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266 x which hearing was held in the Selectments Room, in the ' Town Office Building on the fourteenth day of February, 1947. Four regular 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 James M. Etter requested permission to construct a dwelling on a lot of land on Woburn Street, Lexington, designated as Lot A. on Plan #204, registered in Middle- sex Registry of Deeds on April 25, 1932. No- one appeared in opposition. At the close of the hearing the Board in private session on February 141, 1947 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 requeted will not tend to ' impair the statusof 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 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 hard- ship to the petitioner and that desirable relief may, be -granted without substantially derogating from the intent or purpose of such Lexington Zoning By-law. Pursuant to the said findings, the Board hereby unanimously decides that the application of the Lexington Zoning By-law is hereby varied so far as may be necessary to permit James M. Etter to construct a dwelling on the aforesaid lot of land on Woburn Street subject to the following conditions; That the main structure, exclusive of a piazza, shall be set back from Woburn Street at least fifty (50) feet, and so located on the lot that sideyards shall be at least fifteen (15) feet in width for any structure.