Lampert v. Town of Hudson

The Town of Hudson (town) appeals the Superior Court’s (Murphy, J.) grant of the plaintiffs’ motion for summary *197judgment. The superior court reversed a decision of the Hudson planning board (board). The board had approved the plaintiffs’ site plan subject to the condition that the plaintiffs pay a “corridor allocation procedure fee,” also known as an impact fee, designed to allocate the predicted expense of improvements and increased services resulting from the applicants’ development. For the reasons set forth below, we reverse and remand.

The plaintiffs, Alan G. Lampert and Alan V. Ligouri,…