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Minutes of the Lexington Zoning Board of Appeals Selectmen’s Meeting Room September 11, 2014 Board Members Present: Chairman – Martha C. Wood, Jeanne K. Krieger, Edward D. McCarthy, Leo P. McSweeney and David G. Williams Associate Member sitting as an Alternate: Ralph D. Clifford Administrative Staff: Dianne Cornaro, Clerk and David George, Zoning Administrator Address: 66 Munroe Road, Map 17, Lot 18 The petitioner submitted the following information with the applications: nature and justification of request; plot plan; floor plans; photographs; grading/drainage plan; wetland and restoration planting plan; engineering drainage calculations and a letter of support for Attorney Edmund Grant. Prior to the hearing, the petitions and supporting data were reviewed by the Building Commissioner, Conservation Administrator, Town Engineer, Board of Selectmen, the Zoning Administrator, the Planning Director, Economic Development; the Historic District Commission Clerk and the Zoning Administrator. Comments were received from the Conservation Administrator, Engineering and the Zoning Administrator. The petitioner requested a SPECIAL PERMIT in accordance with 135-8.4.2 and 135- 9.4.2 of the Zoning Bylaw to allow modification (reconstruction and expansion) of a non conforming structure. At the August 14, 2014 hearing the Chairman read a letter from Richard A. Kirby of LEC Environmental Consultants, Inc. on behalf the applicant, Ying Chen, requesting to postpone the hearing until September 11, 2014 to respond to concerns raised by the Town Engineer. by At the September 11, 2014 hearing the Chairwoman opened the hearing at 7:36 pm reading the legal notices and described information received from the petitioner. Attorney Edmund Grant presented the petition for Ying Chen, owner of the property. Richard Kirby of LEC Environmental Consultants, Inc. was also present at the hearing. Attorney Grant explained the proposed project and the modification of the location of the structure. Because the previously proposed structure was located near a town-controlled sewer easement, the structure needed to be moved to a different location as requested by the Town Engineer. The revised plan, which satisfied the requirements of the Engineering Division, shows the house location as 5.4 ft from the front lot line, 38.7 ft. from the right-side yard lot line, 50.5 ft from the left-side lot line and 82.2 ft. from the rear lot line. One side of the lot has extensive conservation wetlands and required order of conditions for the new location of the structure, which was approved by the Conservation Commission on August 25, 2014. Mr. Kirby explained the drainage and the proposed changes to the project that were approved by the Engineering Department and the Conservation Commission. A Board member asked what was the height of the building. (38.9 ft.)