Cole v. Zoning Board of Review

These are two petitions for certiorari brought to review a decision of the respondent board granting an application for a variance to permit the use of a tract of land zoned residence A as an off-street parking lot to service the needs of an existing adjoining shopping center and authorizing the construction of access roads over the subject property. The writs issued and in compliance therewith the pertinent records and papers were certified to this court for our examination.

It appears therefrom that in 1953 one Fred Podren, hereinafter called applicant, being the owner of two large tracts of…