Opinion

Cooke v. Board of Appeal

  • 348 Mass. 792
  • 205 N.E.2d 343
  • 1965 Mass. LEXIS 914
Court
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Filed
Mar 1, 1965
Status
Published
Cited by
0 cases
Authority
More cited than 10.6%

The opinion

Decree affirmed. This is an appeal from a final decree of the Superior Court annulling a decision of the board of appeal of the city of Lowell which granted a special permit for the addition of a building to what had been a preexisting nonconforming use. The trial judge ruled that “the absence of any standards in . . . [the material section] of the by-law is fatal and the by-law in effect is an unlimited delegation of the zoning power to the Board of Appeal.” We agree. We see no need for repeating the legal principle which was correctly stated by the *793 trial judge. Chilson v. Zoning Bd. of Appeal of Attleboro, 344 Mass. 406, 413 . Clark v. Board of Appeals of Newbury, ante, 407, 408-409.

Eugene L. Tougas for the defendants Samuel Cohen & another.

James D. O’Hearn (Francis G. Zaeharer with him) for the plaintiffs.

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