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188 ry Mr. Leslie J. Wood of 196 Woburn Street appeared in opposition. He said that Mr. Etter purchased the Harlow property seven or eight years ago and turned it ' into a two family house without a permit. When he out up the property he cut it into lots smaller than the Building & Zoning Laws permit. He said that there was no head room in the barn where the three rooms were built. He asked if there was not a State law preventing one entrance being used by more than one family. Mr. Wood said that when the Zoning Law went into effect he had his land practially sold, but the man would not purchase it on account of the Zoning Laws, and that he still owns the property. He said that the Zoning Law was not being enforced at all in this locality and that practically all of Woburn Street was being used for two family houses. The hearing was declared closed at 8:35 P.M. The Chairman asked Mr. Longbottom what his under- standing of the matter was at the present time, and if the woman was just using the bedroom and living room upstairs. He replied that she was not using either at the present time, and that he had never had any evidence that the house was being used for a two family dwelling. The Chairman said that if the woman was going to do her cooking downstairs, and was going to sleep and live upstairs, he would call her a boarder. He said that what had been done so far was in no way a violation of any Zoning Regulation. If the Board did not grant the permit, there was no reason why Mrs. Miller could not ' live in the house. He said that he thought it was a matter in which Longbottom should use his own discretion. The Chairman stated that this was a small seven -room house, not too big to be occupied by single family. There seemed to be no reasonable necessity for its being changed Into a two family dwelling. Mr. Lyons moved that the application be denied, in the following form: The Board of Appeals, acting under General Laws, Chapter 40, See. 27, having received a written petition addressed to it by James M. Etter, 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 deemec by the Board to be affected thereby as they appear on the most recent local tax list, and also ad- vertised 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 Thursday, July 16, 19360 at 8:15 P.M. One associate and three 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 in the , single family house located at 197 Woburn Street (rear) he had caused to have finished three rooms on the second floor for the purpose of accommodating his sister-in-law,