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86 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 written petition addressed to it by Julia Grant 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 Lexington, which hearing was held in the Selectmen's Room, in the Town Office Building on the twenty-fifth day of July, 1946. Three regular and two associates 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; Mrs. Julia Grant wished to sub -divide the parcel of land located at 627 Mass. Avenue so that the lot on which the present residence now stands shall have approximately 126.10 feet frontage, with an area of approx- imately 24,330 square feet, designated on plan of Albert H. Miller and Wilbur C. Nylander, datel June 21, 1946, marked Lot A-1, that the second parcel of land shall have a frontage of seventy feet with a lot area of 18,180 square feet designated on the same plan as Lot A-2. Mrs. Grant stated that any residence located on Lot A-2 would be set back at least the same distance as the existing residence on Lot A-1 at 627 Massachusetts Avenue. No one appeared in opposition. At the close of the hearing the Board in private session July 25,1946 gave condideration 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 Lex- ington Zoning By-law. 4. That owing to conditions especially affecting the said parcel but not affecting generally the Zoning district in which it is located, a literal enforcement of the provisions of the Lexington Zoning By-law as to the locus in question would involve 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. ,