Ehrenberg v. City of Concord

The main question in this case is whether the Concord City Council exceeded the scope of its jurisdiction by considering growth-related issues in its decision to deny the plaintiffs’ petition for granting utilities extensions to a planned unit development project that the Concord Planning Board had previously approved.

The plaintiffs proposed to build a planned unit development (PUD) consisting of twenty-six single-family homes and 217 condominium units on Clinton Street in Concord. The Concord Planning Board conditionally approved the project on April 25, 1979. This approval required the…