Todd v. Board of Appeals of Yarmouth

This is an appeal from a decree of the Superior Court which annulled a decision of the board of appeals of the town of Yarmouth permitting certain uses of land zoned for residential use under the zoning by-law first adopted in 1946. The appellants are the board of appeals and the intervener, one Maki. The plaintiff, as the judge found, owns adjoining residential land. Maki, according to the decision of the board, requested a “permit” to use property owned by one Platani at Highland and Bellevue avenues, South Yarmouth, “for boat rentals, sales and service of boats, motors and of boating and…