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7 ' behalf of the petitioner tending to show; That Robert C. and Gordon P. Merriam own the house at 6 Stetson Street; that over a period of six years they have been trying to dispose of it as a single family residence, or to rent it as such; that they have been able to rent it only a year and one-half of that time and have found no purchaser for the property; that It has become a considerable expense to maintain, and they therefor wish to alter the house into a two family residence for which they believe there is a demand; that they had interviewed the abutters and immediate neighbors and found very little objection to the proposed changes. Evidence was offered on behalf of citizens opposing the granting of the said petition tending to show that the altering of this house into a two family residence would create a precedent in the neighborhood, where there are other houses Mich might later be entitled to the same treatment, and that it was felt that it would eventually lead to a considerable change in this single family residence neighborhood, and that such change would be detrimental to other single family residences, and depreciate the.values of such property, At the close of the hearing the Board in private session on October 6, 1939 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 relief 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. Pursuant to the said findings, the Board hereby denies the said petition of Robert C. and Gordon P. Merriam to alter the one family dwelling at 6 Stetson Street to accommodate more than one family. In arriving at this decision, the Board has taken into consideration the fact that there are in the neighborhood other residences the owners of which might eventually wish to have them treated in like manner, and ' accordingly there should not be set a precedent which might lead to considerable depreciation of value of single family residences throughout this general locality.