeated but the board keeps in activetouch


Annual report of the Division of Housing and Town Planning for the year ending November 30 ... . and duplicate street names, also in upholding thezone plan. Weymouth. No report. Winchester. No report. Winthrop. Working on a rezoning plan to take the place of the more ele-mentary plan. IVorcester. Working to make the earlier proposed plan more practical, re-lieving traffic problems, increasing the front yard provisions of the zoningordinance and supporting a two million bond issue for three major streetimprovements. Yarmouth. The boards zone plan was defeated but the board keeps in activetouch with the town problems and advises protecting the older residential roadsand villages by providing new ways for the through traffic needs. The boardmakes specific recommendations for playgrounds, for removing traffic hazards,for care of trees, for town forests, for fire prevention, for town parks and forregulated dumps. Public Document No. 103 Cfje CommonUieaIti) of ^a^satbmtmANNUAL REPORT Division of Housing andTown Planning FOR THE Year ending November 30, 1920 Depaetment of Public Welfaee. BOSTON WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS 32 DERNE STREET Publication of this Document approved by theSupervisor of Administration. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC AND TOWN PLANNING. RICHARD K. CONANT, Commissioner. Advisory Board. ABRAHAM C. RATSHESKY, Boston, R. BRACKETT, CROMPTON, H. McLEAN, ADA ELIOT SHEFFIELD, MARY P. H. SHERBURNE, Brookline. CONTENTS. PAGE Housing and Town Planning, 7 Housing Experiment at Lowell, 9 City and Town Planning, 10 Present Status of Boards, 10 Reports of Local Boards, 12 Library of the Division, 27 Appendix: — Law relating to zoning, 36 Law relating to boards of survey, 38 Law relating to advertising signs and de\aces ?^ithin public -view, 41 Cfte Commontoealtf) of ^a00ac&u0ett0. REPORT OF THE DIVISION OF HOUSINGAND TOWN PLANNING. HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING. The


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