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208 BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING August 12, 1938 A meeting.of the Board of Appeals' was held in the Sel- ectmen's Room,'Town Office Building, at 8:00 P. M. Messrs. Glynn, Robbins, Kimball, Ferguson, and Associate Member Wm. H. Driscoll were present. The Secretary was also present. In the absence of Mr. Maddison, Mr. Glynn was elected Chairman Pro -tem. At 8:00 P. M. hearing was declared open upon the petition of Lila L. O'Keefe for permission to maintain a private hos- pital for convalescent and retarded children at 20 Lincoln Street, Lexington. The notice of the hearing was read by Clerk Robbins. Mrs. O'Keefe was represented by Robert L. Ryder. Mr. Ryder said he assumed that the members were familiar with the proposition, because the O'Keefes were now occupying Town property under a permit granted by the Board of Appeals. He said that until three weeks ago he did not know there was such a place in the Town, and'he goes up and down Mass. Ave. a great deal. The O'eefes have occupied the Barnes property for over a year and from the appearance outside no one would know that it was a hospital. What they are trying to do is to conduct a private home in which they take care of children which have been sent to them by doctors co-operating with them. Mrs. O'Keefe conducted a similar home in Arlington 2E years before she came here. The Town has asked them to vacate as the Town purchased that property to use it for Town purposes, and it has now become necessary that they have it. Mrs. O'Keefe came to him about three weeks ago and said she was looking for a place but was unable to find one. They looked at the Ryder property on Lincoln Street before but thought it was too large and was not in such repair that they would want it. Ryder told them what he would do in the way of improvements, and they finally said that they would take it. Mrs. O'Keefe graduated from the Lowell Training School and had six years training in the Children's Hospital. Ryder said he had been through the home she is conducting, and he could not see how anyone could object to it in any neighborhood. They have no signs and do not intend to have any. The limit is ten children, none over ten years of age. Mr. O'Keefe went to all of the neighbors, and he presented a paper signed by twelve neighbors stating that they had no objection to the home. He said the new location was more secluded than where they are now. Ryder said that the Zoning 1 1 1