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c^ BOARD OF APPEALS ITEETTNG ' September 10, 1937 A meeting of the Board of Appeals was held in the'Sel- ectmen's Room, Town Office Building, at 8:00 P. M. Chair- man Yaddison, Mr. Robbins, and Associate Members Locke and Lyons were present. The secretary was also present. At 8:00 P. M* hearing was declared open upon the appli- cation of Esther R. Barnes et als for permission to maintain a private hospital and sanatorium for convalescing and re- tarded children at 1557 Mass. Ave., Lexington. The notice of the hearing was read by Clerk Robbins. Mr. & Mrs. O'Keefe, the tenants of the property, and Judge Pierre Northrup, representing Mrs. Barnes, were present at the hearing. Judge Northrup said that he represented the Barnes heirs. He said that Dr. Eley was a child specialist and that it was his intention to conduct on the premises � hospital or sana- torium for the care of little children. here are four children there now, and the limit would probably be eight, They are about three years of age, He said that the place , would be operated by Mrs. Lila U. O'Keefe, and it would have to be licensed by the Commonwealth. He said that Mrs. OtKeefe would run the place for Dr. Eley. He has inspected the house and told the Board that it had been fixed up very nicely. Judge Northrup said that Mrs. OtKeefe had been in Arlington for a number of years, in a residential zone, and there never was a complaint. Judge Northrup said that although the Barnes -property was in a residential zone, the Board must admit ihat it should be business property. Sometime after the Cary Mem- orial Building was finished, Northrup was informed that the Board of Selectmen came to Dr. Barnes and told him that it did not like to have stores right next to the building, and Dr. Barnes voluntarily agreed to put it in a residential zone. Judge Northrup said that there was business on all sides of the property. He said that even if it was strictly residential, he could not see how there would be any objection. Judge Northrup invited the Board to go down and look at the place. He said he believed that people ought to be en- titled to use their property in any way they wanted to, pro- vided it was not detrimental to the Town or any individual. He thought that the character of the neighborhood would warrant the use of the property for even more than that which they wanted to use it for. He said that it was a two family house, and it has been used as such constantly up until . Dr. Barnest death.