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99 BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING January 30, 1931. A meeting of the Board of Appeals was held at the Town Office Building at 8 o'clock P.M. Messrs. Maddison, Baldrey, Custance, Slocum and Glynn were present. The meeting was called to order at 8 o'clock P.M. on the application of Roy A. Ferguson to vary the zoning law by permitting the use of land on Bertwell Rd. owned by Roy A. Ferguson to be subdivided into lots of less than 75 feet frontage, in accordance with section 6 and section 9 of the Zoning Law of the Town of Lexington, and Chapter 133 of the Acts of 1924. Ferguson' Mr. Ferguson presented a blue print of the section in petition. question, scale 1 in - 80 ft., dated July 8,'1924, recorded August 1923. Mr. Ferguson stated that Rush & Hamlin had estimates for 60 ft. frontage lot, anu. he read this letter to the Board. He stated that he would rather sell two 90 ft. lots than three 60 ft. lots. This would help the street and his house across the way. The lot in. question is 180 ft. x 146 ft, 6 in. Mr. Ferguson purchased the land in the spring of 1930. He entrusted the blue print to the Board. No one appeared in opposition to Mr. Ferguson's petition, and the hearing was declared closed. Hearing on the application of Maurice P. Ahern and John L. & Bertha V. Pichette for permission to erect and Pichette, maintain at 847-855 Mass. Ave. a 20 car garage and repair & Ahern shop and to keep, store and sell petroleum products and applicationvolatile inflammable liquids in connection therewith, and to use the premises as a public filling station for the storage, keeping and sale of gasoline in five one thousand gallon tanks with pumps was declared open at 8:20 P.M. Mr. Joseph Cotton appeared for the petitioners. He submitted'a blue print of the lot and a plan and elevations of the proposed buildings - scale 1/8 in. - 1 ft. He explained the location, and gave the location of stores across the street, and the character of the present buildings. The lot was about 90 ft. x 100 ft. within the business zone, and with the addition of the land in the rear, the lot was about 150 ft. deep. They proposed building a garage about 40 ft. x 50 ft, and a gasoline station with three pumps, five one thousand gallon tanks. He stated that there was no objection from the immediate abuttors; there would be an increase of about '::000 in taxable property. He stated that there is a traffic hazard on Mass. Avenue due to the high speed of the automobiles; the present buildings are unsightly and that the present garage is unsightly.. 1 1