Duplessis v. Cobbossee Development Group

NICHOLS, Justice.

The Plaintiffs, Adelpha Duplessis and other Cobbosseecontee lake front property owners, appeal the judgment of the Superi- or Court affirming the Winthrop Planning Board’s approval of the development applications of the Defendant, Cobbossee Development Group. The Planning Board had ruled that the Development Group’s applications, filed on February 13, 1986, were not governed by a Winthrop ordinance placing a moratorium on development enacted on February 3, 1986, because that ordinance did not become effective until March 5, 1986. Plaintiffs contend that, as a matter of law,…