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262 1 The Chairman asked if it was the intention of the applicant to sell cars on the premises. Mr. Partridge said that if some one came into the place and wanted to buy a car, they did not want to have to refuse them, but there would be no show room or anything like that. He said that the entrance was from Marrett Road, The Chairman asked how much unoccupied land there was in back of the building. Partridge said there was,a parcel 40 feet by 160 feet. The Chairman asked if there was any intention of displaying signs, and Mr. Partridge said that there was not. Mr. Johnson said that he had been looking for addi- tional storage facilities and also a place that would be suitable for the reconditioning of used cars. He would like to have the privilege of using the yard in the day- time for workmen to leave their cars. He said the entrance of the building did not face on any street, but faced on a vacant lot. He asked Mrs..Partridge to put the in the word "sales" as he did not want to be penalized by not being allowed to sell. It would not be a garage in the sense of the word. The Chairman asked if any of the remodelling work would be done out in the yard, and Nor. Johnson replied in the negative. The Chairman asked if there would be , storage of any sort in the yard, and Mr. Johnson said he would like to be able to leave his employee's cars there and probably some other cars would be stored there. The Chairman asked how many cars he thought would be outside during the day, and Johnson said he believed ten would be a lot, and at night whatever was outside would be moved under cover. He said he had never kept any junk around his premises and would not do so here. The Chairman asked if the place would be open Sunday or evenings, and Mr. Johnson replied in the negative. Mr. Robert H. Eldridge stated that he hated to oppose this, but he was Chairman of his precinct and he felt that he represented the members. He said that he lived three hundred or four hundred yards from the corner and several people had called him up and said that they thought a permit of this kind would not be a good thing for the lo- cality. There are two gasoline stations and a service station there now, and he believed a permit of this kind would not improve the location. He said that the neigh- borhood was residential, although this.corner was in the business zone. He had heard that a real estate man came out and said that the district was going down and that distressed him very much. He said that he was opposed on the grounds of the other people. He.said that there were cars and trucks parked around the premises. He said ,