Castellon v. Board of Zoning Appeals

The dispositive issue of this appeal concerns the scope of our decision in Conto v. Zoning Commission, 186 Conn. 106, 439 A.2d 441 (1982). In Conto, we held that an aggrieved property owner in the town of Washington could not appeal a zoning commission’s administrative decision directly to the Superior Court, but was required instead to exhaust the applicable administrative remedies by appealing first to the Washington zoning board of appeals. Id., 114. This appeal raises the question of whether, on the one hand, that decision turned on the particular regulations of the town of Washington or,…