Egan v. Planning Board of Stamford

Opinion

WEST, J.

The defendants, the planning board of the city of Stamford and subdivision applicant Michael Innaurato,1 appeal from the judgment of the trial court sustaining the aggrieved plaintiffs’ appeal2 from the *646planning board’s approval of Innaurato’s subdivision application. On appeal, the defendants claim that the trial court improperly substituted its judgment for that of the planning board when the court interpreted (1) a conservation easement to be inconsistent with the zoning requirement that an accessway lot3 provide an “unobstructed legal accessway” to the street and (2) a lot…