Zuckerman v. Town of Hadley

This case involves a landowner’s challenge to the statutory and constitutional validity of a town zoning bylaw of unlimited duration that regulates the number of building permits *512issued annually for the construction of single family homes. It requires us to confront more broadly the issues of duration and purpose left open in Sturges v. Chilmark, 380 Mass. 246 (1980), in which we held that a “municipality may impose reasonable time limitations on development, at least where those restrictions are temporary and adopted to provide controlled development while the municipality engages in…