Legal Opinion
Old Colony Council - Boy Scouts of America v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Plymouth
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided July 12, 1991No. 89-P-1325PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDreben, J.
Old Colony Council - Boy Scouts of America (plaintiff) is a charitable organization which owns and operates a summer camp for Boy Scouts in Plymouth. To become more self-sufficient and lessen its reliance on external funds, it sought to create a new cranberry bog adjacent to an existing nonproductive bog on a portion of its campsite. The cost of constructing the bog would, under the plaintiff’s plan, be paid for by the sale of excavated material to the site con*47tractor, who would construct the bog and would pay the plaintiff in addition approximately $200,000.
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2Cases cited4 opinions
- Lawrence v. Zoning Board of AppealsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1969
- Gulf Oil Corp. v. Board of Appeals of FraminghamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1969
- Subaru of New England v. BD. OF APPEALS, CANTONMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1979
- Town of Harvard v. MaxantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1971
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