Enos v. City of Brockton

This petition was brought in the Land Court under G. L. c. 240, § 14A, and G. L. c. 185, § 1 (j ½) to determine the validity of § 11B (e) of the zoning ordinance of the city of Brockton. The case was heard on a statement of agreed facts which the judge adopted as his findings. He ruled that § 11B (e) was valid. The case is here on the petitioner’s exceptions to this and other rulings.

The petitioner is the owner of a freehold estate in possession in certain land in the city of Brockton, upon which he desires to build multiple dwellings. He has been informed by the city’s building inspector…