Town of Farmington v. Viacom Broadcasting, Inc.

The defendant appeals from the judgment of the trial court granting the plaintiffs’ application for injunctive relief. The principal issues on appeal are (1) whether the trial court erred in concluding that the plaintiff Farmington planning, zoning and inland wetlands commission (hereinafter commission) had authority to require that the defendant dismantle its “standby” broadcast tower as a condition of granting the defendant’s special exception for the construction of a new, taller broadcast tower, and (2) whether the commission was entitled to injunctive relief absent a showing of…