Rudders v. Building Commissioner of Barnstable

Omitting various details, the case stands thus. Richard Rudders and Joan Rudders, his wife (plaintiffs), own *109property at 36 Sunset Lane, Barnstable. Under the Old King’s Highway Regional Historic District Act, St. 1973, c. 470, as amended (Historic Act), covering Barnstable and other areas, the plaintiffs on September 17, 1997, applied to the local Barn-stable Old King’s Highway Committee (Barnstable committee) for a “certificate of appropriateness” on the basis of a plot plan. A certificate issued on October 8, 1997, authorizing the demolition of the single-family house on Sunset Lane, and…