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125 ' BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING May 24, 1940. A meeting of the Board of Appeals was held in the Select- men's Room, Town Office Building,'at 7:30 P. M. Chairman Glynn, and Messrs. Locke, Kimball, Brown and Bowker were presant. the Secretary was also present. In the absence of Mr. Robbins, Mr. Locke acted as Clerk. At 7:30 P. M. hearing was declared open upon the appli- cation of Mrs. Alexander Parks for permission to alter the dwelling located at 265 Bedford Street, Lexington, so as to accommodate two families. The notice of the hearing was read by Clerk Locke. Mr. Joseph A. Parks was the only person present at the hearing. He said he represented his mother. When his father purchased the place in 1910 there were two families living in the house. He said that the place had been built partly to accommodate two families, and that there were six outside doors. There are ten rooms, two cellar stairs, but only one bathroom. There is one front door on North Hancock Street and another door on Bedford Street. ' The present laundry will be made into a kitchen. Parks said that he could not sell the house now, but thought he could if there were two apartments. Mr. Parks presented a paper signed by twenty-five neighbors who had no objection to the change. He said that all but one family that could see the house had signed the paper. .The Chairman asked if there would be any change in the entrances, and he replied in the negative. The Chairman asked how large a lot he had, and he said that he had approximately one quarter of an acre. He said that the majority of the neighbors thought it would be better to have two families in there. The Chairman informed Mr. Parks that the Board had received a paper signed by four families objecting to the change. He asked Mr. Parks if he intended to rent both apartments, and Parks said that perhaps his mother would take one of them, and rent the other one. Or, he said, his brother or himself might take one apartment. The hearing was declared closed at 7:45 P. M. The records of the meeting held on May 17 were declared approved. At 8:00 P. M. hearing was declared open upon the application I of Frank A. & Mary Napoli for permission to maintain the exis- ting roadside stand on Marrett Road about two hundred feet