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BOARD OF APPEALS HEARINGS October 3, 1972 A regular meeting of the Lexington Board of Appeals was held on Tuesday, October 3, 1972 at 7:30 p.m. in the selectmen's meeting room of the Town Office Building. Present were Chairman Donald E. Nickerson, regular members Howard H. Dawes, George C. Sheldon, George P. Wadsworth and Ruth Morey, as well as sev- eral interested townspeople. 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: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory for a special permit under Section 30 of the Zoning By -Law of the Town of Lexington in order that it may erect on premises, owned by it, at 238 Wood Street, an experimental radar antenna tower hereinafter described, and at a location shown on a plot plan (Exhibit A) and sketch (Exhibit B) filed herewith. This experimental radar antenna tower will consist of a steel structure 66 feet in height with an antenna and pedestal 18 feet high located on top of the structure. Total height from the ground to the top of the antenna will be 84 feet. The antenna tower will be located approximately 400 feet back from Wood Street. ' This installation will be used to determine state -of -the art radar and signal processing techniques which can be applied to improve airport radar surveillance. The effort is sponsored by the Federal Aviation Agency. The MIT Field Station area for the antenna installation has been chosen because: (1) it is necessary to have high elevation for better radar coverage, and (2) a fast digital signal processor located at Lincoln Laboratory is required to demonstrate the techniques proposed. Although the premises is in an RO District, it has been used as part of Lincoln Laboratory as a field station in the study of electronics and related radar for many years prior to the :Zoning By -Law, so that it is a non -conform- ing use. In experimental work of this kind antenna structures such as the one proposed are temporary in nature. YOUVILLE HOSPITAL, Sister Annette Caron, S.G.M., Adminstrator - for special permission under Section 25.22 of the Lexington Zoning By -Law to build and maintain at 10 Pelham Road a 150 bed nursing home annex to Youville Hospital which is also owned and operated by the Grey Nuns Charity, Inc. We would plan on using the present structures with minimal modification along with the addition of one new structure. The proposed new structure would be consis- tent with architectural requirements set down by the town of Lexington. The new addition will be 205 feet by 85 feet and be three stories in height. L and B Realty Trust - petition for permission to subdivide the property loca- ted at 1037-1049 Massachusetts Avenue into two (2) parcels as follows: 1. 1037 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, a lot containing 1.4 acres of ' land, having 120.45 feet of frontage instead of the required 125 feet of frontage; and 2. 1049 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, a lot having 50 feet of frontage instead of the required 125 feet of frontage and 5,100 square feet of