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231 BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING October 7, 1938. A meeting of the board of Appeals was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building, at 8:00 P. M. Chair- man Maddison, Messrs. Glynn, Ferguson, Kimball and Robbins were present. The Secretary was also present. At 8:00 P. M. hearing was declared open on the application of the Ross Realty Corp. for permission to maintain two real estate signs on Mass. Avenue and Wood Street advertising the land on which they are located. Notice of the hearing was read by Clerk Robbins. Mr. Jeremiah O'Hearn appeared representing the petitioner. He stated that the idea was to develop the strip of land located on Mass. Avenue between Old County Road and Wood Street. They would like to put two signs up and they would have to be rather large signs in order to be seen as they would have to be put in a hollow. hey plan to put one sign placed diagonally on the top of the hill facing Concord, and one sign placed diagonally near Wood Street facing Lexington. This is so people going each way could see the signs. The Chairman asked how much it was planned to develop there and Mr. O'Hearn said that for the present time it was planned to develop only the front strip along Mass. Avenue which was probably 1800 feet in length. The Chairman asked if ene sign placed properly would not be visible, and Mr. O'Hearn said that he did not believe that it would. Yr. Ferguson asked if the signs were to be lighted up at night and Mr. a'Hearn said that he did not know but did not think so. The Chairman asked how far from the ground the signs would be, and O'Hearn said that they would have to be on posts about 8' high. There being no other questions, Mr. O'Hearn retired. No one appeared in opposition. The petition of the Ross Realty Corp. for a permit for two signs on Nass. Ave. between Wood Street and Old County Road was considered, and no one opposing the granting of the petition, the Board, after considering the matter, unanimous- ly voted to grant the permit in the following form: BOARD OF APPEALS PERMIT The Board of Appeals, actin; under General Laws., Chapter 40, Sec. 27, having received a written petition addressed to it by the Ross Realty Corp., a copy of which is hereby 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 �People coming from Concord probably would pass right by it, although people going toward Concord could see it.