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ments having been fulfilled, date for hearing was set for Monday, November 1, <br />8 o'clock. <br />Moved by,Mr. Grindle, seconded by Mr. Hathaway that $1.00 be sent for <br />copy of "&I . Planning Commissioner." So voted. <br />Mr. Snow announced that a tour known as "Operation 128" was -being gi"n <br />by Greater Boston Chamber of Commuerce which would visit a number of industrial <br />businesses along Route 128 which are acceptable to towns of Lexingtonts'alass. <br />Mr. Snow expects to go and other members of the Planning Board are invited. <br />Board..of Appeals Notices <br />Notices of hearings to be held by Board of Appeals on Pionaay,'October _ <br />14 were read. After discussion it.was decided to send a letter to the Board <br />of Appeals stating that the Planning Board was opposed to the granting of a <br />variance to permit the operation of a funeral home at 1508 Massachusetts Ave., <br />Lexington by William Graham because it felt that it would result in the.estab- <br />lishment of anew commercial enterprise in an R-1 District; that there are <br />other zones in which a funeral home can be operated without special permission <br />and that there was no particular need for establishing a new one; and that it <br />would add to an already hazardous traffic situation. <br />Also decided to write a letter to the Board of Appeals stating that it <br />opposed the petition of Elmer R. Anderson for permission to construct three <br />greenhouses and fora variance to permit the erection of a.building for whole- <br />sale and retail sales purposes because it would result in the establishment of <br />a new and substantial commercial enterprise on land abutting Route 2 which has <br />continuously been opposed in the past; also that it would create new and serious <br />traffic problems on Route 2 for which there would be no immediate solution. <br />Meeting adjourned at 10;45 o!ccllocck, <br />W)*1 <br />ilbur M. Jaq t <br />Clerk <br />lmb <br />1 <br />