Zoning
August 5, 2025 / August 5, 2025 by Tess Edwards | Leave a Comment
Last week, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) reversed an Appeals Court panel in a strongly-worded decision concerning abutter standing to appeal a zoning decision, Stone v. Zoning Bd. of Appeals of Northborough (pdf). The plaintiff abutters appealed a use variance that the Town of Northborough Zoning Board of Appeals granted to Cable Matters Inc. […]
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March 5, 2021 by Joel Quick | Leave a Comment
A recent decision of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, Porter v. Board of Appeal of Boston (pdf), addressed the question of standing to appeal a variance granted by the Board of Appeal of Boston (“BOA”). Zoning in Boston is governed by c. 665 of the Acts of 1956, as amended (the “Enabling Act”), not by M.G.L. c. […]
March 9, 2020 / March 11, 2020 by Donald R. Pinto, Jr. | Leave a Comment
In what passes for high drama in the world of Massachusetts land use law, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), after hearing oral argument last Thursday in an important case involving standing in zoning appeals, entered an order the next day reversing the Appeals Court decision under review and reinstating the trial court’s decision dismissing the […]
