Inspector of Bldg., Salem v. Salem St. College

In County Commissioners of Bristol v. Conservation Commn. of Dartmouth, 380 Mass. 706, 713 (1980), the court, examining G. L. c. 40A, § 3, decided that municipal zoning regulations did not extend to land or structures on “land . . . owned or leased by the Commonwealth or by its bodies politic and devoted to an essential governmental function.” The question now presented is whether there is latent in § 3 a power of cities and towns to regulate the dimensional and parking criteria for buildings constructed by the Massachusetts State College Building Authority (the “Au*93thority”). We conclude that…