Legal Opinion
O'KANE v. Board of Appeals of Hingham
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided June 3, 1985PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
The notoriously confused text of G. L. c. 40A, § 15, fifth par., as appearing in St. 1975, c. 808, § 3 (set out in the margin 1 ) presents yet another difficulty, and we seek to find the more satisfactory solution.
On July 6, 1983, the plaintiff Ida C. O’Kane filed her application for a variance in the office of Hingham’s town clerk. The defendant board of appeals conducted a public hearing on the application on August 16, 1983, forty-one days after the application, and on the same day the board voted (orally) to deny it. The written decision of the board, assigning reasons, was filed in the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Cullen v. Building Inspector of North AttleboroughMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1968
- Capone v. Zoning Board of Appeals of FitchburgMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
- Building Inspector of Attleboro v. Attleboro LandfillMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- Casasanta v. Zoning Board of Appeals of MilfordMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Zuckerman v. Zoning Board of Appeals of GreenfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1985
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Willard v. Board of Appeals of OrleansMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1987
- Fitzsimonds v. Board of Appeals of ChathamMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1985
- Burnham v. Town of HadleyMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2003
- Uglietta v. City Clerk of SomervilleMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1992
- Cameron v. Board of Appeals of YarmouthMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1986
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