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180 Mr. Eugene Kraetzer of 46 Hancock Street said he was rather surpri sed that the Savings Bank would come before the Board to ask for this. It was simply a technical error that the 100 foot frontage was not in effect at the present time. To ask the Town to cut up a lot less than the 75001 area was not good business, in his opinion. He said the neighborhood was established with good-sized lots, and he thought it would change the whole neighborhood if smaller lots were allowed there. He said that everybody wanted a garage these days, and he could not see how one could be put in for the Hancock Street house. This property is almost directly across the street from his property. He wished to express his strenuous objection. Philip M. Clark of 41 Hancock Street said he was at a loss to understand how this came before the Board of Appeals Inasmuch as the request did not conform to our Town By-laws. Two lots of 721 frontage had no standing as far as he knew. His objections were not only that the matter was not legal, but also that it would depreciate the value of property in the neighborhood. He wished to register his protest against it. Mr. F. W. Coleman of 13 Somerset Road said that he realized the position of the bank, but he questioned if they would gain enough by cutting the lot up to warrant doing It. He doubted if they would receive enough more in proportion per square foot to make it worth while. He felt that the project would be a disadvantage to the neighborhood and not in keeping With the present Zoning Law. Mr. Raymond A. Bond of 37 Somerset Road said he objected for the same reasons expressed before, and also because he did not believe it possible to erect a house on a lot with 7500 square feet that would have a value in keeping with the other property in the neighborhood. Mr. A. W. Woodruff of 24 Somerset Road said that the reasons given by Mr. Bond were his sentiments exactly. He lives across the street from the property in question, and to put up three small houses would be depreciating the value of the property around there very much. Mr. Lawrence H. Burnham of 44 Somerset Road said he would dislike seeing two lots on Somerset Road because he thought it would hurt the other property and would not blend with the development in that section. Mr. William H. Shurtlef' of 41 Somerset Road said he objected for the same reasons as the others. Mr. Lester L. Downing, of 48 Hancock Street, stated he objected for the same reasons as expressed by Mr. Kraetzer. Mr. James W. Smith of 16 Franklin Road said he objected for substantially the same reasons as expressed previously. No others wishing to be heard in opposition, the hearing was declared closed at 8:30 P.M. Mr. William R. Greeley informed the Board that Mrs. Dana McL. Greeley wished to be recorded in favor of granting the petition of Mrs. O'Keefe for permission to use the Lee property for a private.hospital. 1 1