Granite State Minerals, Inc. v. City of Portsmouth

The plaintiff, Granite State Minerals, Inc. (Granite State) appeals the Superior Court’s (McHugh, J.) denial of its motion for summary judgment and subsequent dismissal of its appeal of a decision of the Portsmouth Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA), which denied the plaintiff’s request for variances to add three stories to its existing structure. Granite State argues that it may add the three floors requested without a variance. The defendant, the City of Portsmouth (the City), and the intervenors, in addition to their general opposition to Granite State’s argument, cross-appeal, maintaining…