Young v. Planning Board

We are concerned here principally with whether a planning board properly may rescind its approval of a definitive subdivision plan because the developers failed to make a gift for the benefit of the town that the developers had said they would make voluntarily but which they and the planning board fully understood was not to be a condition of planning board approval. We conclude that the developers’ failure to make such a gift, which'the planning board could not lawfully have required on its own as a condition of its approval of the subdivision plan, was not a proper basis for rescission of…