Wilson v. Town of Sherborn

The petitioner, the owner of about eighty acres of land in Sherborn, brought this petition in the Land Court pursuant to G. L. c. 240, § 14A, and c. 185, § 1 (j Yz), to determine the validity of the provisions of Sherborn’s zoning by-law requiring, for the residential district including the petitioner’s land, a minimum area of two acres and a frontage of two hundred feet. The judge, after hearing the evidence and taking two views, held the by-law valid* 2 ; the petitioner appeals from the decision. G. L. c. 185, § 15. The case is here on the decision, which contains findings of fact, and on…