Whitney Theatre Co. v. Zoning Board of Appeals

Hamden Mart, Inc., owns property at 2300 Dixwell Avenue in Hamden. The property is in a business CA-1 zone. The Hamden zoning regulations do not include an indoor theater among the permissible uses in such a zone. The property embraces about twenty-nine acres of land developed as a shopping center and occupied by twenty-three business establishments, including two department stores, a supermarket, a bank, a gasoline-repair station, a forty-lane bowling alley, a restaurant with a seating capacity for 600 persons and parking facilities for over 2000 automobiles. Hamden Mart, Inc., applied to…