Nickolas v. City of Marlborough

Salinger, Kenneth W., J.

Plaintiffs, who reside in Marlborough, Massachusetts, challenge plans by the City of Marlborough to construct a senior center inside Ward Park. Plaintiffs claim that the City took the land now known as Ward Park for the sole purpose of using it as a playground, that building a senior center inside the Park would be a change in use from a playground purpose to a new purpose, and that the City cannot convert the Park to such a new use unless it first: (a) receives notice from the Marlborough Parks and Recreation Commission that the land where the senior center will be…