Soares v. Town of Atkinson

This case involves a challenge to the constitutionality of the Atkinson land use ordinances, which allegedly were exclusionary. The Superior Court {Gray, J.) approved a report of the Master {R. Peter Shapiro, Esq.) finding that the ordinances were unconstitutional and ordering the town to revise them appropriately. On appeal, after briefing and oral argument, we remanded the case for the limited purpose of having the master rule on whether a subsequent change in the ordinance made the constitutional claims moot. Soares v. Town of Atkinson, 128 N.H. 350, 512 A.2d 436 (1986). The master…