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PUBLIC HEARING BY PLANNING BOARD <br />October 13, 1933 <br />MARY A. WHELAN PETITION <br />' A public hearing was held by the Planning Board was held in the <br />Selectmen's Room of the Town Office Building on the evening of Oct- <br />ober 13, 1933, on petition of Mary A. Whelan, for consideration of <br />a proposed change from an R-1 to a 0-1 District of the parcel of land <br />ddsoribed as follows : <br />Property numbered 259 Bedford'Street, and lots adjacent thereto; <br />being lots 30,31,32,33, and 34 on plan of Sunnyfield, Lexington, <br />Massachusetts, duly recorded with Middlesex South Registry <br />District Deeds as follows: <br />"Southwesterly by Bedford Street 170.58 feet; southeasterly <br />by right-of-way 161.16 feet; norkheasterly by Ivan Street <br />179 feet; northwesterly by lots 29 and 35 as shown on said <br />plan 142.03 feet." <br />Board members present were Messrs. Duffy, Glynn, Kimball, Milne, <br />and Robinson; also the secretary. <br />Mr. Duffy opened the hearing by reading the legal notice whaah had <br />' been published two successive weeks in the local newspaper, and had <br />been sent to 197 property owners; and the petition which was signed <br />by Mary A. Whelan and Neil McIntosh, with signatures of owners of what <br />was certified to be more than 50% in valuation of property within the <br />area ddsignated by the Board. <br />Mr. Pierre A. Northrup appeared as attorney for Miss Whelan, and <br />stated that the property named in the petition is located on Bedford <br />Street 1i mile from the center of the Town, in a residential zone but <br />in an area not wholly residential because in the immediate neighborhood <br />is the socalled Smith Bell Farm located on the opposite side of the <br />street, and Bean's Golf Range, a 0-1 District, which adjoins the pro- <br />perty on the east. Miss Whelan has operated a tea-room here for two <br />years under a permit from the Board of Appeals; but this year the Town <br />' Counsel had ruled that a permit could not be granted, and she had been <br />informed that a change in zone will be needed if she is to continue to <br />conduct that business in that location. Although the petation asks for <br />