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known and the conditions which will govern its zoning have been decided, it felt that gasoline filling station permits should not be granted in its probable vicinity. Consideration was also given to the fact that no plans were submitted and that the business zone at this location was originally granted by the Town upon plea that it was to be used for a golf driving range. The order was signed in the following form: The Board of Appeals, acting under General Laws, Chapter 40, sec. 27, having received a written petition addressed to it by George W. Bean, 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 Lexington Minute -Man, a newspaper published in Lexington, which hearing was held in the Selectmen's Room, in the Town Office Building on January 6, 1941. One Associate and four members of the Board of Appeals were present at the hearing. A certificate of notice is here- to annexed. At this hearing evidence was offered on behalf of the petitioner tending to show: That he wished to erect a gasoline filling station and lubritorium on his premises at 365 Bedford Street; That he had not decided what company would operate the filling station, consequently he had no definite plans to submit; That the location was approximately one quarter of a mile from an existing gasoline filling station at the corner of North Hancock and Bedford Streets; That the location would be at or near the proposed location of the Circumferential Highway, Route 128; That the premises are in a business zone. Evidence was offered on behalf of citizens opposing the granting of the said petition tending to show that the pro- perty in question had originally be zoned for business upon the representation that it was to be used for a golf driving range, and that a new location for a gasoline filling station should not be made in that vicinity until the location of the proposed Route 128 should be definitely known. At the close of the hearing the Board in private session on January 6, 1941 gave consideration to the subject of the petition and voted unanimously in favor of the following findings: 1 215