Legal Opinion
Tsagronis v. Board of Appeals of Wareham
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided July 24, 1992No. 90-P-821, 90-P-822 & 91-P-760PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKass, J.
When laid out in 1971 as part of a proposed subdivision, lot 40 (the “locus”) conformed to the dimensional requirements of the zoning by-law of Wareham. Nine days after the preliminary plan for the proposed subdivision (it disclosed seven lots on a point projecting into Buzzards Bay) was filed with the Wareham planning board, the inhabitants of the town, on June 21, 1971, adopted an amendment to their zoning by-law requiring larger area and more frontage for residential lots in the zoning district (Residence C-3) in which the peninsula was classified. Each of the seven lots was conveyed to…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Circle Lounge & Grille, Inc. v. Board of AppealMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
- Pendergast v. Board of AppealsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1954
- Josephs v. Board of Appeals of BrooklineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1972
- Adamowicz v. Town of IpswichMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1985
- Warren v. Zoning Board of Appeals of AmherstMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Standerwick v. Zoning Board of AppealsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2006
- Tardanico v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co.Massachusetts Appeals Court · 1996
- Tsagronis v. Board of Appeals of WarehamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
- Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers of New York, Inc. v. Board of AppealMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2009
- Marhefka v. Zoning Board of Appeals of SuttonMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2011
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