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367 SELECTMEN'S MEETING MARCH 30, 1937. A regular meeting of the Selectmen was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building, at 7:30 P.M. Chairman Ferguson, Messrs. Potter, Giroux, Clark and Ross were present. The Clerk was also present. Mr. Leo A. Boynton appeared before the Board. He statedthat he hada junk yard on Sylvia Street which it was necessary for him to maintain because he always had some surplus that he had to throw off and always had some junk that he had to store. At the time that he got his junk license in Arlington his mother-in-law had this yard in Lexington and it was previous to the enactment of the Zoning Law. He said that when he took over the property the yard was in a terrible condition and he spent a great deal of money fixing it up. Boynton said that no one ever objected to the yard ex- cept Emil Zacharias, who got some people to sign a petition asking to enjoin Boynton from maintaining the yard. Boynton said that he had tried his best to get a yard in another Town but has been unsuccessful. He tried to get two places in Arlington and one in �woburn. He wanted to know if something could be done so that Boynton he could stay in his present location. He said that re junk he understood that he had lost the case but it was yard. impossible for him to establish himself in any location. If he had known when he started the business that it was necessary to get a license to store junk, he would have got it and if he had, he would not have lost the case. He said that he had been in his present location for fourteen years. The Chairman said that there was nothing that the Board could do inasmuch as the case was decided in favor of the Town and the Board could not very well turn around and go against the judgment of the Court. He said that the neighbors had objected to the maintenance, - of the yard and were still objecting; the Judge had madd his finding which was that Boynton was violating the Zoning Law; and that was all there was to it. The Chairman said that the Selectmen understood that Boynton'_s lawyer knew that he had to get another yard. Mr. Boynton retired. At 8;10 P.M. hearing was declared open upon the application of William A., Philip and R. Lockwood Tower for, the approval of the Board of Survey of a layout of land known as the Tower Estate consisting of 113 acrds of land on the southeasterly side of Pollen Road. The notice of the hearing was read by the Chairman.