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PLANNING BOAT?D MEETING ' December 30, 1957 A regular meeting of the Lexington Planning Board was held in the Town Engineer's Room, Town Office Building, on Konday, December 301 1957 at 7:30 p.m. Present were Chairman Grindle, Members Abbott, Burnell, Jaquith and Soule and Planning Director Snow. Consideration was first given to the petition of the Nashoba Realty Trust to be heard by the Board of Appeals later in the evening, said petition seeking permission to erect a 2 -story hotel and restaurant in a Lexington general business district and a variance to locate said hotel abutting in part on a single family residential district. In reviewing the plans for the hotel the following points were noted: the building would be located approximately 12-18 inches from the side lines of the pronerty and 312-5 feet from the rear lines; side windows would open out, probably over adjacent properties; front doors would open outward onto a public sidewalk; exhaust from heater room and garage would blow directly= onto abutting properties; there would be no apparent means of access to outside of building for -maintenance purposes without trespassing on adjacent properties; there would be no means of access from in- terior to rear of building in case of emergency; ramp up from garage to street would have no leveling area and there would be no sight distance for vehicles before crossing public sidewalk and entering onto right of way. The Board considered the problems similar to those which might arise with the erection of buildings located directly on abuttinM property lines as well as the possi- bility- of creating a central municipal parking area lo- cated in the rear of the business properties in the block fronting on Massachusetts Avenue, I•Jaltham Street and Vine Brook Road. It was decided that the Board did not object to a hotel being located in the central business district but that the Board should point out the problems to be considered in locating a hotel on this particular site, including the creation of additional traffic problems on very heavily traveled .,Tassachusetts Avenue so close to the Mass.Ave.-Waltham St. intersection. At 3:20 p.m, the Board adjourned its meeting to attend the Board of Appeals hearing in Estabrook Hall, re- turning to the Town Cffice Building at 9:45 p.m. The Board then_ net with the Selectmen. to discuss, at their request, the problems which might arise in accepting BOARD OF APPEALS NASHOBA MOTEL