George Brackett v. Town of Rangeley

[¶ 1] George and Roselyn Brackett (the Bracketts) are, as we say in Maine, “from away.” When, on the Fourth of July weekend in 1999, they returned to their summer camp on Rangeley Lake for the first time that year, they discovered that *424their next-door neighbor, William Sears, had, in multiple violation of the Town’s Zoning Ordinance and without the required hearing with notice to his neighbors but with the blessing of the Town’s Code Enforcement Officer, replaced his non-conforming cottage with a substantially larger but even more non-conforming dwelling. Although the Bracketts filed an…