Taft v. Zoning Board of Review

This is a petition for certiorari to review and quash the respondent board’s decision granting an application for a variance under the zoning ordinance of the city of Warwick to permit substantial alterations of a nonconforming use in a residential district into a dwelling. Pursuant to the writ the board has made a return of its records including a general summary of the evidence upon which it based its decision.

The case was previously before this court, Taft v. Zoning Board of Review, 75 R. I. 117. At that time the owner of the lot here involved had received a permit from the building…