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BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING �'v 4 FEBRUARY 21, 1933. Joint hearing of the Board of Appeals and the Board of Selectmen was held on the application of William L. Burrill for a permit for a gasoline station and service garage and to install two tanks of 2000 gallon capacity each for gasoline and 1000 gallon tank for range oil on his property at 127 Bedford Street. Mr. Bel dreg, Clerk of the Board of Appeals read the notice of the hearing of the Board of Appeals. The Chairman of the Selectmen read the notice of the hearing of the Board of Selectmen. Mr. Burrill stated that this was a return engagement of the hearing of January 10th, after which hearing he interviewed the Board and was informed that the Board did not have the petition signed by people in the vicinity before it. He requested that the petition filed at the previous hearing be read, and the Chairman read the petition and was requested by Mr. Roy Ferguson to read the names of the persons who signed it. He stated that his purpose was to emphasize the fact that a great many of the people who live on both sides of the station and within close proximity of the proposed station. are without question in favor of the proposition,And he did not think that at the last hearing that fact was emphasized. Mr. Burrill stated that there is no place where a man could run his car in and obtain service for small repairs and that they could if a two -car garage was located in the vicinity. He also stated that he felt that those who signed the petition were not "yes or no men". He called attention to such signers as Robert H. White, Supt. of Streets in the Town for the past thirty years, the Chief of the Fire Dept.,, Edward W. Taylor, and several others who have signed his application. As far as the status of the neighborhood was concerned, he did not see how it could be impaired when across the street they have a coal yard. On the north side there is a brook around which has grown up brush and weeds and on the south side is the public works property. He explained that he knew something about the development of North Lexington because he was instrumental in holding and selling the property which is now the Lexington Manor property, and he felt the development would have been a better development if they had had the right trustee. Mr. Maddison inquired as to what would be done at the proposed station that could not be done at the other station. Mr. Burrill explained that they had this service in the various ends of the Town where a person could drive in under cover and this building would allow them to drive in under cover, while repairs were being done and this they could not do at the station at North Lexington. This building would be set back at least 46 feet from the street, and he felt 1 C 1