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233 ' BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING November 18, 1936. A meeting of the Board of Appeals was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building, at 7:30 P. M. Chairman Maddison, Messrs. Glynn, Kimball, Robbins and Ferguson were present. The Secretary was also present. The matter of the petition of Charles W. Ryder for permission to maintain a convalescent home at 84 Cary Avenue was considered and also the statements of Mr. Ryder to the effect that they had owned this property for a considerable length of time and had been unable to rent the same for a private residence owing to its size, and the Board also considered the reports which had been received regarding the prospective tenant. The almost unanimous feeling of the neighbors against the granting of the petition was also carefully considered. . Upon motion of Mr. Ferguson, seconded by Mr. Glynn, ' it was unanimously voted to deny the petition in the following form: The Board of Appeals, acting under General Laws, Chapter 40, section 27, having received a written petition addressed to it by Charles W. Ryder, a copy of which is hereto annexed, held a public hearing thereon of which notice was mailed to the petitioner and to the owners of all property deemed by the Board to be affected thereby as they appear on the most recent local tax list, and also advertised in the Lexington Minute -Man, a newspaper published in Lexington, which hearing was held in the Selectmen's Room, in the Town Office Building on October 30, 1936 and November 6, 1936. Four members of the Board of Appeals were present at the hearing. A certificate of notice is hereto annexed. At this hearing evidence was offered on behalfcf the peti- tioner tending to show: That he had had an application to lease 84 Cary Avenue to be used for a convalescent home and also as a residence by the proposed tenant, Mrs. Gladys Lussier; that the owner had been unable to find a customer to either purchase or occupy the premises as a residence; that Mrs. Lussier had had previous experience in running a sanitorium at Enosburg Falls, Vt. Mrs. Lussier also stated that many of her patients in Vermont came from the Leahy clinic in Boston; that she was a registered nurse in Vermont and did not desire to take any patients who would naturally be objectionable to her family; that she was willing to agree not to take any contagious, psychopathic, tuberculor, alcoholic or narcotic patients, and was willing to limit the number of patients k£ any one time to ten.