Harlow v. Planning & Zoning Commission

This administrative appeal, like the appeal in Arnold Bernhard & Co. v. Planning & Zoning Commission, 194 Conn. 152, 479 A.2d 801 (1984), decided today, arises out of the enactment of a municipal zoning moratorium. This case turns, however, on two issues not presented in the Bernhard case, the applicability of the moratorium to a site plan application filed *189before the effective date of the moratorium, and the propriety of an order of mandamus to compel zoning commission action on a site plan application.

The plaintiffs, Albert L. Harlow, W. Bradley Morehouse and Walter M. Andrew, Jr., d/b/a…