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Canton Town Meeting — 2003 STM

Town Meeting · Record year 2003 · Record lf-28090

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Norfolk, ss

To the Constables of the Town of Canton,

Greetings:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify
and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Canton to meet in the Morse Auditorium,
Building B, Canton High School on Washington Street in said town on

                      MONDAY THE TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY
                             OF JANUARY, 2003

at seven o'clock in the evening for a special town meeting at which time and place the
following articles are to be acted upon:


Article 1     To see if the town will vote to amend the zoning by-law, as most
recently amended, to allow certain recreational uses to be permitted on a lot in a
limited industrial zoning district by inserting into the zoning by-law a new section,
as follows:

    Section 2.15.2E - In a Limited Industrial District, the Board of
    Appeals may, in a specific case, issue a special permit for a
    recreational use. For purposes of this section, the words
    "recreational use" shall include, but are not to be limited to indoor or
    outdoor sports and fitness facilities; playing fields; picnic areas; and
    facilities for the sale and serving of food, health products and
    beverages in relation to recreational use.

or to take any other action in relation thereto.
Paul Schneiders

Article 2       To see if the town will vote to amend the town’s zoning map, as most
recently amended, by changing the ten (10) parcels of land located along Royall
Avenue and Davenport Avenue, described on the board of assessors Map 69, as Lots
7, 8, 9 , 10, 11, 12. 13, 14, 15 and 16 from a Residential Zoning District C to a
Business Zoning District, as shown on a map attached hereto, or take, any other
actions in relation thereto.
Paul Schneiders

Article 3      To see what action the town will take after hearing the report of the school
committee and the building renovations committee concerning the plans to renovate and
enlarge the high school building complex, including to see if the town will vote to
authorize an increase in the gross amount which may be expended and which may be

borrowed by the town and to see what other, if any, guidance and direction the town will
give to the school committee and the buildings renovation committee concerning
renovations and new construction or, to take any other action in relation thereto.
School Committee and Buildings Renovation Committee

Article 4       To see if the town will vote to appropriate from any available funds any
sum or sums of money to pay any unpaid bills of any prior fiscal year, or to take any
other action in relation thereto.

Article 5      To see if the town will vote to accept the provisions of paragraph (h) of
section 103 of chapter 32 of the General Laws (as inserted by chapter 456 of the acts of
1998) which will equalize the cost of living adjustment made to retired employees (or
their spouse or other beneficiary) who are receiving a contributory pension and to those
who are receiving a non-contributory pension, or to take any other action in relation
thereto.


       And you are hereby directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies at the
Post Office and at not less than six other public places at least twenty-one days before the
day the said meeting is held.

       Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to
the town clerk before the day the said meeting is held.

       Given under our hands and seals this twenty-third day of December in the year
two thousand and two..


Board of Selectmen,
Town of Canton


       ________________________________________
       John J. Connolly, Chair


       ________________________________________
       Victor DelVecchio, Vice-Chair


       ________________________________________
       Avril T. Elkort, Clerk