Madigan v. Zoning Board of Appeals

We believe everyone’s difficulty with paragraph (d) of § 31 of the zoning ordinance has resulted largely from taking that paragraph out of its context. The concluding portion of § 30 of the ordinance (see exhibit B attached to the plaintiff’s affidavit) sets out a number of main uses in connection with which an owner must provide off-street parking, as well as the minimum number of parking spaces required in connection with each such use; some of those uses require a license for the parking spaces from the license board (see G. L. c. 148, § 56, as amended), while others do not. Paragraphs (a)…