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13 ' BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING June 23, 1939. A meeting of the Board of Appeals was held in the Seledtmen's Room, Town Office Building at 8:00 P. M. Mr. Glynn and the Secretary were present. At 8:00 P. M. hearing was declared open upon the application of Howard M. Munroe for permission to maintain a children's riding school and pony track at the corner of Woburn and Lowell Streets. Mr. Glynn read the notice of the hearing. Mr. Munroe, Mr. Barber (the operator of the school) and another man appeared. Mr. Munroe said that they would like to have the permit granted as in the past few years. He said they had two signs, and that cars had not parked on the road. The Chairman asked if they had had any complaints from the neighbors, and Mr. Barber replied in the negative. He said they closed every evening at 8:00 P. M. The Chair- man asked if they had lived up to the conditions of the permit, and Mr. Barber said that they had. They retired. ' No persons appeared in opposition. Messrs. Locke, Ferguson, Robbins and Kimball wishing to be recorded in favor, the petition was granted in the following form: BOARD OF APPEALS PERMIT The Board of Appeals, acting under General Laws, Chapter 40, Sec. 27, having received a written petition addressed to it by Howard M. Munroe, 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 Lex- ington Minute Man, a newspaper published in Lexington, which hearing was held in the Selectmen's Room, in the Town Office Building on the 23rd day of June, 1939. One member of the Board of Appeals was 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 desired to maintain the pony riding school for children on the premises located on the southerly side of ' Woburn Street about one hundred and fifty feet (1501) from the junction of Woburn and Lowell Streets, in the same manner as in previous years.