Soares v. Town of Atkinson

Memorandum Opinion

This appeal is from a decision by the Trial Court {Gray, J.) approving a lengthy report by a Master {R. Peter Shapiro, Esq.) which held that the town of Atkinson’s zoning ordinances were exclusionary, thus violative of the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights. We remand.

*351In 1977, the town of Atkinson, a small, rural community in southern New Hampshire, bordering Lawrence and Haverhill, Massachusetts, began preparing a master plan. The town planning board adopted the final version of the master plan in December, 1980, which included therein a proposed capital improvement plan and…