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BOARD OF APPEALS <br />October 18, 1979 <br />' 8:00 P.M. <br />The Board of Appeals met at the call of the Chairman, Ruth Morey, in the <br />Selectmen's Meeting Room. <br />Present: Ruth Morey, Chairman <br />Woodruff M. Brodhead <br />Irving H. Mabee <br />Natalie H. Riffin <br />Robert V. Whitman, Associate <br />The Board reconvened to resume deliberation of the Mystic Valley Mental Health <br />petitions for <br />186 Bedford St. - for a special permit to add a second story for additional office <br />space and a special permit for a standing sign. Parties in interest were notified <br />of the continued hearing which had begun on September 27. <br />Chronology of Events since 9/27/79 re. 186 Bedford St. <br />A plan had been submitted to the chairman, identifying land areas that could <br />provide additional parking spaces and including buffer strips of evergreen shrubs <br />or stockade fence, either of which would be a shield to the residential abutters. <br />10/4/79 - A letter had been received from the Planning Board, who had continued to <br />review the petition and information presented at the hearing and offered further <br />advice. <br />10/16/79 - Petitioner, by letter to the Chairman from Gerald S. Harris, President <br />of Mystic Valley Mental Health, asked to withdraw without prejudice the petition <br />for alterations and re -building of their current structure on Bedford St. in <br />Lexington. Letter stated, "After having reviewed our own situation in detail we <br />find that our petition is perhaps premature. We should like to re -think it and <br />re -submit it at a,later date more appropriately refined." <br />10/18/79 - Mr. Wright, representing Mystic Valley Mental Health Association, asked <br />if it was possible for the Board to consider the much needed sign inasmuch as the <br />letter of withdrawal did not include the petition for the sign. <br />Decision filed with the Town Clerk. <br />186 Bedford St. - granted unanimously the request to withdraw petition for altera- <br />tions and re -building of the current structure on Bedford St. without prejudice. <br />- granted unanimously the request for a standing sign. <br />The meeting adjourned at 9:02 p.m. <br />Respectfully submitted, <br />1 ��,� (fotc— <br />Evelyn F. Cole <br />Administrative Clerk <br />BOARD OF APPEALS <br />