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BOARD OF APPEALS HEARINGS ' August 1, 1972 A regular meeting of the Lexington Board of Appeals was held on Tuesday, August 1, 1972 at 7:30 p.m. in the selectmen's meeting room of the Town Office Building. Present were Vice Chairman Sheldon, who presided in the absence of Chairman Nickerson, regular members Wadsworth, Dawes and Mrs. Morey and associ- ate member Cataldo. A large audience of townspeople interested in the public hearings scheduled for this evening filled the room to capacity and also many waited in the hallway outside the meeting room. Public hearings were held on the following petitions, notice having been mailed to the petitioners, to the owners of all property deemed by the Board to be affected thereby as they appear on the most recent local tax list, to town boards who will or might be affected by decisions made, and also adver- tised in the Lexington Minute -man: Frederick D. and Julie A. Miller - petition for a variance to maintain the existing dwelling at 51 Taft Avenue with a frontage of 26.7 ft. instead of the required 30 ft. Dr. Darwish R. Yusah - petition for a variance to maintain an existing dwell- ing at 12 Circle Road with a rear yard of 12 ft. instead of the required 15 ft. Honeywell Inc. (Radiation Center) - petition for permission to maintain on the premises at 2 Forbes Road, in accordance with section 25.94, up to 18 mobile offices, positioned according to plans submitted, for a period not to exceed 12 months. The applicant is the lessee of the premises involved with an op- tion to buy. Nancy and Chi -Hua Wang - petition for a variance on the property located at 106 Pleasant Street to permit the construction of a tool shed of the dimensions 6 ft. by 10 ft. by 7 ft. with a 2' ft. side yard instead of the required 15 ft. Lexington Interfaith Corporation - petition as follows: under c. 774 of the Acts of 1969 for a comprehensive permit for the construction of six attached town -house type dwelling units upon approximately 16,000 sq. ft. of land located northeasterly of Hickory Street and Southeasterly of Garfield Street at the intersection of such streets and shown as Lots 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and part of 25 upon a plan made by Miller & Nylander, Civil Engineers and Surveyors, dated July 6, 1966. Construction of this housing is proposed to be financed by the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency and it is intended that the dwelling units will be leased to persons of low and moderate income, with- out regard to age, eligible for federal or state subsidy programs, Lexington Gardens, Inc., E. Lee Schneider, President, for a special permit to replace certain old buildings with. a new structure on the property currently owned by S. Arthur Peterson, Inc., 544 Lowell Street, Lexington, Massachusetts: Removal of aged structures including a greenhouse, the attached showroom, of- fice structure, work area, furnace room, and portions of a garage and replace- ment with a landscaped clapboard facaded structure in keeping with character of the neighborhood and occupying slightly less area than the structures being replaced. The new structure will be used as a horticultural area, garage, and furnace area. It will be set back further from Lowell Street than the present L'