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24 a BOARD OF APPEALS PERMIT The Board of Apneala, acting under the Lexington Zoning By-law and General Laws, Chapter 40, Sections 25 to 30A as amended, having received a written petition addressed to it by Countryside Associates, Inc. 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 newspaper published in Lexington which hearing was held in the Selectmen's Room, in the Town Office Building on the ninth day of May, 1947. 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 shows That Countryside Associates, Inc. requested an extension of the permit granted last year to Richard Kelly for the maintenance of a golf driving range on the premises owned by the Estate of Howard M. Munroe located on Lowell Street adjacent to Countbyside, Inc.; that all conditidna of the previous permit would be acceptable to the new owners. It was stated that two additional tees in line with the pre- viously existing tees had been added. No one appeared in opposition to the said petition. At the close of the hearing the Board in private session on May 9 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 re- quested. . 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.