Amber Preston v. The Zoning Board of Review of the Town of Hopkinton

I concur with the majority’s holding that the finding by the Superior Court justice affirming the fourth condition imposed by the Hopkinton Zoning Board of Review (the zoning board or the board) is erroneous and flies in the face of the fundamental purpose of a zoning board — oversight of “matters relating to the real estate itself then under consideration and with the use to be made thereof, but not with the person who owns or occupies it.” Olevson v. Zoning Board of Review of Narragansett, 71 R.I. 303, 307, 44 A.2d 720, 722 (1945); see also Guiberson v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Providence,…