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In reply to Mr. MacNeil's comment that he felt it was in error that the railroad was included in a residential zone, Chairman Adams stated that the town had purposely left the railroad in residential zone as a non -conforming use. Mr. MacNeil was asked if he had given any consideration to requesting the town to re -zone his land for general business use. He replied that he wanted his tract of land between business dis- trict and the railroad station for a grass plot and frontage and not for business. It was pointed out that a re -zoning would affect the set -back requirements of the tract between the two different zones and might remove the necessity of petitioning for a variance. With reference to other problems, Mr. MacNeil said that he thought a three-foot sideyard along the railroad right-of-way was a good idea. He was asked why the plot of land did not extend all the way to the railroad. Mr. MacNeil reported that the railroad wished to keep a strip of land for an extension of the station sidewalk. Upon being questioned as to the location of en - to the proposed building, Mr. MacNeil said that there would be no entrances onto the right-of-way be- tween the building and the Barrett Press and that three entrances to stores would be from the sidewalk with the exception of a service entrance off said right-of-way. Messrs. MacNeil and Morehouse left the meeting at 8:25 p.m. At 8:45 p.m. Mr.Jaquith came to the meeting at which time the Board met with Messrs. McConchie and Nylander who brought to the meeting a preliminary plan for the Robinson Hill, Sec. 3 subdivision accompanied by an application for tentative approval of said plan. After a brief discussion of the plans, the Board took said plans under advisement at the same time asking for a complete plan and profile of the proposed road con- necting with Wingate Road as had been approved. Messrs. McConchie and Nylander left the meeting at 9:10 p.m. The Board next took under consideration four schemes Mr. Silva had presented to the Board at its April 9, 1956 meeting for the development of his land at the end of Snnny Knoll Terrace. It was noted that this dead-end street was somewhat longer than the maximum allowed under the subdivision rules and regu- lations for streets of this type, that an extension to Garfield Street would be approximately 475 feet in length, and that the terrace had no permanent or tem- porary turnaround making it very difficult to plow and ROBINSON HILL SEC. 3 SUNNY KNOLL TERRACE