Harris v. Old King's Highway Regional Historic District Commission

This case is here on further appellate review and requires us to decide whether a District Court judge, who reviewed a decision of the Old King’s Highway Regional Historic District Commission (regional commission), properly concluded that the Barnstable historic district committee (local committee) had no rational basis for denying the plaintiff, John H. Harris, a certificate of appropriateness to *613convert a garage on his property into a shed or studio. The judge reported his decision to the Appellate Division of the District Courts which discharged the report. The regional commission…