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126 <br />The Board then considered the application of Mr. <br />J. P. Morse. Upon motion of Mr. Brown, seconded by Ivlr. <br />Locke, it was unanimously voted to grant a permit to Mr. <br />huorse, for a garage of cemen blocks, not having the re- <br />quired distance from the lot line, in the following form: <br />BOARD OF APPEALS PERI=IT <br />The Board of Appeals, acting under the Lexington <br />Building Laws having received a written petition addressed <br />to it by J. P. Morse a copy of which is hereto annexed, <br />held a public hearing thereon of which notice was mailed <br />to the petitioner and to the owners of all property deemed <br />by the Board to be affected thereby as they appear on the <br />most recent local tax list which hearing was held in the <br />Selectmen's Room, in the Town Office Building on the 4th <br />day of August, 1944. <br />Three regular and two assiciate members of the Board <br />of 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: That <br />Mr. J. P. Morse wished to erect and maintain a single car <br />garage on his premises at 19 Sherman Street, Lexington, to <br />be located only six feet from the sideline of his lot; that <br />the construction would be of cement blocks with the roof <br />constructed of timber; that it was impossible to place the . <br />garage on any other part of the land, or on the proposed <br />location any further from the lot line than six feet, due <br />to the interference of the principle building. <br />No one appeared in opposition. <br />At the close of the hearing the Board in private <br />session on August 4, 1944 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 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 reugested will be in harmony <br />with the general purposes and intent of the regulations <br />in the Lexington Building Laws. <br />4. That owing to conditions especially affecting the <br />said parcel but not affecting general: -y the district in <br />which it is located, a literal enforcement of the provisions <br />of the Lexington Building, Laws as to the locus in question <br />0 <br />