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HISTORIC DISTRICTS COMt~ffSSION The Historic Districts Commission ~t on Wednesday, July 18, 1973. At ?:~5 P.M. outside the Selectmen~s Meet~l.ng Roam, Toxn Office Building, Wilbur M. Jaquith, Chairman, said, "I hereby ad3ourn all hearings scheduled for the Selectman`s Meeting Room on July 1$, 1973 'fa be heard in Room G~15, Town Of- fice Building". Present were Commissioners Wilbur M. Jaquith, Chairman= Philip B. Parsons, Secretary= Donald J. Shaw; Georgia H. Williams; and Asso- mate Commissioners S. Lawrence Whipple and Royston T. Daley. The Chairman appointed Mr. Whipple to serve for Commissioner Thomas J. Hol~bog who xas unable to be present. Two hearings were bald at 8s00 P.M, Mr. Jaquith read the legal notice and the application for the erection and display of signs for Chung K, and Sarah Kim d/b/a House of Kim at 7 Mariam Street and Donald M. Rove d/b/a Music Alley at 21-23 Depot Square, which are within the Battle Green Dis- trict. Mr. Carl Severo of I~tal Letters Corporation submitted three scale drawings of each sign. Mrs. Kim was also present. Mr. Severo said fleet the sign for House of Kim world be 8'8" in length and the sign for Music Alley would be 13• in length. The hearings were closed at 8ii0 P.M. Mr. Daley said that he had been in Wickford, Rhode Island, which is part of North Kingston, and that the main street in lined on both sides with colonial, houses. Ile said that only one of the pauses has alumirnun siding and that it is quite obvious from across the street. Mr. Whipple said that the Ataarioan gas station i.n Concord between Mariam Corner and the Antiquarian Society has a very attractive woad sign with Bald lettering and that he would like to see similar signs in Lexington. It was moved, seconded, and unanimDUS1y VOTED to issue a Certificate of Appropriateness to Chung K. and Sarah Kim d/b/a House of Kim for the erec- tion and display of a sign for the store at 7 Mariam Street, which is within the Battle Green District. Participating in this decision were Commissioners Wilbur M. Jaquith. Phil3.p B. Parsons, Donald J. Shaw, Georgia H. Williams, and Associate Commissioner S. Lawrence Whipple. It was moved, seconded, and unanimously YOTED to issue a Certificate of Appropriateness to Donald M. Raun dib/a Music Alley for the erection and display of a sign for the store at 21-23 Depot Square, which is within the Battle Green Districet. Participating in this decision were Commissioners , Wilbur M. Jaquith, Philip B. Parsons, Donald J. Shaw, Georgia H. Williams, and Associate Commissioner Lawrence Whipple. Hearings were held at 8s 25 P.M. on the applications of Vincent Frawmeni djb/a Le2d.ngton Maws Cinema= Jean-Alain Dupon d/b/a Le Bellecour Rsstanrant; Alice Iwasa d/b/a Mother Earth Natural Foods= Marius Darrow dib/a Little Professor Book Centers, Inca and Lois Ernst Associates, Realtors, for the erection and display of signs for the building at 1012 l~sey Street, which