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PLANNING BOARD MEETING March 21, 1960 A regular meeting of the Lexington Plan- ning Board was held. in the Planning Board's Office, Town Office Building, on Tlondav, March 21, 1960 at 7:30 a.m. Present were Chairman Burnell, Members Grindle, Mabee, Meyer and Soule, and Planning Director Snow. The Board considered and approved the minutes of the public hearing held by the Board on March 8, PROPOSED 1960. Considered also and approved by the Board were ZONING drafts of Planning Board reports on Articles 52 and BY-LAW 53 in the warrant for the Annual Town Meeting to be AMENDMENTS held on March 21, 1960. (See addendum.) The meeting adjourned at 7:50 p.m. so that members of the Board could attend said Town Meeting. �..._:y IV. In ' Irving H. Mabee Clerk ADDENDUM Lexington Planning Board Report on the Amendment to the Zoning By-law Proposed by Article 52. On March 8, 1960 at 8:00 p.m. the Planning Board held a public hearing on the proposal to amend the Lexing- ton Zoning By-law set forth in Article 52 of the Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting on March 21, 1960. Sixteen persons attended the hearing due notice of which was given according to law. At the close of the hearing an expres- sion of opinion by those present showed 14 persons in favor and no persons opposed to the amendment as presented. The proposal involves the amendment of the provisions pertaining to special permits which may be granted for uses In R 1 districts by the Board of Appeals under paragraph (a) 7, of Section 5, Permitted Buildings and Uses. The amend- ment would delete subparagraph a of paragraph 7. ' The present by-law gives the Board of Appeals dis- cretionary authority to grant special permits for property in R 1, single family residential districts, to be used for