Lawrence v. Board of Appeals of Lynn

This is the plaintiffs’ appeal from a decree of the Superior Court which sustained the decision of the defendant board of appeals of Lynn in granting to the defendants Waiter F. and Catherine A. Ahem a permit to use an existing one family dwelling at 444 Broadway, at Virginia Terrace, in a single residence district under the local zone ordinance, as a funeral home and for the services incident thereto. The plaintiffs are residents and landowners in the neighborhood, particularly on Virginia Terrace, a narrow, dead end street. The evidence is reported.

Section 4 of the zone ordinance provides…