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BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING JANUARY 20, 1933. 1 The Board of Appeals met at the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building, on Friday, January 20, 1933, Messrs. Maddison, Glynn, Custanoe, Slocum and Baldrey were present. The Secretary was also present. The records of the meeting of November 18, 1932 were approved. The records of the meetings of,January 6 and 10, 1933 were also approved. In reference to the application of James R. Smith for permission to maintain an office building on the strip of land at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Tower Street, on motion of Theodore A. C ustance it was voted unanimously that Mr. Smith be not allowed to place the building on the land. Mr. Baldrey suggested that Mr. Smith put the sign back. Mr. Glynn offered a motion that the petition of James R. Smith be granted for the sign subject to a set back of twenty feet from Massachusetts Avenue, for a period of two years. Mr, Custance offered a substitute motion "That the Board ' approve the maintenance of the sign in the present location as now located for a period of not more than two years from December 31, 1932", The substitute motion was passed by vote of the Board. The Board signed the order denying the application for the office building in the following form: The Board of Appeals, acting under General Laws, Chapter 40, sec. 27, having received a written petition addressed to it by James R. Smith 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 Townsman, a newspaper published in Lexington, which hearing was held in the Selectmen's Room, in the Town Office Building on Friday the 6th day of January 1933 at 8:00 o'clock P.M. All of the members of the Board of Appeals were present at the hearing, After hearing the evidence offered by the petitioners and such other evidence as was offered, the Board in private ' session at a meeting held January 20, 1933 gave consideration to the subject of the petition and a majority of the Board voted that in its judgment the public convenience and welfare will not be substantially served by the use of the premises described in the petition and that such use may tend to impair the status of the neighborhood, insofar as it relates