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219 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 show: That he had owned the original house for some twenty years and had added to the same; that it had been used up to about five years ago as a two family house; that the old portion of the house was in bad condition, and he intended to remove that portion containing about eight rooms and construct six rooms in place thereof; and inasmuch as there had been a lapse in using the house for two families, and as he desired' to make the above changes, he had petitioned the Board as set forth in his petition. A letter from a neighbor was read objecting to any change in the zone, and to a double-decker building. At the close of the hearing the Board in private session on September 9, 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 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 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 prov- isions 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 unanimously decides that the application of the said Lexington Zoning By - Law is hereby varied so far as may be necessary to permit Gustaf Nottebart to use the house at 331 Concord Avenue after it is remodelled for two families, upon the following conditions: That the exterior appearance of the Concord Avenue front of the house shall not be changed except as to the height of the same and the removal of the present "ell"; That the reconstructed portion of the house shall be on the same foundations as at present exists; That the reconstruction shall be completed on or before 9/1/39.