Mahoney v. City of Chelsea

This is the city’s appeal from a judgment of the Land Court3 which determined that the proposed salt importing operations of Eastern Minerals, Inc. (Eastern), on land leased from S.M.P. Trust (S.M.P.) on the waterfront in Chelsea, will constitute a commercial dock, a permitted use under the Chelsea zoning ordinance. The city argues that the Land Court judge erred by not concluding that Eastern’s proposed *92operations would constitute a wholesale storage and distribution business rather than a commercial dock. We affirm the judgment.

We summarize the facts found by the Land Court judge with some…