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280 �c BOARD OF APPEALS PERMIT. , The Board of .Appeals, acting under General Laws, Chapter 402 See. 27, having received a written petition addressed to it by the Fuelite Natural Gas corporation 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 recent local tax list and also advertised 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 the 26th day of February, 1937. 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 pe- titioner tending to show: Mr. Walker, representing .the Fue]ite Corporation, appeared and stated that they had lived up to the conditions set forth in the permit granted February 15, 1935 and de- sired to co ntinue its present occupancy of the premises. Two letters were received from non-residents objecting to the granting of the permit. At the close of the hearing the Board in private session on February 261 1937, 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 be substantially served by the making of the exception requested. 2. That the exception requested will not tend to impair the status of the neighborhood. 3. That the exception requested will be in harmony with the general purposes and intent of the regulations in the Lexilton Zoning By-law. 4. hat owing to conditions especially affecting the said parcel but not affecting generally the Zoning dis- trict in which it is located, a literal enforcement of the provisions of the Lexington Zoning By-law as to the locus in question would involve substantial hardship to the petitioner and that desirable relief may be granted without substantially derogating from the intent or purpose of such Lexington Zoning By-law. Pursuant to the said findings, the Board hereby unani- mously decides that the application of the said Lexington Zoning By-law is hereby varied so far as may be necessary ' to permit the premises at 311-315 Marrett Road to be occupied by the kuelite Natural Gas Corporation, only, for the purpose