Lapidus v. Board of Appeal

Some twenty-three years after the city of Boston issued a permit for the use of certain premises as a restaurant with entertainment, the plaintiff3 requested that the *724commissioner of the inspectional services department (commissioner) investigate the use and revoke the permit if the premises were not properly zoned for such use. Given “the Legislature’s desire for finality [in the appeals process],” Chiuccariello v. Building Commr. of Boston, 29 Mass. App. Ct. 482, 489 (1990), we conclude, in the facts and circumstances of this case, that the passage of twenty-three years precludes an appeal…