Town of Durham v. Cutter

This case involves a protracted dispute between the parties over the defendant Ernest Cutter’s construction of a commercial parking lot on an undeveloped piece of land in a rural zone in Durham. In July of 1976, Cutter filled and leveled an area on his property large enough to park ten or more vehicles and began using it as a storage and parking area for commercial trucks and trailers and farm vehicles. In November, the board of selectmen informed Cutter that he was in violation of several articles of the zoning ordinance for failing to obtain site review approval from the planning board…