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MEETING - BOARD OF APPEALS
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SEPTEMBER 70 1934.
A meeting of the Board of Appeals was held at the
Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building, on Friday, September
7, 19341 Messrs. Glynn, Robbins and Hatch werd present. The
Secretary was also present.
Hearing was declared open upon the application of J. F.
Browne of Lexington Road, Concord, for permission to maintain
a riding school at the property of Martin Swenson on Concord
Avenue,
Mr, C. Edward Glynn acted as Chairman, Protem, and called
the hearing. Mr. Howard W. Robbins, Clerk, was called upon
to read the notice of the hearing.
Mr. J. F. Browne was present and stated that he was
desirous of maintaining a riding stable at the Kelsey Ranch,
so called, which is now used as a dairy farm and work horses
are kept there. He stated that there would be no change in
the property at all, and that it would attract a nice type
of people, that there would be nothing that would detract
' from that section of the community and there will be nothing'*
about the sign that would detract. It would probably be V—
' -small sign placed at the corner calling attention to the
Kelsey Ranch riding School.
In answer to Mr. Glynn's inquiry, Mr. Browne stated that
he and his daughter were to operate the riding school and it
was their intention only to use the property. They would
manage to keep the horses off the road. His daughter goes to
High School and when he was not there she would be. He
stated that there was plenty of place for parking on the
property so that there would not be any on the road. It
would be a small business, with perhaps the exception of
Sundpry. He would keep from six to ten horses, but just
now he had only three. He would keep nothing else in
conjunction with the stable horses. Mr. Browne stated that
he was now living in Lexington but not on this property, but
eventually he would live on this property.
Georffrey L. Pippette of Shade Street stated that he
lived right across, and they had no objection to a school,
but they did want to ask if there would be any change in the
Zoning Law that would allow any other business to be put in
there, or whether it was just a modification of the law.
Mr. Glynn explained that this was not granting any change
in the Zoning Law that would allow any other person to carry
on the permit that would be expressly granted to the applicant
if granted, and that to change the zone would be beyond the
powers of the Board of Appeals.
Mr. Oscar A. Andresen of Shade Street stated that he 'felt
that in a residential zone business was prohibited and he did
not want to have something established that would continue.
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Mr. Glynn explained that a riding school could not be
considered exactly a business in the sense that business
is understood. Mr. Glynn also explained that ther4J was a
movement to prohibit any form of business on the new
Concord Avenue highway, but he did not think that this was
exactly in that catagory.
Mr. Browne explained that other riding stables located
in some of the nicest residential towns such as Hamilton,
Groton, Darien, Conn. all attracted a very desirable class
of people, and he felt that the stable could not bring an
undersirable class to that section of the town.
Other persons were present but no others spoke in favor
or against the application, with the exception of Mr. Alex
Swenson, owner of the property, who stated that he was in
favor of the application.
The hearing closed at 8:20 P.M.
The records of the previous meetings were read and with
but one correction of the assessed value of the Viano property,
were approved.
A true record, Attest:
Clerk.
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