Titus v. ZONING BD. OF E. PROVIDENCE

This is a petition f.or certiorari to- review and quash the action of the respondent board in granting both an exception and a variance so as to permit the erection of a gasoline service station in a residential A district. In compliance with the writ the board duly certified the pertinent .papers to this court.

It appears therefrom that sometime in January 1964, Patt East, Inc., a Rhode Island corporation, hereinafter referred to as the applicant, purchased a tract of land on the west side of Newport avenue in the city of East Providence. The land consists of three parcels laid out and…