Brockton Public Market, Inc. v. Board of Appeals
Cases that cite this one
5 later published cases cite this decision.
- MacGibbon v. Board of Appeals of Duxbury (Mass. 1976)
- Davis v. Zoning Board of Chatham (Mass. App. Ct. 2001)
- Board of Aldermen v. Maniace (Mass. 1999)
- Board of Appeals v. Boyle (Mass. App. Ct. 1976)
- Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. BD. OF APPEALS OF AMHERST (Mass. 1971)
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Opinion of the Court
This is an appeal from a final decree of the Superior Court that the board of appeals of the town of Sharon did not exceed its authority in denying a special permit for the construction of “a gasoline filling station within a parking lot of a shopping center in a Business District zone.” “The evidence . . . consisted of five exhibits, one of which is a Stipulation.” The parties also orally agreed on an additional fact. The trial judge’s ruling that the plaintiff does not have “an absolute right to a special permit” is correct. Gulf Oil Corp. v. Board of Appeals of Framingham 355 Mass. 275, 277. Likewise, there was no error in holding that the refusal to grant a special permit did not require detailed findings by the board of appeals. Ferrante v. Board of Appeals of Northampton, 345 Mass. 158, 162.
Decree affirmed.
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