Legal Opinion
Collura v. Town of Arlington
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 3, 1975PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtReardon, J.
This bill for declaratory relief brings to us questions concerning the validity and effect of a purported amendment to the zoning by-law of the town of Arlington which imposed a two-year moratorium on the construction of apartment buildings in certain areas of the town. The plaintiff is a landowner in Arlington who, in November, 1972, applied to the town’s building inspector for a permit to construct a forty-unit, six-story apartment building on his realty. Under the zoning provisions then in effect, construction of such a building in the district in which the realty was located was…
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