Jablon v. Town Planning & Zoning Commission

The defendant town planning and zoning commission of the town of Newtown held a public hearing on June 10, 1966, on the application of the defendants John W. Anderson, owner, and Smith, Kline and French Laboratories, optionee, to amend the zoning map by changing the classification of a parcel of Anderson’s land consisting of approximately 47.448 acres from a farming and residential (R-l) district to an M-2 industrial district. Thereafter, at an executive session, the commission granted a change of zone of the tract in question to an M-2A industrial district.1

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The plaintiffs alleged in their…