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BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING June 14, 1946 A meeting of the Board of Appeals was held in the Select- men's Room, Town Office Building on Friday evening, June 14, 1946 at 7:30 p.m. Messrs. Locke, Brown, Nickerson, Redman and Associate Member Ripley were present. Mr. Locke acted as Chairman and further consideration was given to the application of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company for permission to enlarge the present telephone exchange located at 27 Mazzey Street, Lexington. Letter was received from William M. Hogan, Jr., attorney for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company stating that arrangements had been made whereby they were renting, from the Old Belfry Club, space in the parking area adjoining the Telephone Company property for the parking of cars connected with the Telephone Building, In addition, the Company will instruct its employees that this parking space has been secured for their use and that no vehicles operated by them, whether owned by the Company or by the individual, are to be parked in the public ways in the vicinity of the Telephone exhange. Upon motion of Mr. Nickerson, seconded by Mr. Brown, it was unanimously voted to grant the petition in the following form: BOARD OF APPEALS P10,11T 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 written petition addressed to it by New Angland Telephone and Telegraph Company 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 -Ilan, a newspaper published in Lexington, which hearing was held in the Selectmen's Room, in the Town Office Building on the 11th day of January, 1946. Four regular and one associate members 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: Than the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company wished to enlarge the existing telephone exchange building located at 27 Muzzey Street, Lexington by an addition approximately 42' x 301, across the rear of the present building, extending 12' on the southwesterly side as shown on plan submitted marked "Progress Print, March 4, 1946." The addition to be located 30' from the rear lot line, 15' from the southwesterly lot line and 1$' from the northeasterly lot line. The architecture Ll