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228 The Board of Appeals, acting under General Laws 'hapter 40, Sec. 27, having received a written petition addressed to it by W. B. Lawrence, 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 Room, in the Town Office Building on September 16, 1938. One Associate and three 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 petitionertending to show: That he wished to store and display for sale automobile trailers at 916 Waltham Street, at the .corner of Concord Ave., using only that portion of the property which was within the C. 1 District; That he expected to have 7 or 8 trailers in storage at one time; That there was no building upon the property within which they could be housed, nor was it his purpose to erect any such building;. That the business of displaying and selling them would be carried on until approximately nine P. M. in the evening, and that he would wish to continue sales on Sundays. Evidence was offered on behalf of citizens opposing the granting of the said petition tending to show: That in their opinion such a use would tend to depreciate the value of their residential property in the vicinity. At the close of the hearing the Board in private session on September 16, 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 not be substantially served by the making of the exception requested. 2. That the exception requested will tend to impair the status of the neighborhood. 3. That the exception requested will not be in harmony with the general purposes and intent of the regulations in the Lexington Zoning By-law. 4. That the enforcement of the Lexington Zoning By -Law as to the locus in question would not involve practical difficulty and unnecessary hardship and the rel-ief requested may not be granted without substantial detriment to the public good and without substantially derogating from the intent and purpose of such Lexington Zoning By-law. Paoli 1