Preston v. Board of Appeals

The plaintiff owns two vacant contiguous lots in Hull, neither of which complies with the current zoning by-law. She appeals from a Superior Court judgment affirming the denial of her application for a building permit for one of the lots. The building commissioner, upheld by a decision of the board of appeals of Hull, denied the plaintiff’s application on the ground that under a long-standing zoning principle, the two noncom*237plying lots had merged into a single conforming lot. See Planning Bd. of Norwell v. Serena, 27 Mass. App. Ct. 689, 690 (1989), S.C., 406 Mass. 1008 (1990); Asack v. Board…