Amherst Growth Study Committee, Inc. v. Board of Appeals

The defendant’s plea in abatement was properly sustained. The plaintiff, organized after the board’s decision granting the special permit, but before the expiration of the *827twenty-day appeal period set out in G. L. c. 40A, § 21, purports to be the successor to a committee organized to oppose this development. The trial judge found that the plaintiff is not a property owner, and so far as appears from the evidence, the plaintiff itself has no current interests or activities of any kind other than to oppose this development. A statement of corporate purposes cannot by itself create standing.…