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PLANNING BOARD HEARING June 13, 1938 ' Present:- Messrs, Greeley, Kimball, Nickerson, Ferguson and Ellis. A public hearing was held under the provisions of Section 17 of the Lexington Zoning By -Law in the Selectmen's Room of the Town Office Building at 8:00 P. M, for the purpose of considering the following proposed amendment to the Lexington Zoning By -Law: - To substitute under Area Regulations, Section 6, a new section 6 to read as follows: Section 6. (a) In R,1 and R,2 Districts no dwelling shall be erected upon land laid out for house lots after the adoption of this by-law unless there be provided for each such dwelling a lot frontage of not less than 100 feet upon the frontage street, and an area of not less than 12,500 square feet. On each side of each dwelling or other permitted main structure there shall be provided a side yard of at least fifteen feet in width, which shall be kept open from the front line of the main structure to the rear line thereof. This paragraph shall not apply to lots of less than 100 foot frontage duly recorded by plan or deed at the time this by-law is adopted, (b) Where a corner lot has its corner bounded by a curved line connecting other bounding lines which if extended would inter- sect, the frohtage and area shall be computed as -if such bounding lines were so extended. The Chairman declared the hearing open at 8:00 P, M, and the Clerk read the notice of hearing which was published in the May 261 1938 issue of the "Lexington Minuteman", t The Chairman explained that the matter to be considered was the same as was presented to the Town at a previous Town Meeting but that the Attorney General refused to approve it because of a technicality. The Planning Board felt th4t the Town favored the proposal so is going to present it again, He asked to hear first from those who favored the proposal and there were none who wished to speak. He then asked for those who were opposed. bIr. Walter Black stated that he did not want to,speak in opposition but would like to see a little more consideration given to side lines, He would like to see the side line fixed at 12 feet and.the setback increased to 35 or 40 feet. He felt that a 20 foot setback meant a poor neighborhood but with 35 or 40 foot setb&'ks there is a very differdlit neighborhood, He felt that it was a. ' hardship to build a garage on -a lot with the side lines fixed at 15 feet.