Health Havens, Inc. v. Zoning Board of Review

This petition for certiorari was brought to review the respondent board’s decision denying the petitioner’s application for an exception or a variance to permit it to erect an addition to its nursing home on a parcel of land located in a residence A district. Pursuant to the writ the pertinent- records have been certified to this court.

It appears from the record that petitioner’s land is located on Wampanoag Trail; that in 1959 its predecessor in title was granted an exception pursuant to what is now the Revised Ordinances of 1963, sec. 32-20(8), authorizing the erection of a nursing home…