Copley v. Board of Appeals

These are appeals by the board of appeals (board) from final decrees of the trial judge in the Superior Court which annulled the board’s decision denying a special permit to erect apartment houses, and ordered the board to issue the special permit and approve the site plan. The decrees must be reversed. Although the judge found that the increase in traffic would be “minimal,” and that the traffic problem is “no more than can be expected in a community of the size of the town of Canton under normal conditions,” the evidence indicated that there was a basis for concern as to traffic congestion…