Legal Opinion
Forester v. City of Westbrook
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided February 25, 1992PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLLINS, Justice.
Michael Forester appeals from the City of Westbrook’s grant of a zoning variance to a neighboring landowner, Royden Cote. Cote applied to the Westbrook Zoning Board of Appeals for a variance permitting him to build a two-level deck on a two-family home. Forester appealed the Board’s decision to the Superior Court pursuant to Rule 80B. The Superior Court (Cumberland County, Alexander, J.) affirmed. Because Cote failed to satisfy the statutory prerequisites for the grant of a variance, the variance should not have been upheld. Consequently, we vacate the judgment.
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