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LEXINGTON HOUSING AUTHORITY HEARING - November 21, 1974 LHA ' A regular meeting of the Board of Appeals was held on Thursday, November 21, 1974 in the Selectmen's Meeting Room of the Town Office Building at 7:30 p.m. Present were: Chairman, D. E. Nickerson; regular members L. Clarke, Jr. and W. Brodhead; and associate members Natalie Riffin and Haskell Reed. Also present were a Minute -Man reporter and a room full of townspeople. The public hearing on the petition of Lexington Housing Authority was held, notice having been mailed to the petitioner and to the owners of all property deemed by the Board to be affected including the abutters and owners of land next adjoining the land of the abutters as they appear on the most recent local tax list and also advertised in the Lexington Minute -Man, a newspaper published in Lexington, which is all as required by law. Also notified, as usual, were: the Town Manager, Building Inspector, Planning Board, Town Engineer, Conservation Commission and Board of Health. The Chairman read the notice. Lexington Housing Authority requests variances from the provisions of Section 27, and other applicable provisions of the zoning by-law, to allow for the construc- tion of 3 single family dwellings on the lots numbered 314-315-316, 317-318-319 and 320-321-322 Wood Street. Each group of three lots consists of 9,000 sq. ft., more or less, said dwellings being located within one foot of the existing front lot lines on lots 320-321-322 and 317-318-319 Wood Street and within 8 feet of the existing front lot line of lots numbered 314-315-316 Wood Street. These lots are opposite Wildwood Road and shown on a certain plan of land entitled "Topographical Plan of Land in Lexington, Mass.", dated October 9, 1974, Albert A. Miller -Wilbur C. Nylander. The Lexington Housing Authority is in the process of acquiring the said lots from the Town of Lexington. It is anticipated that the Town of Lexington will convey additional land to the Lexington Housing Authority and that a 30' set- back will exist following the acquisition of the additional land. Mr. William J. Dailey, Jr., counsel for the Lexington Housing Authority, repre- sented the petitioner and provided the plans, also pictures of the houses intended to be located on two tax -title lots. (see folder for plans and pictures.) He stated that this land was originally laid out in March 1910 and in 1930 the County Commis- sioners relocated Wood Street leaving the intervening strip between the new and old Wood Street, some of which the Lexington Housing Authority intends to acquire from the Town of Lexington, reducing the requirement for setback variances. In addition to the tax title lots, Mr. Dailey indicated that representatives of the LHA had met with the Board of Selectmen and had discussed the possibility of the Town conveying to LHA the land located between the tax title lots and the present layout of Wood Street. He said that they have an agreement to move the house before a date certain. The 1972 Town Meeting by Article 67 gave the Selectmen the authority to convey tax title lots to the Housing Authority to allow them to be used for low and moder- ate cost housing. It is anticipated that an Article will appear in the 1975 Town Warrant requesting that the Board of Selectmen be authorized to convey to the Lex- ington Housing Authority the interest of the Town of Lexington in the land located between the present tax title lots and the present layout of Wood Street. ' The Lexington Housing Authority has purchased from the National Park Service two single family dwellings located within the present confines of the Minute Man National Park. It is the intention of the Lexington Housing Authority to move