Recreation Committee
Town of Lexington, Massachusetts


12 April, 2003. 

Dear Members of the Committee, 


The BHNA is pleased with the attention your committee has focused 
on the issue of noise from the tennis court's bang-board.  

Given the well-documented evidence of excessive noise presented at 
your last hearing by one of our members, Richard Petrasso, we feel 
it is important that the Town adopt a long-term solution that brings 
the noise into compliance with Lexington by-laws.  Richard has 
presented suggestions that would solve the problem at a cost of 
$3,000-$10,000.   In the light of the much larger recent investments 
for race track and tennis court renovations, we feel that this small 
additional expense is completely justified.  We especially favour 
the purchase of a new bang-board made of noise-reducing material 
for two reasons.  Such a board would solve the problem in the long 
term, and the expense is very likely to be recovered in a few years 
by savings on maintenance, given the more durable nature of 
modern materials.   

We also feel that it is essential that a short-term arrangement 
be made to reduce the annoyance to the tennis court's abutters, 
until a long-term solution is put into effect.  In particular, 
we would support a reduction by half an hour in the bang-board's
permitted hours of use in the morning, to 8am on weekdays and
9am on weekends.


Sincerely,



Joseph Lehár, 33 Parker St, Lexington,
for the directors of the BHNA, 
after a vote on 11 April 2003.