HomeMy WebLinkAbout1977-12-13 BOARD OF APPEALS
December 13, 1977
The Board of Appeals met at 7 20 p m. on Tuesday, December 13, 1977, in the
Selectmen's Meeting Room, Town Office Building
Present George P Wadsworth, Chairman
Ruth Morey, Vice Chairman
Woodruff M. Brodhead
Thomas G Taylor
Irving H Mabee
William J Scouler, Associate
Natalie H Riffin, Associate
A photograph was taken for the Annual Town Report
Public hearings were held on the following petitions, notices of the hearings
having been mailed and hearings advertised in the Lexington Minute-Man newspaper
as required by statute Sitting for these hearings were Mr Wadsworth, Mrs
Morey, Mr Brodhead, Mr Taylor and Mr Scouler Others left the meeting
Moore Homes, Inc - special permit, pursuant to Lexington sign by-laws, to erect
a free standing sign at Fiske Common, 31 East Street
William F Butterfield and Mary L Butterfield - variance to subdivide a parcel of
land located at 11 Kimball Road into two lots shown as Lots 29 and 30 on a plan
entitled "Plot Plan of Land in Lexington," dated October 21, 1977, Albert A. Miller
and Wilbur C Nylander, C E and Surveyors, each of which would have a frontage on
Kimball Road of seventy-five (75' ) feet and an area of 9375 square feet, and to
maintain the existing dwelling on Lot 29 Petitioners' deed dated September 24,
1964, refers to "Two certain lots of land in said Lexington, being shown as Lots
29 and 30 on a Plan entitled "Land of Ernest E MacPhee at Lexington, July, 1929,
F P Cutter, C.E " and it appears that said plan as recorded at the Registry of
Deeds, which subdivided abutting land into 75 foot lots did not properly identify
Lots 29 and 30
Boston Urban Associates, Agents for Hayden Office Trust - variance under Section
12 3 Variances of the Zoning By-law, the right to vary Section 32 2 Schedule of
Dimensional Restrictions for Parking and Loading Location of Property North-
easterly side of Hayden Avenue running 706 02 in a Northeasterly direction from a
point near the intersection of Hardy's Brook (so-called) and Hayden Avenue The
parcel of land contains 6 4672 acres and is shown on a certain plan entitled "An
Office Complex for Hayden Office Trust, Lexington, Massachusetts", Symes, Maini
and McKee, Inc Architects and Engineers dated October 21, 1977
The petitioner seeks to modify a variance granted to Boston Urban Associates
by decision of this Board on April 21, 1977 wherein the said Boston Urban Associ-
ates were permitted to locate parking for nineteen (19) cars twenty-five (25)
feet distant from the Northeasterly boundary of the property rather than the
fifty (50) feet adjacent to a residential district boundary; said modification is
to permit parking for nineteen (19) cars ten (10) feet distant from the Northeast-
erly boundary of the property rather than fifty (50) feet The modification will
permit the easterly parking area to be separated from Hardy's Brook by an additional
thirty-five (35) feet Total parking area will not be increased
Boston Urban Associates is a Massachusetts business trust under a declaration
of trust dated July 2, 1970 and are managing agents for Hayden Office Trust, Edward
H. Linde and Mortimer B Zuckerman, Trustees, who hold legal title to said property
Board of Appeals Hearings December 13, 1977 (continued) -2
J fferson Union Company, a Massachusetts Corporation having a usual place of
business in Lexington, to continue the use of variances previously granted to
G Ruth and Paul J McCormack in 1959 and 1973 to use the land and buildings
now numbered 789 Massachusetts Avenue in said Lexington under the uses permitted
in Sections 25 40, 25 41 and 25 42 of the Zoning By-laws
James B Hansen et als - to rescind the granting of a building permit by the
building department, issued to Lexington Gardens on 30 September 1977, for the
construction of two new greenhouses
DECISIONS The Board made the following decisions, all in open meeting See
decisions filed with the Town Clerk and in Board of Appeals' files for more
details
Moore - denied unanimously
Butterfield - granted unanimously
Boston Urban - granted unanimously
Jefferson Union - granted unanimously
Hansen - withdrawn by those making appeal (building permit returned)
The meeting adjourned at 9 30 p m.
Respectfully submitted,
' Evelyn F Cole, Administrative Clerk