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Mass. Appeals Court Clarifies How Zoning Cases Can – and Can’t – Be Settled

The Massachusetts Appeals Court recently decided that a settlement agreement resolving a zoning case brought by the Town of Bourne did not prevent neighbors from obtaining zoning enforcement inconsistent with that settlement. The case, Stevens v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Bourne, involved the use of a property in a residential zoning district as a wedding venue (commercial uses were not allowed). There were two sequential cases involving challenges to the use....
By: Pierce Atwood LLP
Source Url: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/mass-appeals-court-clarifies-how-zoning-30136/

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