Legal Opinion
Farley v. Town of Lyman
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided April 3, 1989PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKUSICK, Chief Justice.
Plaintiff Jeanne Farley was denied a permit to build a house on a 3.7-acre lot in Lyman that her parents gave her shortly before the Town raised the applicable minimum lot size to 5 acres. The Lyman Zoning Board of Appeals denied her appeal on the ground that her lot lost its status as a nonconforming lot of record when she conveyed the land to her sister, the owner of an abutting lot; the Board reasoned that upon coming into single ownership the two undersized lots merged under the Lyman zoning ordinance and ceased to be separately buildable. Plaintiff sought judicial…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- LaPointe v. City of SacoSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1980
- Inhabitants of Town of Windham v. SpragueSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1966
- Keating v. Zoning Board of Appeals of City of SacoSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1974
- Your Home, Inc. v. Town of WindhamSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1987
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