Re: Rt 30 Dow site?

[Bill Piacentini <billpi@ll.mit.edu>]

>At 09:39 PM 6/19/97 +0000, you wrote:
>
>>The former Dow site is north of Route 30; east of Oak St.; and west of the
>>Natick town line.
>
>Don't you mean north of Rt 30, east of Rice Rd, and west of the Natick line?

Sorry, for the delay. I was gone 17 days and have 268 messages waiting!
You are absolutely correct. The name of "Rice Road" I had forgotten. Oak
St. in Natick does become Oak St. in Wayland; and then becomes Rice Rd.
when it crosses Commonwealth Rd.(Route 30).


>According to the detailed map of greater Framingham I'm looking at, the name
>of Oak St changes to Rice Rd when the street crosses Route 30 (or possibly
>when it crosses into Wayland from Natick). I never knew that there was any
>land zoned for industrial uses in Wayland. Anyhow, if Fairbanks is still
>proposing a three-tower array on an east-west line, it looks as if there is
>enough land there. (Of course, I haven't been out there to look for houses
>and such :-) The area bounded on the south by Route 30, on the west by Rice
>Rd, on the north by Wayland Hill Rd, and on the east by the Natick line
>appears to measure over 2000 ft from west to east. The three-tower array
>that Fairbanks proposed at Mt Wayte Ave would have required 683 ft from the
>tip of the ground system of the west tower to the tip of the ground system
>for the east tower, assuming that the ground system wasn't cut short to fit
>the property, which is often the case.
>
(snip)

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