Legal Opinion
Trustees of Tufts College v. City of Medford
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 9, 1993PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreaney, J.
This case cpncerns whether dimensional, parking and loading space requirements of the Medford zoning ordinance (ordinance) can be applied to several construction projects planned by Tufts College.1 After a trial on a complaint brought in the Land Court by Tufts under G. L. c. 240, § 14A (1990 ed.), a judge of that court decided that the ordinance requirements could not, for the most part, be validly applied to Tufts’ projects consistent with G. L. c. 40A, § 3, second par., as inserted by St. 1975, c. 808, § 3 (generally referred to as the Dover amendment).2 Medford appealed. The Appeals…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Josephs v. Board of Appeals of BrooklineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1972
- Framingham Clinic, Inc. v. Zoning Board of AppealsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- O'BLENES v. Zoning Board of Appeals of LynnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- Attorney General v. Town of DoverMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1951
- Aronson v. Town of SharonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1964
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Boyajian v. GatzunisCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2000
- Zoning Board of Appeals v. Ardemore Apartments Ltd. PartnershipMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council, Inc. v. Town of FraminghamDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2010
- Martin v. Corporation of the Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2001
- Regis College v. Town of WestonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2012
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