Poulos v. Planning Board

The plaintiff owns a parcel of land on Liberty Street, a forty foot wide paved public way, in the town of Braintree. He proposes to divide his property into twelve lots, each of which contains at least fifty feet of frontage on Liberty Street as required by Braintree’s zoning by-law. General Laws c. 41, § 810 (1990 ed.), provides that no one may subdivide land in a town in which the subdivision control law, G. L. c. 41, §§ 81K-81GG (1990 ed.), is in effect, as it is in Braintree, without first submitting a plan of the *360proposed subdivision to the town’s planning board for its approval, and…