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253 BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING 1 JANUARY 8, 1937. A meeting of the Board of Appeals was held in the Town Office Building, Lexington, at 8:00 o'clock. Chairman Maddison and Messrs. Glynn, Kimball, and Associate Member John A. Lyons were present. The Secretary was also present. At 8:00 o'clock P.M. hearing was declared open upon the application of Katherine B. Kinneen for permission to construct and maintain porches and steps at #136 and #156 Vine Street, Lexington. Mr. Kimball.was appointed Clerk Pro -tem. The notice of the hearing was read by the Clerk Pro. tem. Mr. and Mrs. Kinneen and their two daughters were present. Mrs. Kinneen stated that she had applied for permission to construct the parches in order to protect her floors. She said that the water poured in the front doors when it stormed. The Chairman asked how wide she would want to build a porch. Mrs. Kineen said that at #136 Vine Street the per ah would be six feet wide and twelve feet in length, and at #156 it would be four feet wide and eight feet long. ' The Chairman asked if that would include the .steps, and she said that the steps would be in addition. Mr. Glynn asked if the steps would occupy the same amount of room that they do now, and she said that they would, but that there would be two steps in each instance instead of three. She said that the present landing would be the floor of the new porch. The Chairman said that under the Zoning Law any new structure is supposed to set back twenty feet from the line, and no alterations can be made to a house built prior to 1924, but under certain conditions the Board of Appeals may vary that where topographir or other conditions make it nee" essary. The idea of the porch would of course be to keep out the weather and the rain. He said that what the Board had to do was to consider conditions that would make it necessary to grant the deviation from the Zoning Law, Mrs. Kinneen said that there was a register right inside the front door and at times the storm came in and went down into the f ire. Mr. Joseph Vaughan stated that he would like to see the petition granted. He said that although the street` was vdry narrow, if it was widened it should be widened on the other side. Mr. Hans Sorenson stated that he was in favor of the ' granting of the petition. Mrs. Kinneen presented a statement signed by fifteen property owners in the vicinity stating that they saw no objection to granting the petition.