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245 BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING December 18, 1936 A meeting of the Board of Appeals was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building, at 8:00 o'clock P. M, Chairman Maddison and Messrs. Kimball, Glynn, Ferguson, and Robbins were present. The Secretary was also present. At 8:00 o'clock P. M. hearing was declared open upon the petition of Harry E. Johnson for permission to use Lot #37, Cary Street, Lexington, for the construction and main- tenance of a house. the notice of the hearing was read by the Clerk, Mr. Robbins. Mr. Harry E. Johnson appeared in favor of the granting of the petition. Mr. Johnson stated that Lot #37 had a front- age of seventy-two feet, and said that he wanted to build a house on the lot. The Chairman asked Mr. Johnson what reason he had for coming to the Board of Appeals on the matter, and asked if it was topographically impossible to build on the lot as it was. Mr. Johnson stated that the people next door had a lot with a frontage of only seventy-two feet, and he gave them three ' feet from his lot. Miss Diary E. Blight of 5 Cary Street stated that her lot called for a frontage of seventy-five feet, and that she had made Johnson give her that much. Mr. Glynn asked Johnson how many lots he had in all, and he said that he owned twenty-three lots. Mr. Glynn asked if Johnson had divided the land him- self, and if all lots were supposed to have $ontages of seventy-five feet each, and he replied in the affirmative. Johnson said that the lot in question had 9500 sq. ft, even though it had only a 72' frontage. He said that the sub -divi- sion was made about two years aggo. Mr. Glynn asked if Lot #37 now had a frontage of seventy-five feet, and if he wantedia take three feet of it and give it to Miss Blight, and he replied in the affirmative. Mr. Ferguson asked what the frontage was on the lot on the other side of Lot #37. Johnson said that it would have had a frontage of only seventy-two feet, but he faced it on another street. Johnson said that a Mr. Selwyn was the engineer, and that he came from Belmont. Mr. Fred Longbottom, the building Inspector, said that the development was laid out by Selwyn and that there was plenty of room for seventy-five foot frontage lots to have been laid out. He said that if Mrs. Minnie S. May would sell Johnson three feet, the matter would be straightened out satisfactorily. He ' said that Mrs. May told him that she would be willing to sell a three foot strip of land to Johnson. No other persons appeared in favor of granting the petition.