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a -?1-58 proposed amendment is adopted,the store building will be enlarged through an addition erected principally on the re- zoned land. It is proposed to use the remaining rezoned land for additional parking space and a driveway to the rear of the building and the present parking space abutting the railroad right of way. The proposed amendment was thoroughly discussed at the hearing. The possible advantages if adopted, particularly in helping to solve the existing parking problem were presented by the proponent. The disadvantages, particularly the effect of its adoption on possible further encroachments of business toward the Battle Green, were presented by persons now resid- ing in the area and elsewhere. The Planning Board unanimously recommends that the Zoning By-law not be amended as proposed under Article 6 for the following reasons: 1. The Board believes that the town as a matter of general planning policy should not allow further encroach- ments of business toward the Battle Green in any direction. The only exception thich might be made to this policy would be to correct a serious town problem involving an existing situation which otherwise could not be solved. No exception to the policy which would allow the expansion of business toward the Battle Green should be allowed. 2. The present C 2 district which the proposed amend- ment would enlarge already extends further toward the Battle Green than the C 2 district on the opposite side of Bedford Street. The adoption of the proposed amendment undoubtedly would result in further requests to extend the C 2 district on the other side of Bedford Street toward the Battle Green. 3. The Board is not convinced by the information re- sented at the hearing that the proposed rezoning would materially affect the present traffic problems on Bedford Street or the parking problems of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. Lexington Planning Board Charles T.Abbott Levi G.Burnell,J.r. Thomas S.Grindle, Chairman Wilbur M.Jaquith September 10,1958 Richard H.Soule Report of the Planning Board on the Amendment to the Zoning By-law Proposed by Article 7 ' On September 4, 1958 at 8:00 p.m., the Planning Board held a public hearing on the proposal to amend the Lexington