Legal Opinion

Shapiro v. City of Cambridge

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided April 6, 1960PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtWhittemore, J.

An amendment to the Cambridge zoning ordinance adopted April 21, 1958, was held valid by the decision of the judge in the Land Court on June 11, 1959, on a petition under G. L. c. 240, § 14A, and c. 185, § 1 (j½) both inserted by St. 1934, c. 263. The petitioners, owners of land on the southerly side of Pemberton Street, which by the amendment, with other adjacent land, was reclassified from an Industry B district, heavy industry, to an Industry A district, light industry, claimed exceptions to the findings and rulings of the decision and to the failure to rule, inter alla, in substance, that…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Simon v. Town of NeedhamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1942
  2. Caires v. Building CommissionerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
  3. Leahy v. Inspector of BuildingsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1941
  4. Town of Marblehead v. RosenthalMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
  5. Lamarre v. Commissioner of Public Works of Fall RiverMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Schertzer v. City of SomervilleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1963
  2. Elmer v. Board of Zoning Adjustment of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1961
  3. Gem Properties, Inc. v. Board of Appeals of MiltonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1960
  4. National Amusements, Inc. v. City of BostonMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1990
  5. Massachusetts Broken Stone Co. v. Town of WestonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1964

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