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41 BOARD OF APPEALS MFETING I JUNE 11th, 1934. A meeting of the Board of Appeals was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building, at 7:30 P.M. Messrs. Maddison, Glynn and Robbins were present. Mr. Hatch and Mr. Ferguson were not present. The secretary, Helen C. Whittemore, was also present. In regard to the application of James A. Guthrie for variance of the application of 6 (b) R.1 Districts of the Zoning Law, it was voted to deny the application 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 A. Guthrie, 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 Minute -Man, a newspaper published in Lexington which hearing was held in the Selectmen's Room, in the Town Office Building on the eighteenth day of May, 1934. All of the 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 the club known as the Liberty Heights Improvement Association had been in existence for several years, and had recently changed its name to the Community Club of Fast Lexington, and was an unincorporated body being simply a group of residents in the neighborhood who had organized themselves into a club for social purposes. The land was to be given to the club by Mr. Clarence MacPhee and it was hoped to raise a sufficient amount of money to provide materials and fixtures to build a club house, the labor being contributed. Evidence was offered on behalf of citizens opposing the granting of the said petition tending to show that the granting of the petition in a residential neighborhood would depreciate the value of their property, and the probable use of the club house for social affairs might result in considerable noise and become a nuisance. At the close of the hearing the Board in private session June 11th, 1934, gave consideration to the subject of the petition and voted unanimously in favor of the following findings: ' 1. That.in its judgment the public convenience and welfare will not be substantially served by the making of the exception requested.