Land Use Zoning
June 17, 2025 / June 17, 2025 by Douglas Troyer | Leave a Comment
In a case of significant interest to the legal community and especially to Nantucket property owners, the Land Court recently issued its long-awaited decision in Ward v. Town of Nantucket (pdf) (Ward II), concerning the application of the Town of Nantucket’s zoning bylaw (the Bylaw) to short-term rentals (STRs). The defendant homeowners had been renting […]
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June 7, 2021 by Kathleen Heyer | Leave a Comment
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) today weighed in on the zoning permissibility of short-term rentals, a much-contested and important area of concern. In its decision in Styller v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Lynnfield (pdf), the SJC affirmed a Land Court decision concerning an appeal from a decision of the Lynnfield Zoning Board of […]
