D'Addario v. Planning & Zoning Commission

The plaintiffs in these two cases brought administrative appeals to the trial court from a 1985 zone change enacted by the defendant planning and zoning commission of the town of Darien (commission).1 The trial court sustained the plaintiffs’ appeals, holding that the action of the commission in rezoning a certain area from commercial to residential amounted to a taking of properties without just compensation in violation of both the state and federal constitutions.2 Upon certification from this court, the commission appealed.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the trial court…