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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1960-04-12b BOARD OF APPEALS HEARINGS April 12, 1960 The Board of Appeals held hearings on Tuesday, April 12, 1960, in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building, on the following petitions: Russell E. Carroll - to operate a dry cleaning business at 168 Bedfor or purpose of cleaning and refinishing clothing and other miscellaneous items. Joseph A. Busa - to operate a roadside stand on farmland, 52 Lowell Sts, for the sale of produce and flowers grown on premises. Oriel Defelice Jr. - to build a single family dwelling on Lots 1-3 corner U -Med aw Myrtle Sts. with 16'10" from chimney to side street line. Ra�ther�n_Oesman - to subdivide a parcel of land at 960 Waltham St. into two lots each the area required but having insufficient frontage. J. S. Nason Whitney'- to erect an additoion to a dwelling at 21 Woodla oa w chi w- not have the required setback and side yard. Lawrence V. Giusti, Jr. - to build a ranch type house on Lot 1 ' and paA__oT Lot 2 In Block 31, next to resident at 22 Burlington st. which would be 25 ft. from the street instead of the required 30 ft. and the side yard would be 8 ft. Walter G. Black - to subdivide lot at corner of 11 Highland Ave.and Minola Rd'�Me within the lot existing garage structure with a rear yard of 8 ft; and also for permission to erect dwelling on Lot 1A which would not have required side yard. Neither lot would comply with area requirements. At the close of the hearings an Executive Session was held during which the following decisions were reached: Russell E. Carroll - denied Joseph A. Busa - granted Onel Defelice, Jr. —granted Kathryn Oesman - granted J. S. Nason Whitney - granted Lawrence V. Giusti, Jr. - granted Walter G. Black - denied All pertinent material with regard to the above petitions is on file in each individual folder. Ruth C. Brodhead, Clerk April 12, 1960 Joseph A. Busa Nickerson: Notice read. Mr. Busa, have you drawings showing what you want to do? You applied for this latt year and you were granted a permis- sion. You did not build. What do you want to do now? Buss: We just want to sell right from the farm and in the building there. Nickerson: What do you want to erect? Buss: Well, I made a mistake. I just want to operate. Nickerson: I understand that you do not wish to erect aW stand at all? You will sell this material from your buildings? Busa: .What they want to do is pick it up from the greenhouses themselves. Ripley: In the first place, it isn't a stand. From what I have seen of these things I would say you didn't need a permit. The minute you build a building you do have to come in and ask for a hearing. Baca: We were informed that we did have to have a permit to sell anything that we raised. Nickerson: I think we would have to give them a permission to operate. Ripley: Will you have any counters or display? Buaa: We will pat one in there. Ripley: In an already existing building? That could be called a stand. Buss: We just want to use one of the buildings that we have down there now Floor: As I understand it, you propose to use a structure 180 ft. within the farmland to sell your goods. You don't propose to erect a stand. Nickerson: I think you may be going to register opposition. The petition was confusing. I will clarify the facts. He does not Vi.sh to erect a buildingand if we grant this petition we will exclude those words. Floor: If you grant that what is to prevent him from coming up to 50 ft. from the road? Nickerson: He has made the statement that this is an existing building 180 ft. from the road, and we will so specify if we grant this petition. Does embody wish to speak in opposition as it is rephrased? Floor: Is it going to be a remodelled building? Buss: Do you know the building that you can see from the street? Floor: What about the parking facilities? Are they going to be allowed to park all along that street? It is a bottle -neck and a traffic hazard. 300 gri Nickerson: You are Mrs. ? Floor: Mrs. Allen. ' Nickerson: You are registering opposition? Allen: Yes. Nickerson: People don't walk 180 ft. these days and they will drive right In. Busa: There is enough space for at least 100 cars. Nickerson: Would you engage to try to keep your customers off the street? Busa: All the old buildings are coming down. Allen ; What is to be sold? Only farm products or things brought in? Nickerson: We know that all roadside stands are transgressing their per- missions. We don't like it but we can't send an enforcement officer out for all these. I have an idea that Mr. Busa will want to sell just what he raises. Busa: I would like to say something $tout the Xmas trees. That was some- body else outside the family. Nickerson: Does anybody else wish to speak in opposition? , Volante; 85 Lowell St. I think that if I had known I was buying a homes next to a business I wouldn't have bought. From what I have seen from roadside stands they are a traffic hazard and a danger to small children. I think there are about 20 or 30 others who signed the petition register- ing their disapproval and I would like that read into the minutes. Nickerson: Would you know whether they did it because they thought a new building was going to be built there? Floor: Yes, that is right. All they really raise are tomatoes and celery. Everything else is brought in. He couldn't possibly exist on the products he raises. This big parking area will be across the street from our home. This will decrease the value of our property. We also want to know how people are going to know that there is a stand there without a sign. We will be getting the brant of that traffic. Nickerson: I am doubtful if Mr. Busa really has to come into us to son from his own property. The only reason is to erect a stand but he is going to sell fro& his greenhouse. Alice Monahan: We mm an entire block and we would like to start doing what Mr. Busa is doing and there are other families in the neighborhood, but we would refrain if Mr. Busa would so the whole neighborhood would go ' up instead of down. Nickerson: You requested 3 stands last year. 301 Busa - 2 - 1gonahan - Yes. We own on 3 streets. Floor: The school bras pulls in there too and I should think that would be a danger. Floor: I aim worried about the safety of my child. Nickerson:, You should have realised that these people can dispose of theit products. The farms were here a long while ago. Anybody else in opposi- tion? Monahan: This notice specifies that he is to sell products he raises on his premises. Nickerson: You have a perfect right to turn him in to the Building in- spector. I said we couldn't be sending an enforcement officer around but any complaint that is registered the Building Inspector is immediately sent out. You neighbors have to do the complaining. Floor: Will there be any parking restrictions? Nickerson: I just said that if Mr. Boss, has a building that is 180 ft. from the street that I don't think they will park their cars on Lowell St. and walk down. Are you willing to say that you will see to it that your customers don't park an Lowell St.? ' Busa: We have enough space dawn in back. Last year there was no parking problem at all. In fact, we didn't sell anything on Sunday. Floor: Mr. Busa continually puts out signs. Nickerson: If Mr. Busa erected a sign he will be directed to take it down. Anybody else in opposition? The hearing is closed. 1 303 1 April 12, 1960 Russell E. Carroll Nickerson: Notice read. Mr. Carroll, do you want to amplify this request and tell us more fully what part of the building you waht to use for it? Carroll: The front would be used for finished garments and the back would be used for the production of the cleaning. Nickerson: You are 168 Bedford St. That is the part furthest away from the center? Carroll: Yes. Nickerson: You say that you would do your processing on the bacl side? Carroll: It would figure about half of the storage area. Nickerson: The front part for the sales? What type of cleaning process do you use? Carroll: The perchlorethylene, non -inflammable. Nickerson: How many people would you employ? ' Carroll: I would say four. Nickerson: You would operate this establishment for what hours? Carroll: 8 to 6, 6 days a week. Nickerson: Is there a basement under the building? Carroll: Yes. Norris: You will occupy that? Carroll: It is not definite but we probably will. Nickerson: Have you considered what you would want for a sign? Carroll: The tenants can only have a certain type of sign I understand. Nickerson: You had better look into that. Odors? Carroll: No more than you would get in any other cleaning plant. As you are pressing clothes there is a slight odor. They have equipment today that even traps that. Nickerson: Further questions? ' Ripley: This is a complete moving, or would it be a branch? Carroll: It would be a branch. 4304 n Nickerson: Where is your main store? Carroll: 1806 Mass. Ave. ' Norris: All the cleaning would be concentrated in this new store? Carroll: Yes. Nickerson: Any further questions from the Board? Anybody in favor? Floor: What type of venting do you intend to use? Would there bs any steam? Carroll: There might be, like a fog. There is a stairwell going to the basement, and it would come somewhere there and come out at the top of the building. Floor: He speaks of a steam ventilator in the cellar. How big is this? Carroll: 10 horsepower boiler. Instead of being a long tubular boiler it generates steam through a coil. Redman: What is the situation up there for handling traffic? Donald MacKay: We have ample parking within the town regulations. Nickerson: Is it just that your lot is 3 times as big as your building? ' Wasn't construction delayed until that rule was settled? Floor: Are there to be signs on Bedford St. and Reed St.? 'People going in on Bedford St. and Reed St.? Nickerson: There could, be. Ripley: Is the parking space based on a 2-1 ratio? Carroll: It is not my intention to put any signs on the Reed St. aide. Richter: How would the cars enter? The a is going to be a traffic hazard Carroll: It is zoned for business. Floor: Another question on this steam business. Does this steam came out in a puff? Is there noise connected with it? Carroll: At present I use a type where there is a noise. With normal traffic noise it wouldntt be noticeable. Floor It seems to me that there is a question here of odor and noise. Carroll: The same type of operation as is done in the best hotels in the country. I Nickerson: It is not customary to have so may questions asked. I would Carroll -2- suggest that instead of asking further questions you register in favor or opposition. Does anybody wish to speak in opposition? Kenneth Pascoe: The reasonable possibility of odor and noise. Peterson: The question of traffic. Obviously there will be a traffic problem there. It seems to me with a cleaning establishment this involves cars going in and out constantly, would have to cross the sidewalk. For that reason and the danger t children I am opposed. In addition, if you grant permission for a variance it seems to me,that it is more like],y other variances could be granted in the future. Nickerson: (reads from zoning by-law about C 1 districts) Does anybody else wish to speak? Marion Hyatt: I am about 10 ft. away from:the store. I have no objection to a pick-up station and it would be preferable to have some other type of business. Floor: We are suspicious of the promises and proposals and we are alarmed and I am against it. Bernice Richter: 10 Carley Rd. I wish to register in opposition. Horner Bartram, 9 Reed. St. ' Harold Nielson: If the parking doesn't meet the 2-1 I am against it. Nancy Savage: In opposition - also Mrs. Pfister, Petroska, Jean Peterson, Lester Savage, Eugene Richter, Lester Savage, Sr. (not a resident) Nickerson: We will declare the hearing closed. 1 305