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• 0 The Chairman asked if there were any further questions. Mr. Munroe said that he wished to be recorded in favor of granting the petition. No one appeared in opposition and the hearing was declared closed at 9:12 P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Currier and Nr. Munroe retired. Mr. Cann told the Board that he believed Mr. Currier should have fire proof walls on the first floor. He said that there is only one apartment over the basement and the floor is wood, but if this were made to conform, he would be in favor of the petition being granted. Mr. Cann retired at 9:20 P.M. The Chairman said that as he read the Building By-law he could not see anything about Mr. Richardson's plans that conform to the requirements. Upon motion of Mr. Maddison, seconded by Mr. Bowker, it was unanimously voted to deny the Richardson petition in the following form: The Board of Appeals, acting under the Building By-law of the Town of Lexington and Amendments thereto, having re- ceived a written petition addressed to it by John B. Richard- son, 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 b: the Board to be affected thereby as they appear on the most recent local tax list, and also advertised in the Lexington Ia.inute-1,1an, a newspaper pub- lished in Lexington, which hearing was held in the Selectmen's Room, in the Town Office Building on April 30, 1943• Four members and one associate member of the Board of Appeals were present at the hearing. A certificate of notice is hereto annexed. At this hearing evidence was offered on behalf of the petitioner tending to show: That he wished to convert the three-story frame building; located at 283 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, into an apartment house containing twelve (12) apartments, located four (4) on each floor, together 1,,jith an apartment for the use of the janitor located in the basement; that no structural ehanE,e was to be made in the existing walls or floors, but that kitchenettes would have fire resistant floors and their walls would be of hard plaster on wire lath; that the only stoves or cooking appliances in the building would be operated by electricity; that the boiler room in the baseLent would be enclosed in brick walls and that the ceiling would be of mire laths and hard plaster; that two fire walls would be installed across the hallways of each floor, together with self-closing fire doors therein; that aside from these provisions no material change would be made in the third class construction of the building. .7l