Zoning Board of Appeals v. Ardemore Apartments Ltd. Partnership

Marshall, C J.

We must decide in this case whether the owner of a thirty-six unit apartment building in an area of the town of Wellesley zoned as a single-family district has a continuing obligation to make some of the apartments available at below market rents, where permission to build the complex was secured under the comprehensive permit statute, G. L. c. 40B, §§ 20-23 (Act). The permit was issued in July, 1982, to Cedar Street Associates (owner)4 by the Zoning Board of Appeals of the town of Wellesley (the town and the Zoning Board of Appeals are collectively referred to as Wellesley). A…