Bruno v. Board of Appeals

For over ten years, the Delphic Trust and its commercial tenants, collectively referred to as Delphic, operated a track maintenance facility without ever having obtained a special permit as required by the zoning by-law. They did so under the apparent authority of an original building permit. This controversy arose when, in September of 1999, the building inspector denied a prospective tenant’s application for a certificate of occupancy because of a failure to comply with the *528special permit requirements of the by-law. Wrentham’s zoning board of appeals (board) upheld the building inspector’s…