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PLANNING BOARD HEARING ' PETITION OF ROBERT L. INNIS June 5, 193 A public hearing was held in the SeAeotments Room of the Town Office Building on Monday evening, June 5, 1933, on the petition of Robert L. Innis for a change from a 0-1 Zone to an M-1 Zone of the land bounded by Grant Street, the Boston and Maine Railroad, and property of the Town of Lexington and of Caroline A. Harrington. Mr, Duffy read the petition, and the notice of hearing which had been published in the Lexington Minuteman and also mailed to 122 prgperty owners. The petition was signed by the owners of more than 50% in valua- tion of property in the area which had been designated by the Board, and a certificate to that effect by the Board of Assessors was attached. Mr. Innis explained that he is in partnership with a Mr. McLennan; and that the plan is to tear down the present wooden buildings fronting on Grant Street, replacing them with a brick building which would house an ice -manufacturing plant. He stated that the plant, when in full oper- ation, would make "no more noise than a Singer Sewing -machine." He intro- duced Mr. Ziehmm, anSX engineer representing the Frick Company who are to furnish and install the machinery, consisting of two motor -driven com- pressors with a capacity of twenty-five tons of ice per day. He showed a front elevation of the proposed building, which would cost about $30000. with the equipment; the size of the building id to be 35 feet by 97 feet. Town water is to be used for mak$ ng the ice, and well -water for cooling the compressors. Mr. Innis stated further that the A. G. Davie Ice Co., 'under which name the business is operated, also sells ice in Billerica; -and that at present, because of the burning of their ice -house, they are purchasing ice in North Cambridge. In answer to a question by Mr. Milne, Mr. Ziehmm replied that the length of haul from such source makes little if