Reid v. Acting Commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs

The Park Plaza Urban Renewal Project has reached the stage where the Department of Community Affairs (the department) is required to hold a “public hearing” upon the plan therefor (the plan) pursuant to the sixth paragraph of G. L. c. 121B, § 48, as amended through St. 1971, c. 168. This appeal presents the single question whether the hearing is part of an “adjudicatory proceeding” as defined in G. L. c. 30A, § 1 (1), as amended through St. 1966, c. 497, and subject to the requirements of c. 30A, particularly §§ 10, 11 *137and 12. The case was heard on a stipulation of agreed facts, which the…