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134 cl� <br />Two Associate and three members of the Board of ' <br />Appeals were present at the hearing. A certificate of <br />notice is hereto annexed. At this hearing evidence was <br />offered on behalf of the petitioner tending to show: <br />That she wished to make alterations in the ten room <br />house located at 265 Bedford Street so that -it could be <br />used for two families, each apartment having five rooms <br />and located on both floors; that to accomplish this would <br />require no material change in the outside of the build- <br />ing and only minor changes to the interior; that the <br />house had been used for the occupancy of two families <br />prior to the time she purchased it in 1910, and for a <br />short time thereafter; that one of these apartments <br />would face on Bedford Street and the other on North Han- <br />cock Street. <br />A statement voicing no objections to the alterations <br />and signed by a considerable number of residents in the <br />vicinity was submitted. The Board received one letter <br />opposing the granting of the petition, and a statement <br />signed by three other residents in the immediate vicinity <br />also objecting to the granting of the petition. <br />At the close of the hearing the Board in private ' <br />session on May 24, 1940 gave consideration to the sub- <br />ject of the petition and voted unanimously in favor of <br />the following findings: <br />1. That in its judgment the public convenience <br />and welfare will be substantially served by the making <br />of the exception requested. <br />2. That the exception requested will not tend to <br />impair the status of the neighborhood. <br />3. That the exception requested will be in harmony <br />with the general purposes and intent of the regulations <br />in the Lexington Zoning By-law. <br />4. That owing to conditions especially affecting <br />the said parcel but not affecting generally the Zoning <br />district in which it is located, a literal enforcement <br />of the provisions of the Lexington Zoning By-law as to <br />the locus in question would involve substantial hard- <br />ship to the petitioner and that desirable relief may <br />be granted without substantially derogating from the <br />intent or purpose of such Lexington Zoning By-law. <br />Pursuant to the said findings, the Board hereby I <br />unanimously decides that the application of the said <br />