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DeFM= Mr. Soule arrived at 7150 P•m• at which time the Board considered, then approved the draft of a letter, later signed by the Chairman, advising Mr. Frank DeFelioe that his request for permission to divide his land into lots constituted a sub- division. (See addendum.) FOISOK The Board next discussed the petitica of Mr. Edward S. Folsom for a variance to subdivide lots at the corner of Bell- flower and Homestead Streets, said petition having been denied by the Board of Appeals on November 26, 1957. It was under- stood that at the hearing in regard to this petition four property owners in the vicinity had objected to the granting of said petition, claiming that they had each assembled several lots into one building lot having a frontage of 100 feet. Mr. Snow stated that during the previous week Mr. Smith, attorney for Mr. Folsom, had come to the Planning Board office to dis- oass the case and to inquire if said Board might be willing to recommend the granting of a variance if a petitio*ere sub- mitted again. The suggestion was made that a letter might be written to the effect that it was the Planning Board's recom- mendation that, if a variance be granted, A house should front on Homestead Street and that, with this limitation, the variance might be desirable. The Planning Board reached no decision in regard to the matter. REGIAt 8s30 p.m. Messrs. Lincoln P. Cole, Jr., Donald M. SHOPPING Fifield, Donald R. Grant, Robert C. Merriam, Vernon C. Page, , CENTER Harold E. Roeder, A. Edward Rose, Jr., and George C. Sheldon, they being representatives of the Lexington Home Owners Committee, not with the Board to discuss Filene's proposal for a regional shopping center in Lexington. Mr. Grindle pre- faced the discussion by giving a Background of the Planning Board's activities to date in regaadd to said proposal and the Board's reasons for its decision last June that it could not submit to a Town Meeting a recommendation of favorable actin on the amendments to the zoning by-law as proposed in the notice of the public hearing on the regional shopping canter. Particularly discussed were the Board's activities in devel- oping a scheme which would solve, to the Planning Board's satisfaction, traffic problems arising out of a location of a shopping center as proposed. Mr. Rowse said that it was his understanding that quite a few people were surprised at the way the Planning Board handled the regional shopping center amsndments to the Zoning By-law at the public hearing held on said amendments. Mr. Rowse stated that a majority of the committee agreed that the decision in regard to such a proposal was an important one for the town as a whole, that it was the desire of the committee to protect the town's interest in re -zoning the Swenson property by holding a twin meeting so the proposal could be voted upon, , and that it was hoped a positive vote could be obtained on the matter so that it could be voted upon at a referendum.