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0 <br />tBOARD OF APPEALS PERMIT <br />The Board of Appeals, acting under General Laws, <br />Chapter 40, Sec. 27, having received a written petition <br />addressed to it by Howard Munroe, a copy of which is <br />hereto annexed, held a public hearing thereon of which <br />notice was mailed to the petitioner and to the owners of <br />all property deemed by the Board to be affected thereby <br />as they appear on the most recent local tax list and also <br />advertised in the Lexington Minute -Man, a newspaper <br />published in Lexington, which hearing was held in the <br />Selectmen's Room, in the Town Office Building on the 18th <br />day of July, 1941. <br />One 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 he desired to maintain the pony riding school <br />for children on the premises located on the southerly <br />side of Woburn Street about one hundred and fifty feet <br />(150') from the junction of Woburn Street and Lowell <br />Street, in the same manner as in previous years. <br />No persons appeared in opposition. <br />At the close of the hearing the Board in private session <br />on July 18, 1941 gave consideration to the subject of the <br />petition and voted unanimously in favor of the following <br />findings: <br />1. That in its judgment the public convenience and <br />welfare will be substantially served by the making of the <br />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 the <br />said parcel but not affecting generally the Zoning district <br />in which it is located, a literal enforcement of the pro- <br />visions of the Lexington. Zoning By-law as to the locus in <br />question would involve substantial hardship to the petitioner <br />and that desirable relief may be granted without substan- <br />ti ally derogating from the intent or purpose of such Lex- <br />ington Zoning By-law. <br />Pursuant to the said findings, the Board hereby <br />unanimously ,decides that the application of the said Lex- <br />ington Zoning By-law is hereby varied so far as may be <br />necessary to permit the above property to be occupied for <br />