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ZG BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING C� JULY 52 1932. A joint meeting of the Board of Appeals and the Board of Selectmen was held in the Selectments Room, Town Office G:";3` Building at 8:15 P.M. Messrs. Custance, Baldrey, Slocum and Glynn were present. C. E. Glynn was elected temporary Chairman. The hearing was declared open on the application of Thomas J. Hayes for permission to use the premises now owned by Mary S. Valentine at 1698 Mass. Avenue for a gasoline filling station, to sell gasoline, oil, and petroleum products. The Clerk read the notice of the hearing. The petitioner was represented by Judge Pierre Northrup who explained that no definite plans had been made to show the intended installation, that the property was under option to buy, subject to the granting of the requested permit, and would eventually be owned by a company whose name was not divulged. No one else spoke in favor of the application. Objections were voiced by several citizens who are residents on Vine Brook -Road, also adjacent business property owners tending to show that it would injure residential property values on the adjacent section of Vine Brook Road; that there is no public necessity for additional gasoline filling stations in this locality; that it would detract from the good appearance of the Town. The hearing was declared closed, and the,Board of Appeals adjourned to the Conference Room, where the Board considered the application and it was voted that the petition be denied in the following form: The Board of Appeals, acting under General Laws Chapter 40, sec. 27, having redeived a written petition addressed to it by Thomas J. Hayes, 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 July 5, 1932 at 8;15 P.M. Messrs. Custance Baldrey, Slocum and Glynn, members of the Board of Appeals, were present at the hearing. A certificate of notice is hereto annexed. At this hearing evidence was offered on behalf of the petitioner tending to show; that he wishes to establish a gasoline filling station on the property opened by Mary S. Valentine at 1698 Mass. Ave; that the petitioner holds an option on the property which will be exercised if permit is granted; that the ultimate owner would be an unnamed , company now engaged in similar business. Evidence was offered on behalf of citizens opposing the granting of the said petition tending to show that it would