Johnson v. Board of Appeals

Owners of houses in a residential A zone in Wareham seek (G. L. c. 40A, § 21) to overturn a variance given -to Daniel C. Nyman and the People’s Church of the Nazarene (which had merged with another congregation) to convert its forty-year old solid frame church (locus) on Route 6, in the same residential zone, into office suites. One reason for abandoning *873the church was the heavy traffic on Route 6, where a church member’s child had been killed recently. The land on the opposite side of Route 6 is zoned commercial D for about 1,500 feet, and contains a warehouse and a business enterprise.…