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April 27, 2006 Minutes 2 DRAFT MINUTES of the Lexington Zoning Board of Appeals April 27, 2006 Present: Chairman — Judith J. Uhrig, John J. McWeeney, Maura L. Sheehan, Arthur C. Smith and Daniel A. Lucas Petition Address: 73 Allen Street The relief sought is for a variance from 135 -35, Table 2, Dimension Control of the Town of Lexington Zoning By -laws to allow side set back of 12.5 -feet to the front left corner and 7.5 feet to the rear left corner instead of the required 15 -feet to construct a garage. The Chairman opened the hearing at 7:55 PM by reading the legal notice and described information received from the petitioner relative to the petition. Prior to the hearing, the petition and supporting data were reviewed by the Building Commissioner, Conservation Administrator, Town Engineer, Health Director, Zoning Enforcement Officer, Planning Board and Selectmen's Office. A comment was received from Conservation saying that a permit was obtained for a second story and front porch only. It did not include permit for a garage. They will need to file with conservation to construct a garage and will need to control run -off with a dry well or other engineered detail. Mary Trudeau presented the petition for the owners of the property, Eric and Joyce Wu who also attended the hearing. Ms. Trudeau said the petitioner planned on going to conservation if they received the Variance. They felt the hardship was the shape of the buildable area and the conservation issues with the property. The garage will be set back to meet the conservation's 55 -foot set back requirement. The Board had the following questions: 1. Is there a residence area over garage? First floor will be for parents and the area of the garage will be a bonus room. 2. What is the present use? It is a short-term rental. They are 9 month to a year from being able to move there so they will rent it until they can move in. 3. There is a one -car garage there already? The current garage will be incorporated into living area. 4. Have they considered extending current garage? The current garage is already non- conforming to the wetlands. 5. Have you talked with your immediate neighbors about garage? Their garage would be next to the proposed garage. John Hopkins of 69 Allen Road asked to clarify the design of the garage.