Coderre v. Zoning Bd. of Pawtucket

This is a petition for certiorari to review the decision of the zoning board of review of the city of Pawtucket granting an application for a variance and thereby permitting the construction of an ice cream manufacturing plant on an approximately 4,000-square-foot tract of unoccupied, filled land located in a residential two-family district. The board complied with the mandate of the writ and has certified the pertinent records to this court.

An extensive review of the record is unnecessary. Decisive in this case is the failure of the decision to set forth in some reasonable manner the…