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BOARD OF APPEALS HEARINGS January 2, 1975 A regular meeting of the Board of Appeals was held on Thursday, January 2, 1975 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, Robert M. Gary. Also present were: Petitioners or their representatives, newspaper reporters, League of Women Voters observers, and a room full of 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, and also advertised in the Lexington Minute -Man. All hearings and decisions were made in open public hearing with specta- tors present. Henry and Natalia Stojanow - variance of section 27 to maintain the existing dwelling at 8 Essex Street with a side yard of 7 ft. instead of the required 10 ft. on the easterly side of the premises. Moore Homes, Inc. - to vary sections 25.10 and 25.11 of the zoning by-laws of the Town of Lexington to allow two-family dwellings to be built on Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, 13, and 14 with access from Bedford Street between numbers 75 and 77 Bedford Street. The lots are shown on a plan entitled Centre Estates Sec- tion 2, dated Oct. 18, 1974, drawn by Miller & Nylander, Civil Engineers and Surveyors, Lexington, Mass. Said lots are located in an RO one -family dwelling zoning district. (RO should be RS) SM Realty Corporation, 1-5 Forbes Road, Lexington - (1) A finding and determina- tion pursuant to Section 13 of the zoning by-laws that the buildings, parking areas, drives and other improvements shown on the site plan submitted will con- stitute a suitable development and will not result in a substantial detriment to the neighborhood. (2) A special permit pursuant to Section 12.2 of the zoning by-laws to allow the construction of the buildings shown on plans submitted, to be used for the purposes set forth in Sections 25.40, 25.41, 25.42 and 25.71 of the Use Regulation Schedule. (3) A variance pursuant to Section 12.3 of the zoning by-laws to allow: (a) the construction of Building B shown on plans sub- mitted, which building has a rear yard of less than 100 ft. abutting an RO dis- trict (closest point to Building B is 30 ft. from RO district) and a front yard of less than 100 ft. abutting Forbes Road (closest point of Building B is 75 ft. from road), which conditions vary from Section 27, Schedule of Dimensional Con- trols; (b) the use of 14 parking spaces servicing Building B which are located within 50 ft. of an RO district in variance with Section 32.2, Schedule of Dim- ensional Restrictions for Parking and Loading; and (c) the design of parking spaces having a 9 -foot width in variance with definition of parking space in part 4. The Petitioner proposes to build two buildings (designated as Building A and Building B on the site plan submitted, dated 12/9/74) on its property located on the westerly side of Forbes Road containing 5 46 acres of land. Building A, a multi-purpose office/laboratory building will initially contain 30,000 sq. ft. and may be expanded to contain up to an additional 10,000 sq. ft. Building B. a multi-purpose office building, will contain up to 20,000 sq. ft. Attached to the petition is a copy of a Certificate of Completion issued by the Massachusetts Department of Natural Resources regarding the completed site