Prospect Gardens Convalescent Home, Inc. v. City of Norwalk

The plaintiff owns and operates a convalescent home on Prospect Avenne, Norwalk. It operates and leases, as places of residence for a number of its employees, three homes in the immediate vicinity located, respectively, on Finley Street, Fairview Avenue, and Spruce Street. The employees’ duties, for the most part, seem to involve routine maintenance and care of the patients in the main building.

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The three homes are single-family dwellings, all situated in residence zones. The predominant character of the area is one-family residential.

The employees occupying the homes are unrelated to each…