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57 Dr. Foley: I might as well, add my opposition to the proposed plan. ' aught the Harrington property I knew the church was next door and there was a parking problem. However, this particular problem now is, all of a sudden, beginning to engulf us. Now, whether it is used on Sunday morning or any other time, it gets a little rough when it gets on three sides of you. Citizen: There is a fence on Bedford Street? Foley:. Yes, there is. I have tried to grow grass but it does not work. I have put up the fence on an average of about once a week and I do not see how my lot is going to improve. The church has approached me to sell my property and they wanted to buy the entire piece. We bought the house to live in, and we turned down that offer. I have talked to Mr. Hanna tonight to see if we could not get together. I made a proposal to him; right now it is in the speculative stage, and the proposal I made would limit this proposed parking area. That is all I am going to say. Locke: Anyone else wish to speak? Abuttor: Might I ask exactly to what use the house would be used? Hanna: The house would be used as a parsonage. In the course of time it migE7 be possible to turn it into a museum. In the house there are a great many relics of Revolutionary times. Tf that could be done would de- oend on the finances of the church and the 'wishes of the community. One ' of the things that we would be most interested in is to see that this parking area would only be used on Sunday and on special evenings, and we would have our Minister living there and he would be interested in seeing that this is so. I think I should comment on what Dr. Foley says on this proposal. We have offered to buy all his property or any part thereof that would take care of the parking. We made him a proposition that we regard as handsome, and he said that he considered it a very fair offer. The offer expired at five o'clock tonight. We did not hear from Dr. Foley until shortly after six.tonight, and between six and nine several of us have been checking on the back land behind the barn, that runs on back towards the brook. We will continue to talk to Dr. Foley and if we can arrive at anything that is satisfactory to the parish we will be most happy to meet their desires. We are faced with a time problem. We have an op- tion which expires on January 9th. We have to do what we are going to do before that time, and of course we are hoping that it will be possible for us to have a decision from the Board prior to that time, so that we can know how we may proceed. We do point out that the same situation will exist as to the land in back of Dr. Foley, which is zoned residentially, and if we are entitled to have a parking area in back of Dr. Foley, we are entitled to have a parking area where we have asked for it tonight. VanNorden: If the Board of Appeals should approve this parking lot and accept Me recommendation of the Planning Board that they do not allow a road leading into it from Bedford St. and should allow a road from Harring- ton Rd. what is the church going to do to keep that road from being used as a parking lot itself, and to keep townspeople from driving into it to get off the street. If people are disposed to do that, it would seem to me that certainly fencing or some type of protection would be necessary,