Bruni v. Planning Board

This appeal arises out of a Land Court judgment resolving (1) the plaintiffs’ appeal pursuant to G. L. c. 41, § 8IBB, from the denial by the planning board of Ipswich (board) of a definitive plan proposing to subdivide the locus owned by the plaintiffs; and (2) the complaint brought under G. L. c. 240, § 14A, by which the plaintiffs sought to determine the validity of the Ipswich protective zoning bylaw (bylaw) as applied to two lots included within their proposed subdivision (subdivision). The aim of the second action was to obtain a judicial revision of the official zoning map. The matters…