May-Day Realty Corp. v. Zoning Board of Review

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari to review the action of the zoning board of review, of the city of Pawtucket, hereinafter referred to as the board, in refusing to grant the petitioner an exception or a variance from certain requirements of the zoning ordinance of that city.

It appears from the evidence that the petitioner is the owner of a long and rather narrow tract of land located between two highways in that city and zoned in the ordinance as a residence “A” district. On this land the petitioner desires to erect two one-story apartment houses containing in all twenty-eight…