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17 MEETING - AUGUST 18, 1929. A meeting of the Board of Appeals was held at the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building at 8 P.M. Messrs. Roland W. Baldrey, Theodore A. Custance, C. Edward Glynn, and Arthur N. Maddison were present. Helen C.Whittemore was also present. Town Counsel, Syd ey R. Wrightington was also present. The Board took up the refusal of the appeal of Minnie B. Stevenson. Mr. C. Edward Glynn moved that the petition of Minnie B. Stevenson for permission to use a lot located on Vine Brook Road which contains less than 7,500 square feet in area to build a dwelling thereon, be denied. Stevenson The Board discussed the matter from va^ious angles. hearing. The question of establishing a building line on Waltham Street and Vine Brook Road over the business district was also considered. The Board felt that this was some- thing that the Planning Board should consider. After consideration the Board voted to deny the petition of Minnie B. Stevenson and passed the following order: The Board of Appeals, acting under General Laws, Chapter 40, sec. 27, having received a written petition Order. addressed to it by Minnie B. Stevenson, a copy of which is hereto annexed, held a public hearing thereon of which notice was mailed to the petitioner and to the owners of all property deemed by the Board to be affected thereby as they appear on the most recent local tax list, and also advertised in the Lexington Times - Minute Man, a newspaper published in Lexington, which hearing was held in the Selectmen's Room in the Town Office Building on the 26th day of July 1929 at 8:00 o'clock P.M. A majority of the members of the Board of Appeals were present at the hearing. A certificate of notice is hereto annexed. At a meeting of the Board duly called and held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building on August 1, 1929 at eight P.M., at which a majority of the Board were present, further evidence was received from the petitioner. At these hearings evidence was offered on the part of the petitioner tending to show that the petitioner, owning a large lot sold the major portion of it and recorded the deed after completion of the publication of the amended Zoning Law and that he had not reserved for himself sufficient land to provide the frontage and area re- quired for a lot in a residential district under the amended Zoning Law. At a meeting of the Board duly called and held in the Selectmen's Room of the Town Office Building on August 16, 1929 at 7:30 P.M. at which a majority of the Board were present, the Board in private session gave consideration to the subject of the petition and voted unanimously in favor of the following findings: