(Download) "Hawkes v. Town Plan & Zoning Commission" by Supreme Court of Connecticut # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Hawkes v. Town Plan & Zoning Commission
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 06, 1968
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
Description
The defendant Pentad Corporation wants to construct garden-style apartments on a sixty-two-acre tract of unimproved land which it owns on the west side of West Avon Road in Farmington. It petitioned the defendant commission to change the zone of its tract from R.30, a residential zone, to R.A., a restricted apartment zone. The commission, after a public hearing, voted to grant the change of zone. The plaintiffs, who own property in the immediate vicinity of the Pentad property, appealed to the Court of Common Pleas, challenging the action of the commission. The Court of Common Pleas dismissed the plaintiffs' appeal, and the present appeal followed. The plaintiffs claim that the trial court erred in deciding that the action of the commission was not arbitrary, illegal and in abuse of its discretion. More specifically they claim: (1) The change of zone was arbitrary and was not shown to have been justified by any change of conditions since a prior change of the zonal classification of this property. (2) The action of the commission was inconsistent with