Legal Opinion

Woods v. City of Newton

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided June 8, 1966PublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtWhittemobe, J.

These are appeals by the plaintiffs and the defendants from a declaratory decree of the Superior Court of December 10, 1965. The decree, in paragraphs 1 and 2 respectively, declared the validity of the rezoning by the Newton board of aldermen, on November 4, 1963, of nine and three-quarters acres of land in Norumbega Park (the locus) from Residence C to Business AA, and of the exception granted by the board on November 18,1963, subject to nine conditions, and to site plan approval, to permit the construction of a motel on the locus. The decree also (par. 3) ordered the public building…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Caires v. Building CommissionerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
  2. Woods v. City of NewtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1965
  3. Tambone v. Board of Appeal of StonehamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1965
  4. Wrona v. Board of Appeals of PittsfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1958
  5. Russell v. Zoning Board of Appeals of BrooklineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1965

3Cited by17 opinions

  1. Belfer v. Building Commissioner of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
  2. M. DeMatteo Construction Co. v. Board of AppealsMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1975
  3. Preseault v. WheelSupreme Court of Vermont · 1974
  4. Hunters Brook Realty Corp. v. Zoning Board of AppealsMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1982
  5. 81 Spooner Road LLC v. Town of BrooklineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2008

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