Aurora v. Zoning Board of Appeals

The plaintiffs appealed to the Court of Common Pleas from the action of the defendant board in granting an application of the defendant Stop and Shop, Inc., of Connecticut for a variance of the East Haven zoning ordinance regulating the distance between retail outlets selling alcoholic beverages. In Aurora v. Zoning Board of Appeals, 151 Conn. 378, 198 A.2d 60, we found error in a judgment which sustained a plea in abatement to the appeal. The case was remanded for further proceedings.

In those further proceedings the plaintiffs pleaded that the defendant zoning board had no jurisdiction to…