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ADDENDUM ' 938 Massachusetts Ave. Lexington, Mass. 21 June 1957 Mr. Donald E. Dickerson Chairman, Board of Appeals Town Office Building Lexington, 73, Mass. Dear Mr. Nickerson: At the present time, there is under construction at 927 Massachusetts Avenue a cement block garage of enormous size and, incidentally, of surpassing ugliness. I am sure that you are aware of this, but I would like nonetheless to em- phasize the implications of this building, as they appear to me, and to register a strong protest against what has long been, is, and unless something is done immediately, will con- tinue to be a flagrant violation of the zoning by-laws of the Town of Lexington. On 9 April 1957 a meeting of the ,Board of Appeals consid- ered and, I understand, rejected a petition of George Mahoney ' to allow his sons to run a trucking business from 927 Massa- chusetts Avenue. If my hearsay information is correct, the Mahoneys were at that time given six months to move the truck- ing business or to cease operations. There now remain tb them about three months of this grace period, and if they intended to comply with the decision of the Board of Appeals, one might reasonably expect that they would be doing what they could to transfer their activities to an appropriately zoned district. Instead, they are hastily constructing a garage obviously de- signed to house two or more trucks. It may be, and I suspect it is perfectly within the Mahoneys' rights as property owners to construct any kind of building they like, provided it conforms with the building regulations. I understand they have received a building per- mit for a three car garage, and the fact that the doors of this "car" garage have a clearance of roughly twelve feet is, I suppose, irrelevant to the office of the Building Inspector. I am not, therefore, protesting this construction --though parenthetically I consider it unfortunate that such an archi- tectural -affront to a residential neighborhood can be made within the provisions of the building code. However, while the building as such may be within the limits of the law, its clearly intended use is not. I realize ' that your office is unable to do anything about "clearly in- tended use". Yet I do hope and expect that the decisions of the Board of Appeals are susceptible of enforcement, and that when the grace period on the present trucking business is up,