Haines v. Zoning Board of Appeals

The defendant zoning board of appeals of the town of Oxford appeals from the judgment of the trial court sustaining the plaintiffs’ appeal from the board’s denial of their variance application. On appeal, the defendant argues that the trial court (1) improperly based its decision on the defendant’s prior approval of a separate variance application filed by a different applicant pertaining to another parcel of land on the same road, (2) failed to review the entire record in order to find a basis for the board’s action, (3) ignored the issue of self-inflicted hardship, and (4) improperly placed…