Totty v. Grantham Planning Board

In the fall of 1978 the intervenors, Emil and Tony Hanslin, applied to the Grantham Planning Board for approval of an 89-lot subdivision of a 746-acre parcel with lots ranging from five to twenty-five acres. In February 1979, the board granted conditional approval of the preliminary layout. Thereafter, the plaintiffs, owners of land adjoining the proposed subdivision, filed a petition in the superior court for Sullivan County pursuant to RSA 36:34 (Supp. 1979) claiming that the conditional approval was invalid because two of the five members of the planning board were abutters and therefore…