Sprague v. Town of Acworth

This is an appeal brought by the Town of Acworth from a decision of the Superior Court (Loughlin, C.J.), under RSA 31:78, granting the plaintiff a variance to build a seasonal home on a parcel of land adjacent to Crescent Lake. The town’s zoning board of adjustment previously had denied the plaintiff’s request for the variance. The town asserts that the trial court relied upon an erroneous legal standard in determining to grant the variance. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

The plaintiff purchased the lot in question in 1968. The parcel has 93 feet of frontage on the lake, a westerly…