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BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING
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AUGUST 6, 1936.
A meeting of the Board of Appeals was held in the
Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building, at 8:00 P.M. Messrs.
Glynn, Kimball, Robbins, Steeves and Lyons were present. Mr.
Glynn acted as Chairman Pro -tem in the absence of Mr.
Maddison. The Acting Secretary was also present.
At 8:00p P.Y. hearing was declared open on the application
of Charles IN. Ryder for permission to maintain a real estate
office and sign 9'x 9 feet for a term of two years.
No persons appeared in favor or in opposition.
Upon motion of Mr. Lyons, seconded by Mr. Kimball, the
reading of the notice was waived.
Mr. Glynn stated that in 1934, Mr. Ryder was granted a
license to maintain the real estate office for one year and
the sign for two years. He stated that under Section 9D,
a permit for the office could only be granted for one year.
The Board discussed the matter and it was their opinion
' that the license for the sign should also be granted for one
year only. The application requested a sign 9 x 9 feet, but
it was noted that the previous license for a sign granted
permission for a sign 9 x 6 feet.
Upon motion of Mr. Lyons, seconded by Mr. Kimball, it
was unanimously voted to grant the permit for a real estate
office for one year, and a sign, 9 x 6 feet, for one year,
in the following form:
BOARD OF APPEALS PERMIT.
The Board of Appeals, acting under General Laws, Chapter
40, Sec. 27, having received a written petition addressed to
It by Charles W. Ryder a copy of which is hereto annexed,
held a public hearing thereon of which notice was mailed
to the petitioner and to the ouvners of all property deemed
by the Board to be affected thereby as they appear on the
most recent local tax list and also advertised in the Lex-
ington Minute-1.1an, a newspaper published in Lexington, which
hearing was held in the Selectmen's Room, in the Town Office
Building on the 6th day of August, 1936.
Two associate and three members of the Board of Appeals
were present at the hearing. A certificate of notice is
a, hereto annexed. At this hearing evidence was offered on
behalf of the petitioner tending to show: That he desired
to maintain an office building approximately 12 x 16 feet on
the development at Waltham Street and Winthrop Road extension;
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also a sign 9 x 9 ft. and desired a permit for two years. '
No one appeared in opposition.
At the close of the hearing the Board in private
session August 6th, 1936, gave consideration to the subject
of the petition and voted unanimously in favor of the
following findings;
1. That in its judgment the public convenience and
welfare will be substantially served by the making of the
exception requested.
2. That the exception requested will not tend to
impair the status of the neighborhood.
3. That the exception requested will be in harmony
with the general purposes and intent of the regulations
in the Lexington Zoning By-law.
4. That owing to conditions especially affecting the
said parcel but not affecting generally the Zoning district
in which it is located, a literal enforcement of the prov-
isions of the Lexington Zoning By-law as to the locus in
question would involve substantial hardship to the petitioner
and that desirable relief may be granted without substantially 1
derogating from the intent or purpose of such Lexington
Zoning By-law.
Pursuant to the said findings, the Board hereby unani-
mously decides that the application of the said Lexington
Zoning By-law is hereby varied so far as may be necessary
to permit Charles W. Ryder to maintain the existing real
estate office situated at the corner of Waltham Street and
Winthrop Road extension and that this building shall be used
only for the purpose of selling lots situated in the sub-
division on which it is located; also a reale state sign not
greater than 9 feet long by six feet in height advertising
only the sub -division on which it is located, and set back
at least forty feet from Waltham Street and twenty feet from
Winthrop Road extension, both of tle se structures for a
period of one year. Both structures shall be maintained in
a state of repair satisfactory to the Building Inspector and
shall be removed from the property upon the expiration of the
above permit or any succeeding permits.
The Board hereby makes a detailed record of all its
proceedings relative to such petition and hereby sets
forth that the reasons for its decision are its findings
hereinbefore set forth and the testiilony presented at '
the said hearing, including that herein summarized, and
directs that this record immediately f ollowIng this decision
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' shall be filed in the office of the Town Clerk of Lexington
and shall be open to public inspection and that notice of
this decision shall be mailed forthwith to each party in
interest.
BOARD OF A-�:LUS OF LEXINGTON
(Appointed under G. L. Ch. 40, Sec. 27)
C. Edward Glynn
Edward UJ. Kimball
Howard W. Robbins
Clyde E. Steeves
John A. Lyons
I, Howard W. Robbins, Clerk of the Board of Appeals
of Lexington, appointed under General Laws, Chapter 40,
Section 27, hereby certify that I sent by postage certificate
of mailing on the 25th day of July, 1936, to Arthur N. &
Minnie C. D. Maddison, Ada H. Rowse, Beatrice H. Lamont,
William H. Driscoll, Annie Harrington, Grace P. Brown,
Louella F. Morang, Florence Sullivan, Tr., Harold C. & Alice
L. Ashley, Minola M. Black, Marion Brown, Henry C. & Della
M. Gadd, Mildred M. Hilliard, Ashburn C. Kilgour, Kenneth C.
& Lillian A. F. Ringer, Abbie E. S4 -evens., Ellen S. Trowbridge,
J. Joseph & Anne T. Hurley, Beatrice F. Morse, Florence L.
Nickerson, Blanch T. Nilson, Anne F. Rudd, Margaret M.
Gallagher, Daisy MacAlpine, Arthur C. ° Dorothea Dodge,
Ridhard J. Burke, Camillo & Elisa Appollonio, Gaetano &
Berta Francescelli, Rachela Belcastro, George Givan, Mary
Marshall, Edward F. Rogers, Wallace P. Lyon, Jennett L.
Bennett, Henry W. B. Cotton, Louise J. Carter, Lulu M. Blake,
George H. Peterson, Stella M. & Frank P. Herrick, Elizabeth
F. McIntosh, Anna N. Lane, Mary S. H. Ellis, Mildred Beatty,
Charles D. W iswell, Tr., Alice M. & Albert A. Ross, Florence
A. Gilcreast, Walter G. Black, George H. & Emma A. Gibson,
Clarrie H. Mulliken, John E. A. Mulliken, William E. Mulliken
and Charles W. Ryder, and also advertised in the Lexington
Minute -Man on July 23, 1936, a notice of which the following
is a true copy.
Howard W. Robbins,
Clerk, Board of Appeals.
July 20, 1936.
Lexington Board of Zoning Appeals
Town Office Building
Lexington, buss.
' Gentlemen:
The undersigned hereby petition the Lexington Board of
Appeals, appointed under General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 27,
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to vary the application of section 9D of the Lexington '
Zoning By-law with respect to the premises at corner of
Waltham St. and Vinthrop Road Extension owned by Charles
Vi. Ryder of Lexington, Mass., by permitting the following;
Real Estate Office and sign 9 x 9 for a term of two years.
C. 'X. Ryder (Signature)
277 Waltham St. (Address)
Lexington, Mass.
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Lexington, Mass.
July 23, 1936.
The Board of Appeals will hold a hearing on the matter
of varying the application of the Zoning Law by permitting
on the premises owned by Charles W. Ryder and located at
the corner of Waltham Street and Winthrop Road Extension,
Lexington, the maintenance of a real estate officd and
sign, 9 x 9 feet, under the Lexington Zoning Law, or in
accordance with Chapter 40, Section 27A of the General
Laws, and amendments.
The hearing will be held on August 6, 1936, at 8:00
P.M., in the Selectments Room, Town Office Building, ,
Lexington, Mass.
Arthur N. Maddison,
Chairman, Board of Appeals.
The records of the meeting of July 30, 1936 were
approved.
The meeting adjourned at 8:35 P.M.
A true record, Attest;
lerk.