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T 0 ' BOARD OF' APPEALS MEETING Jan. 26th, 1940. A meeting of the Board of Appeals was held in the Select- men's Room, Town Office Building, at 8:00 P.M. Chairman Maddison and Messrs. Ferguson, Glynn, Kimball and Associate member Bowker were present. The Secretary was also pre- sent. At 8:00 P.M. hearing was declared open upon the peti- tion of Haskell Reed, Executor, for permission to remove excavated fill from the land in the rear of 72 Lowell Street, Lexington. Tixe notice of the hearing, was reaC, by Mr. Glynn, who acted as Clerk Pro -tem. Mr. Haskell Reed appeared in favor of the granting of the petition. Mr. Reed said that there was a ridge running from the 'adheeler property through his property. There are a lot of small hills which he calls "camel humps". Looking from Lowell Street, his land lies between the Great Meadows and Lowell Street. M=°. Reed said that this ridge was some 500 yards from the road. He said it was not his intention to ' dig up the farm so that there would be an ugly scar, but he intended to start at grade and come down through those knobs and come out even on the other side of the ridge. Hothing has ever been grown there although the place used to be used as a pasture. The Chairman asked if there was just a growth of weeds there. Mr. Reed said that in hot weather there were just rocks. There is no loam whatsoever. Mr. Glynn asked if Mrl. Reed was going to have a shovel excavate the material and then have it taken off the premises and he replied In the affirma- tive. Mr. Glynn asked if Mr. Reed •,vas planning to put up any structures and he said that he was not. He said the material would be taken out vaith a steam shovel. Mr. Kimball asked if there would be any screening and he replied in the negative. Mr. Reed said that he did not know who was going to take the excavated fill. He had had several offers for it in the past and now he wants to.be able to remove it if he gets another offer. The Chairman said there was no telling where they would stop if some concern got in there with a steam shovel. Mr. Reed said it was not his intention to strip the property. He said his people had lived on the farm for a great many years and he hoped to continue to live there. He said that his people had always taken fill from this ridge in years gone by. Mr. Kimball asked how large a farm he had. Mr. Reed said there were 68 acres more or less and there are between ' 40 and 50 on the Lexington side of Lowell Street. There are