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15-1 The Board considered the application of Roy C. Peterson for permission to maintain a roadside stand for ' the purpose of selling vegetables and poultry raised on the premises at 27 Blossom Street, and voted to deny the petition in the following form: ORDER. At the close of the hearing the Board in private session on August 20, 1935, 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. 2. That the exception requested will tend to impair the status of the neighborhood. 3. That the exception requested will not be in harmoty with the general purposes and intent of the regulations in the Lexington Zoning By-law. 4. That the enforcement of the Lexington Zoning By-law as to the locus in question would not involve practical difficulty and unnecessary hardship and the relief requested may not be granted without substantial detriment to the public good and without substantially derogating from the intent and purpose of such Lexington Zoning By=law. The Board of Appeals, acting under General Laws, Chapter 40, sec. 27, having received a written petition addressed to it by Roy C. Peterson, 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 recentlocal tax list, and also advertised in the Lexington Minute -Brian, a newspaper published in Lexington, which hearing was held in the Selectmen's Room, in the Town Office Building on the 17th day of May, 1935. One associate member and four 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 Eric C. Peterson owned a large lot of land fronting on Blossom Street and on the Concord Turnpike extending on the latter road some 1600 feet; and that the petitioner ' desired to construct a building about 30' by 15' and sell products of this land from same. No persons appeared in opposition. At the close of the hearing the Board in private session on August 20, 1935, 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. 2. That the exception requested will tend to impair the status of the neighborhood. 3. That the exception requested will not be in harmoty with the general purposes and intent of the regulations in the Lexington Zoning By-law. 4. That the enforcement of the Lexington Zoning By-law as to the locus in question would not involve practical difficulty and unnecessary hardship and the relief requested may not be granted without substantial detriment to the public good and without substantially derogating from the intent and purpose of such Lexington Zoning By=law.