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BOARD OF APPEALS HEARINGS December 19, 1974 ' A regular meeting of the Board of Appeals was held on Thursday, December 19, 1974 in the Selectmen's Meeting Room of the Town Office Building at 7:30 p.m. Present were: Chairman, D. E. Nickerson; Vice Chairman, G. P. Wadsworth; regular members: W. Brodhead and Ruth Morey; and associate member, Irving H. Mabee. Prior to the regularly scheduled and advertised hearings, Sarah A. Blood, 343 Massachusetts Avenue, who lives near the proposed Mammola Brothers building on Massachusetts Avenue, presented to the Board a petition signed with two hun- dred and ten signatures, with the following words: We, the undersigned, support the majority of the Board of Appeals on their vote of September 3, 1974 not to grant a variance*that would permit a restaurant at 351-363 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, which would further congest and commercialize this area. (*A variance was not requested or granted. A special permit under 25.69 and other applicable provisions of the zoning by-law was requested and denied.) As usual at Board of Appeals hearings, a Lexington Minute -Man newspaper reporter and a reporter for the Patriot, another newspaper, as well as, a room full of townspeople, were present. Public hearing were held on the following petitions, notice having been mailed to those who should legally receive them and to town boards and officials who will or might be affected by decisions made and also advertised in the Lex- ington Minute -Man, all as required by law. Kennecott Copper Corporation - for an increase of size from the regulations of the sign by-law and permission to install two corporate symbols of these increased sizes on its buildings at 128 Spring Street. These symbols will be 6' wide x 8' high, fabricated from brass and installed on the East and West sides of the build- ings. They will be non -illuminated. Minuteman Village, Nishan and Elizabeth D. Haroian, 353 Concord Avenue - permis- sion to change from modified second class construction granted October 18, 1973 under the Lexington Building By-law, Art. IX, Sec. 1, B-1, to the BOCA Code (L-2), which will become mandatory January 1, 1975. Ginn and Company - permission to erect a free standing identification sign at entrance to Ginn and Company driveway at 191 Spring Street. Sign will be 2 -sided perpendicular to Spring Street with lettering Xerox and Ginn and Company on each side. Sign will be approximately 4 feet high and 7 feet 4 inches wide, unlighted, and constructed of tubular steel with aluminum panel on which the company names will be painted. Sign will be located as indicated on plot plan dated Sept. 26, 1960. This land was recently purchased by Ginn and Company. _Bonnys Landscape Service Inc. - WITHDRAWN by the attorney for the Petitioner. For the record a copy of the body of the petition and the legal notice follows: ......Bonnys Landscape Service Inc. for a special permit under the provisions of Section 12.2 Special Permits of the Zoning By-laws of the Town of Lexington in