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6-16-58 of the same, and to write the Board of Appeals giving its reasons for said opposition. Under Chapter 40A, Section 3 of the General Laws, three purposes of zoning regulations are: 1. To conserve the value of land; 2. To encourage the most appropriate use of land throughout the town; and 3. To lessen congestion in the streets. In order to fulfill these objectives, it is the Planning Boardts opinion that a funeral establishment should not be located on the proposed site. It is basically residential in character. The Planning Board believes that the location of a funeral establish- ment in an area primarily of a residential nature tends to lessen the values of residential property. The site is in a local business district. The basic pur- pose of such a district is to provide services of a local nature just for the neighborhood. Mile there are now located in the district establishments whose nature is general, rather than local, the Planning Board believes that these defeat the purpose for which the district was created and recommends that there be no further additions of business of a general nature to the district. The site fronts on a narrow street and is too close to a busy intersection. The lot on which it is proposed to locate a funeral establishment is not large enough to park cars of those attending funeral services. These cars and the formation of funeral processions would necessarily have to be on School Street and adjacent ways. This street is heavily traveled in the morning, half the traf- fic load on said street taking place in the morning hours when many funerals take place. At this time and in the early afternoon hours the street is one of the major means of access to the Hastings School, buses using the route to transport children back and forth to said school. Elimi- nating the heavy air base traffic on Marrett Road, a Plan- ning Board count taken on October 1, 1957 showed that just between the house of 7:30 and 9:00 a.m. 811 cars passed 120 School Street. Using current trends., this figure is expected to increase at the annual rate of five per cent. Sincerely yourss LEX//I� ON PLANNING �-C� BOARD Thdmas S; 4rindle, Chairman