Cumberland Farms, Inc. v. Planning Board

The judge correctly reversed the action of West Bridgewater’s planning board refusing to endorse the plaintiff’s “perimeter plan” under G. L. c. 41, § 8 IP, as one not requiring approval under the Subdivision Control Law. (The parties refer to the plan as a “perimeter plan”; it does, however, alter boundary lines by consolidating several lots owned by the plaintiff into a single lot.) The plaintiff acknowledges that the plan was submitted to forestall application of a proposed zoning provision prohibiting gasoline service stations in the zoning district by invoking the three-year zoning…