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• BOARD OF APPEALS METING October 30, 1942 A meeting of the Board of Appeals was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building, at 8:00 P. M. Chairman Glynn and Messrs. Bowker and Nickerson, and Associate Pi?embers Redman and Ballard were present. The Clerk was also present. At 8:00 P. M. hearing was declared open upon the petition of Ernest DeVincent for permission to construct a roadside stand for the sale of produce and products of the lands of the petitioner at the junction of the Concord Turnpike and Pleasant Street. The notice of the hearing was read by Yr. Bowker. Mr. Ernest DeVincent and his son, Henry, and Mr. Robert L. Ryder, their attorney, were present at the hearing. 11r. Ryder said that a similar petition had been brought by a member of the DeVincent family a year ago, and that it was denied. The property now stands in the name of Ernest DeVincent, a resident of Lexington for some thirty-five years. He owns this land, and another farm on Waltham Street containing six acres. The DeVincents have been farmers all their lives, and have farmed these lands for many years, and are farming them now. Naturally they want an outlet for their produce where they can sell it to the best advantage. One of the chief objections last year was the fact that the stand fronted on the Concord Turnpike and they anticipated entrances there. They now have located the stand on Pleasant Street far enough back from the Turnpike and with no entrances from it. The new stand will be about two hundred feet from the present stand, and about thirty-five feet in from Pleasant Street. Pyr. Ryder presented a sketch showing the proposed stand. It is to be twenty by twenty-five feet. The present building is too small, and they wish to have a larger one so that they can store the produce at night. The more of their produce they can sell at retail prices, the more profit they can snake. He said that the DeVincents were substantial taxpayers in town, and their farm was there before the Turnpike went through. He felt that they should be given every opportunity within reason to make a profitable living off this land, if they can do it with- out injury to anyone else. They cannot store the produce in the present building, and very soon they will not be able to store outside on account of the cold weather.