Legal Opinion
Wright v. Board of Appeals of Falmouth
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided June 30, 1987PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCutter, J.
In 1973 Robert Wright and Edward Jacoubs (W & J) owned about forty acres of land (the locus) in Falmouth (the town). The facts stated below are based on “stipulated facts” in the record appendix.
A. Stipulated Facts
In Janaury, 1973, W & J submitted to the town planning board and to the town clerk a preliminary plan for the subdivision of the locus, which lay in an Agricultural C (AGC) zone. At that time, the Falmouth zoning by-law required for the locus a minimum lot size of 15,000 square feet. On March 5, 1973, W & J submitted a revised preliminary plan reducing the number of lots.
On March 5,…
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- Casasanta v. Zoning Board of Appeals of MilfordMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Lee v. Board of Appeals of HarwichMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1981
- Shalbey v. Board of Appeal of NorwoodMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1978
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