Timber Trails Corp. v. Planning & Zoning Commission

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether a planning and zoning commission’s failure to comply with General Statutes (Rev. to 1977) § 8-3 (a), as amended by Public Acts 1977, No. 77-509, § 2,1 which required, inter alia, that a copy of proposed regulations be filed in the town clerk’s office for public inspection prior to the public hearing on the proposed regulations, deprived the commission of its jurisdiction to adopt such proposed regulations, thereby rendering its vote to adopt them void. We answer this question in the affirmative and therefore reverse the judgment of the trial…