1010 Memorial Drive Tenants Corp. v. Fire Chief

The plaintiff 1010 Memorial Drive Tenants Corporation (the “Cooperative”) commenced these subsequently-consolidated cases seeking declaratory and injunctive relief as well as review of the Automatic Sprinkler Appeals Board’s (the “Sprinkler Board”) decision to deny it a variance of the requirements of G.L.c. 148, §26Al/2 (the “Sprinkler Statute”). This case concerns the applicability of the Sprinkler Statute to the building owned by the Cooperative. The Cooperative has filed a motion for partial summary judgment, seeking declarations (a) that the statute, by exempting only condominiums and…