Legal Opinion

Pizzola v. Planning & Zoning Commission

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided August 27, 1974PublishedCited by 68 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtHouse, C. J.

This is an appeal by the defendants from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas which sustained an appeal from a decision of the Plainville planning and zoning commission upon finding that the action of the commission in granting a zone change was improper, illegal and an abuse of the commission’s discretion.

On September 8, 1970, the defendant Willis R. Zenga, trustee, hereafter referred to as Zenga, applied to the Plainville planning and zoning commission for a change in zone from A-20 to garden-apartment for a parcel of land in Plainville. A public hearing was held on October 27, 1970, at…

2Cases cited25 opinions

  1. Hartley v. VitielloSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1931
  2. Parsons v. Board of Zoning AppealsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1953
  3. Coombs v. DarlingSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1933
  4. Parish of St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church v. Zoning Board of AppealsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1967
  5. Wadell v. Board of Zoning AppealsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1949

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3Cited by68 opinions

  1. Huck v. Inland Wetlands & Watercourses Agency of GreenwichSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1987
  2. State v. PeelerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2004
  3. Spero v. Zoning Board of AppealsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1991
  4. Perille v. Raybestos-Manhattan-Europe, Inc.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1985
  5. Connecticut Fund for the Environment, Inc. v. City of StamfordSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1984

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