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113 BOARD OF APPEALS PER`IT The Board of'Appeals, acting under General Laws, Chapter 40, Sec. 27, having received a written petition addressed to it by Countryside, Inc., 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 xoom, in the Towrt Office Building on the 25th day of Parch, 1938, One Associate and four 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 petitioner tending to shote: That it is the owner of the present gasoline station lo- cated at the corner of +oburn and Lowell Streets; that the petitioner is also the owner of the restaurant adjoining the gasoline station on Woburn Street and is desirous of constructing a new gasoline station containing a lubritorium at 400 Lowell Street, as shown on plan submitted; that after the new building is completed they will remove the present building; and that the proposed building would be about 18' high to the peak of the ' roof, and the lubritorium room 14t x 211; the building over all would be 21t x 381, and would be constructed of water -struck brick. At the close of the hearing the Board in private session on Y'arch 25, 1938 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 re- quested. 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 Lex- ington Zoning By-law. 4. That owing to conditions especially affecting the said parcel but not affecting generally the Zoning district in which it is located, a literal enforcement of the provisions of the Lexington ZoninU B7 --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.