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292 BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING April 7, 1939 A meeting of the Board of Appeals was held in the Sel- ectmen's Room, Town Office Building, at 8;00 P. P,F. Acting Chairman C. Edward Glynn, and Messrs. Charles E. Ferguson and Errol H. Locke were present. The Secretary was also present. At 8:00 P. M. hearing was declared open on the applica- tion of Clarence H. and Anne B. Conroy for permission to maintain a house not set back the required twenty feet from the street line, at 3 Summit Road, Lexington, Mass. Mr. Conroy and the Building Inspector were present at the hearing. Bir. Conroy said that he discovered accidentally that a corner of his house was not back 201 from the street line. About three years ago he purchased the land at the corner of Summit and Follen. Roads, and engaged his own engineer to establish the lines. The engineers were the C. H. Gannett Co. When he purchased the lot he was going to put the house so that it would face Follen Road, but after studying the elevations, he found that the only way he could do it, with the topography of the land, was to put it cornerwise. He therefor had to set�ack twenty feet from both Follen and Summit Roads. They used every precaution they knew of to prevent anything from going wrong. Recently he discovered that a corner of the house was back only 191, but he dis- puted the Engineer that told him because he had been so careful. He engaged an engineer again, who reported that the corner of the house was 19.21 from the street line, and the corner of the garage was 19.731 from the street line. There is an error of about .281 at the corner, and .801 at the other point. Mr. Conroy said his intention was to obey the spirit of the law. The Chairman asked who the contractor on the house was, and he said that he himself was the general contractor,, and William A. Cann did the excavation work. 1'he Chairman asked Mr. longbottom if it was his im- pression that the house had been set back the full 201, and Mr. Longbottom replied in the affirmative. The Chairman asked what had brought this matter to Mr. Conroy►s attention now, and he replied that he was arranging with a Boston bank to re -finance his house, and they sent out an engineer who discovered this error. He said that he talked with his neighbors about the matter, and they said it was a trivial matter, as far as they were , concerned.