Northeastern Corp. v. Zoning Board of Review of New Shoreham

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

We have issued our common-law writ of certiorari to review a Superior Court justice’s affirmance of the New Shoreham Zoning Board’s rejection of the petitioner’s efforts to build a number of boatel units 1 in that municipality. New Shoreham, which is also known as Block Island, is located in the Atlantic Ocean and situated some ten miles south of the Rhode Island mainland. 2 Hereafter we shall refer to the petitioner as Northeastern and to the zoning board of review as the board.

The record indicates that in August 1982 Northeastern acquired a parcel of island real…