Reagan v. Planning Board

The defendant Braintree Property Associates (hereafter “shopping center” or “center”) submitted to the planning board, for an “approval-not-required” (ANR) endorsement, a perimeter plan for a proposed single 106-acre lot comprised of the eighty-five acre parcel on which South Shore Plaza, a major shopping center, is situated, and a nonadjacent twenty-one acre parcel to which the center is connected by a subdivision roadway. An effect, the developers of the shopping center apparently hope, will be to convert the center’s zoning status from nonconforming to conforming, thus enabling a planned…