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213 BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING ' OCTOBER 20, 1936. At 8:15 P.M. hearing was declared open upon the petition of Calvin PJ. Childs for permission to maintain a gasoline filling station with six underground tanks with a capacity of 5,000 gallons each at the property located at the junction of Watertown Street and the new Concord Turnpike. This was a joint hearing before the Board of Appeals and the Board of Selectmen. Chairman Maddison, Mr. Glynn, Mr. Robbins and Assoc. Member Lyons were present, and also Mr. Ferguson, who is a member of the Board of Appeals as well as Chairman of the Board of Selectmen. The Selectmen's notice of the hearing was read by the Chairman. The Board of Appeals' notice of the hearing was read by the Clerk, Mr. Robbins. Calvin tN. Childs stated that he was desirous of erect- ing a filling station and would like a permit to store gas- oline. He has requested permission for six 5,000 gallon tanks and planned to have five pumps and thought it would be better to install six to nks in case he should want to add another pump later on. lir. Glynn asked Mr. Childs if he would own the whole ' piece of land as a C.l District and Mr. Childs replied in the affirmative. Mr. Maddison stated that the hearing be- fore the Board of Appeals was to see whether or not -the Zoning Law could be waived so as to permit the maintenance of a gasoline filling station,. Mr. Glynn asked Mr. Childs if he contemplated any other use for the land other than for the erection of a filling station and he said that he did not. Mr. Glynn asked Mr. Childs if he would be willing to sign an agreement such as the Town Counsel might draw up to the effect that he would not use any of the parcel in question for any other business save that of a gasoline filling station if he received a permit. Mr. Childs stated that signing such an agreement might involve a great many complications and he did not want to say now that he would sign such an agreement. Mr. Neil H. Borden stated that he had called Mr. Childs and the question he put to him warp if the Town should adopt a Zoning By-law for a gasoline zone such as outlined in the report of the Planning Board, would he be willing to have his property come under such a zone and be classed as a C.2 District. Mr. Glynn said that Mr. Child's land was now the same as any business district in the Town but that a filling ' station was not allowed except upon the granting of a permit by the Board of Appeals, and the question now was whether or not it would be better for the Town to limit the property for the use of a filling station. Mr. Borden said that he felt sorry to see a fillinm station erected in front of his house