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Annual recommendations were filed at the meetings on seven of the proposals, one proposal having been withdrawn. The following amendments were approved: 1. Adoption of new regulations covering area, frontage, yard, parking, loading, and driveway regu- lations for M 1 Light Manufacturing Districts. 2. The addition of office buildings as a per- mitted use in C 3 Special Commercial Districts. 3. Rezoning approximately 165 acres of land abutting Route 2 and the Route 2 and 128 interchange from an R"1 District to a C 3 Special Commercial Dis- trict. The purpose of this rezoning was to permit the area rezoned to be used for research laboratories and office buildings. Also as a part of this pro- posal was the adoption of regulations for the develop- ment of C 3 districts. 4, Amendment of the provisions under which the Board of Appeals can grant special permission for use of dwellings for professional offices by limiting such use to a professional person residing in the dwelling and as incidental to such residence. 5. Rezoning land on which the center railroad station is situated from an R 1 district to a C 2 General Business District. 6. Rezoning approximately 11 acres of land from an R 1 district to an A 1 Garden Type Apartment and Hotel district. This land is located on the south- easterly side of Waltham Street and diagonally opposite the high school. The following amendment was not approved: Rezoning approximately 73 acres of land at junc- tion of Route 2 and Spring Street from an R 1 district to a C 4 Regional Shopping Center district together with the regulations for development of C 4 districts. The following proposal was withdrawn: To rezone land located on Bedford Street from an R 1 district to a C 2 district, this land adjoining the C 2 district presently occupied by the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. retail store and extending southeasterly on Bedford Street approximately 82.5 feet. 1 1 1