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i� gathering they had amplifiers there practiealljr.;r all day ' Sunday and the noise was so loud that you could sit in your room and hear the entire politeal speech. He would not like to live there the rest of his life and have that noise on Sundays. It does not happen every Sunday, however, but there is night, after night when there are parties there and there are young couples parking along Shade Street. Mr. Ryder stated that he would be perfectly willing to agree to any reasonable regulation that the Board might make. He stated that there were some very delightful parties held there but some of the parties where some people bring in their friends it was hard to control their actions. He was there himself and his family one night the whole evening for dinner and about 11 o'clock the police came and said they had been called, and although he and the family had been there all evening and had seen no evidence of trouble, and the policeman who came in unannounced, said he could find no trouble; these occasions codld hot be avoided. George Knox stated that his only objection was to the noise especially in the summer time when windows are open. Mr. Pippett also objected to the noise from the dancing. Mr. McIntosh offered the suggestion that on Saturday ' night the dancing might stop at 11:30 P.M. giving the parties a half hour to get away from the place. Mr. Ryder felt, however, that all other places close at 12 o'clock and they would not be patronized if they closed at 11:30 P.M. Mrs. Robert Fawcett inquired of Mr. Ryder if there was any dancing at the Old House or at the Hartwell Farm. mr, Ryder was not informed in that respect, but he did know that they had a reputation for serving good meals and were very desirable. Mr. John Lamont, who is empl&yed by Mr. Ryder as caretaker of his property stated that the Chief of Police sp oke to him about the two occasions of disturbance at the Club and he had taken precautions to see that nothing objectionable occurred there since that time. He felt, however, with a new family coming in to take charge of the property, it would change the situation. After considering the matters presented at the hearing, it was voted: That the petition be denied in the following form for Mahe following reasons: That under the previous permit there has resulted considerable disturbance to residents in the neighbor- hood from uses similar to the principle ones now applied for and that being a commercial use of the kind in a residential neighborhood it tends to impair the value of surrounding residential property and in the opinion of this Board it is distinctly contrary to the provisions of the Lexington Zoning By -Law as applied to R.l Districts.