Skelley v. Zoning Board of Review

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

This controversy is before us pursuant to this court’s grant of a common-law writ of certiorari. The petitioners seek review of a Superior Court judgment affirming the denial of their request for a variance by the Zoning Board of Review of the Town of South Kingstown. The variance sought by the petitioners would have enabled them to build a single-family dwelling on a substandard lot.

In October 1980 petitioners purchased the subject property, a 23,925-square-foot parcel of land situated on Border Avenue in the Green Hill section of South Kingstown. The property had…