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-N 0 T I -C E Lexington Board of Zoning Appeals. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Appeals of Lexington appointed under General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 27, will give a hearing in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building on the 10th day of September, 1931, at 8 o'clock P.M., on the petition of Finlay McIsaac of 38 Charles Street,-exington, that the Board vary the application of section 9 of the Lexington Zoning By-law by permitting the following: The construction of a building on lot 28, and dividing of lot 29, one-half to be added to lot 28 and the other half to lot 30, these lots being 38 Charles Street, Lexington, Mass. Arthur N. Maddison Chairman, Board of Appeals. The Board considered the application of Mary A. McNamara and voted to pass the following order: The Board of Appeals, acting under General Laws Chapter 40, sec. 27, having received a written petition addressed to it by Mary A. McNamara 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 publiehed in Lexington which hearing was held in the Select- men's Room, in the Town Office Building on October 2, 1931. All members of the Board of Appeals were present at the haring. A certificate of notice is hereto annexed. At this hearing evidence was offered on behalf of the petitioner tending to show: .that he, being the husband of Mary A. McNamara, petitioner, had greenhouses on the Valley Road side of his property which extends from Valley Road to Bedford Street and was desirous of constructing a show room for the sale of flowers and plants grown in his greenhouses; that he desired to construct such building in the shape of a flower pot fourteen (14)• feet in diameter with a conservatory adjoihing, about seventy-five (75) feet by fifteen (15) feet on Bedford Street. fronting oma. his lot seventy-five (755 io one hundred feet from the street line, using a right of way for entrance thereto. Evidence was Offered on behalf of citizens opposing • the granting of the said petition tending to show; that the proposed use was a definite business in an R. 1 District and that Bedford Street in front of the location is in a school zone with very heavy traffic which would tend to make it a very dangerous place for cars to enter and leave the right of way.