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11-2)-1-56 While the Board in general is not opposed to a business ' enterprise of this nature in a residential district, it is believed that the pronosed location is not an appro- priate one for a ski slope because of the parking problem which would be created. In the opinion of the Planning Board skiing activity generates, to use the term of a traffic engineer, large volumes of traffic. The Lexing- ton Inn parking area, Massachusetts Avenue and adjacent streets are not adequate to accommodate the number of vehicles needed to be parked. A parking area on Lot B would necessitate clearing land of trees, grading, and constructing an entrance from Massachusetts Avenue. Such an entrance would be a hazard since it could not be seen from autos proceeding from a westerly direction over the hill on Massachusetts Avenue. The Planning Board recognizes that it cannot prevent the Trust from cutting trees or grading its property. It is believed, however, that the Trust will cooperate by not engaging in these activities when it has the following knowledge. Lot B is included in a proposed national historic park to preserve and maintain for all time and peoples the last remaining segment of the famous Battle Road of April 191 1775. In its interim report to the Congress, , dated June 16, 1958, the Boston National Historic Sites Commission has recommended the creation of said park. The Planning Board has included the project in its long- range plan for the development of Lexington. ',dile the Selectmen and narticularly the Planning Board have knowledge of this project, such information cannot be re- vealed until the issuance of the report now being printed by the Federal Government and the introduction into Con - press of the bills creating said park. Investigations of the Commission's research historian have revealed that it the Fiske Hill area some of the most colorful and furious but least known and publicized action In the course of the British retreat took place. The Board trusts, therefore, that with this knowledge all those concerned will recognize the great importance and urgency of preserving for posterity this significant link with. the Nation Is past, and will take no action ,illieri will In any way impair such preservation. Sincerely .yours, LEXINGTON PLANNING BOARD Isl Thomas S. Grindle, Chairman '