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58 a BOARD OF APPEALS PERMIT The Board of Appeals, acting under the Lexington Zoning ' By-law and General Laws, Chapter 40, Sections 25 to 30 as amended, having received a wiitten petition addressed to it be Robert Cady 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 news- paper published in LOxibgt6n, `whicl hearing ,washeld in 'the Selectmen's Room, in the Town Office Building on the 24th day of May, 1946. Five regular members of the Hoard 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 permission to extend his garage located at 10 Greenwood §treet, Lexington, a distance sideways in the direction of his house, some 10' in order to provide a two - car garage instead of the present siggle garage. The petitioner stated that the addition to the garage would be made of materials similar to the present constPuction. He also stated that he might desire to raise the present garage and addition so*e 2' in order to make the floor of the garage more nearly level with the grade of the street. He stated that the present garage is approximately 10' from the present street line and that the addition would also be 10' from the street line. ' No one appeared in opposition to the said addition. At the close. of the hearing the Board in private session on May 24, 1946 gave consideration to the subject of the petition and voted unanimously in favor of the following findings: 1. That in its judgment the public convenience and welfare will be substantially served by the making of the exception requested. 2. That the exception requested will not tend to impair the status of the neighborhood. 3. That the exception requested will be in harmony with the general purposes and intent of the regulations in the Lexington Zoning By-law. 4. That owing to conditions especially affecting the said parcel but not affecting generally the Zoning district in vh ich It is located, a literal enforcement of the provisions of the Lexington Zoning By-law as to the locus in question would invoYve substantial hardship to the petitioner and that desirable relief may be granted without substantially derogating from the ' intent or purpose of such Lexington Zoning By-law.