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! • HIST1JEtIC DISTRICTS COMi~SSION A meeting of the tiistorio Districts Commission was held at 7s45 P.M. on Wednesday,. Maresh 14, 1973,. i.n tlxe Seleotmen''s Meeting Room, Town Offiae Building, Lexington. Present xere Commisaionera Wilbur M. Jaquith, Chair man; George E. Graves; Georgia H. Williams; and Associate Commiaai~enera S. Laxrenae Whipple and Royston T. Daley.. Mr, Whipple xas appointed to serve for Commissioner Philip H. Parsons xho xas unable to be present. Mr. Daley was appointed to serge for Commissioner Donald J. Shaw xho was unable to be present. Mr. Whipple moved and Mr. Graves seconded the motion that Georgia H. Williams serve as 3earstary Pro Tem. The motion was so V02ED. A hearing wag held at 7s55 P.M. on the application of Behead Birang d/b/a Aref Oriental Rugs for a Certificate of Appropriateness with respect to the erection and display of a sign for the store at 5 Mariam Street, xhioh is within the Battle Green District. Mr. Jaquith read the legal no-~ tioe and application xhiah had been aubmi.tted by Ernest A. Giroux, Trustee of Minute Man Park Realty Trust. Carl Severo of Metal Letters Corporation submitted three scale draxings of the proposed sign and said that the lets tars would be identical to to the letters of the otter signs on the buildw ing. Mr. ffirang asked about a neon sign for the interior of the store and Mr. Jaquith said that the Commission had no control over interior signs. Mr. Jaquith suggested that lighting banging rugs might be more effective and also stated that the tenants should push for better exterior lighting of the signs. The hearing xas closed at 8s i0 P.M. A hearing xas held at 8a 12 P.M. on the application of the Intercul tnral Studies Group of Boston d/b/a Ameriaan Indian Place far a Certifiaate of Appropriateness with respeat to the erection and display of a sign for the store at ? Mariam Street, which is within the Battle Green District. Mr. Jaquith read the legal notice and referred to the letter of Mr. Giroux read earlier xhich contained the application for this hearing. A latter from Elisabeth Rosenthal., Program Directors xas read stating that she xaa unable to be present and that lSr. $evero of N1~ta1 Letters Corporation ~ would represent her. Mr. Severo stated that this sign also xould have lets tars identical to those aY the other signs on the buil$ing. Ths hearing xas closed at 8s20 P.M. ` It wag moved, seconded, and unanimously VOTED to iaaue a Certificate of Appropria.tenass to Behead Birang dib/a Aref Oriental Raga with respect to the creation and display of a lign for the afore at 5 Mariam Street, which is within the Battle Green District. Participating in this decision ware Commissioners Wilbur M, Jpquith~ George E. Graves, Georgia H. Williams.,. and Associate Commissioners S. Lawrence Whipple and Royston T. Daley. It Kea moved, seeorxied, arsi unanimously VOT1~D to issue a Certificate of Appropriateness to the Intercultural Studies Group of Holton d/b/a American Indian Place with respect to the ereotion and display of a sign for the store at 7 Mariam Street, xhich is within the Battle Green District. Participating in this deoision xere Commissioners Wilbur M. Jaquith, George E. Graves, Georgia H. Williams, acid Associate Commissioners S. Lawrence Whipple and Royston T. Daley.