HomeMy WebLinkAbout1974-12-19BOARD OF APPEALS HEARINGS
December 19, 1974
' A regular meeting of the Board of Appeals was held on Thursday, December 19,
1974 in the Selectmen's Meeting Room of the Town Office Building at 7:30 p.m.
Present were: Chairman, D. E. Nickerson; Vice Chairman, G. P. Wadsworth; regular
members: W. Brodhead and Ruth Morey; and associate member, Irving H. Mabee.
Prior to the regularly scheduled and advertised hearings, Sarah A. Blood,
343 Massachusetts Avenue, who lives near the proposed Mammola Brothers building
on Massachusetts Avenue, presented to the Board a petition signed with two hun-
dred and ten signatures, with the following words:
We, the undersigned, support the majority of the Board of Appeals
on their vote of September 3, 1974 not to grant a variance*that would
permit a restaurant at 351-363 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, which
would further congest and commercialize this area.
(*A variance was not requested or granted. A special permit under 25.69 and
other applicable provisions of the zoning by-law was requested and denied.)
As usual at Board of Appeals hearings, a Lexington Minute -Man newspaper
reporter and a reporter for the Patriot, another newspaper, as well as, a room
full of townspeople, were present.
Public hearing were held on the following petitions, notice having been
mailed to those who should legally receive them and to town boards and officials
who will or might be affected by decisions made and also advertised in the Lex-
ington Minute -Man, all as required by law.
Kennecott Copper Corporation - for an increase of size from the regulations of
the sign by-law and permission to install two corporate symbols of these increased
sizes on its buildings at 128 Spring Street. These symbols will be 6' wide x 8'
high, fabricated from brass and installed on the East and West sides of the build-
ings. They will be non -illuminated.
Minuteman Village, Nishan and Elizabeth D. Haroian, 353 Concord Avenue - permis-
sion to change from modified second class construction granted October 18, 1973
under the Lexington Building By-law, Art. IX, Sec. 1, B-1, to the BOCA Code (L-2),
which will become mandatory January 1, 1975.
Ginn and Company - permission to erect a free standing identification sign at
entrance to Ginn and Company driveway at 191 Spring Street. Sign will be 2 -sided
perpendicular to Spring Street with lettering Xerox and Ginn and Company on each
side. Sign will be approximately 4 feet high and 7 feet 4 inches wide, unlighted,
and constructed of tubular steel with aluminum panel on which the company names
will be painted. Sign will be located as indicated on plot plan dated Sept. 26,
1960. This land was recently purchased by Ginn and Company.
_Bonnys Landscape Service Inc. - WITHDRAWN by the attorney for the Petitioner.
For the record a copy of the body of the petition and the legal notice follows:
......Bonnys Landscape Service Inc. for a special permit under the provisions of
Section 12.2 Special Permits of the Zoning By-laws of the Town of Lexington in
December 19, 1974 hearings (continued) -2
taccordance with a plan attached to the petition and made a part hereof entitled
"Plot Plan, Land in Lexington, Mass." dated Nov. 29, 1974, Miller and Nylander,
Civil Engineers and Surveyors.
Location of property: Westerly side of Waltham Street with frontage 152.12
feet of said Waltham St. near the intersection of Waltham and Allen Street. The
parcel contains 24 acres more or less.
The petitioner seeks a special permit under the provisions of Section 25.23
of the Use Regulation Schedule of the Zoning By-law of the Town of Lexington to
permit the erection of an Incoming Mail Center (I.M.C.) to be owned and operated
by the United States Postal Service providing mail service to nine (9) postal
offices including the Town of Lexington. U. S. Postal Service Vehicles will be
based at this facility.
The property is in an RO Zone.
Following the hearings the Board gave further consideration to the subject
of the petitions, the evidence presented by the petitioners and others and the
reports and letters received, including the letters received from other town
boards and officials and made the following decisions, all in public open meeting:
Kennecott Copper Corporation - granted unanimously.
Minuteman Village - granted unanimously.
Ginn and Company - granted unanimously, subject to the condition: The area
around the sign shall be landscaped and every effort made to please the neighbors.
Bonny's Landscape Service (U.S. Postal Service) - Withdrawn. See a copy of letter
sent to the Chairman:
Dear Mr. Nickerson:
Please be advised that the above-named petitioner, Bonny's Landscape Service
Inc. does hereby withdraw its petition for a special permit under the provisions
of Section 12.2 of the Zoning By-laws of the Town of Lexington.
The withdrawal of said petition is done without prejudice to the rights of
the petitioner to resubmit a like petition at some future date.
Notice of this withdrawal has been given to the Lexington Minute Man in
order to cause the least inconvenience to those parties interested.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Norman J. Richards
Decisions were filed with the Town Clerk, as usual.
All other pertinent material is on file in the Board of Appeals' office.
The meeting adjourned at 9 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
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Evelyn F. Cole, Clerk
BOARD OF APPEALS