Legal Opinion
Putnam v. Town of Hampden
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided July 11, 1985PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NICHOLS, Justice.
The Plaintiff, Eugene Putnam, appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court (Penobscot County) where, in bifurcated proceedings, a decision of the Hampden Zoning Board of Appeals denying the Plaintiffs application for a permit to pasture animals had been upheld in a M.R. Civ.P. 80B proceeding, and the Plaintiffs constitutional challenge to the applicable subsection of the Hampden zoning ordinance had been rejected. We deny the appeal.
The Plaintiff lives in Hampden in what is designated as a Residential A District under that town’s zoning ordinance. The ordinance provides that…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Penobscot Area Housing Development Corp. v. City of BrewerSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1981
- Singal v. City of BangorSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1982
- Barnard v. Zoning Bd. of App. of Town of YarmouthSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1974
- LaPointe v. City of SacoSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1980
- Warren v. Municipal Officers of the Town of GorhamSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1981
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3Cited by7 opinions
- George D. Ballard, Builder, Inc. v. City of WestbrookSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1985
- Baker v. Town of WoolwichSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1987
- Ray v. Town of CamdenSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1987
- Roberts v. Town of PhippsburgSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1994
- Laverty v. Town of BrunswickSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1991
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