Aaron Jacob Goldman v. Commonwealth of Virginia

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• a special permit cannot make a structure or use that violates the zoning law legal
• local board was correct in concluding that a 120-foot cellular communications tower did not fall outside of a 35-foot height restriction and within an exception for “chimneys, ventilators, towers, spires or other ornamental features of buildings”
• “A zoning board of appeals is entitled to all rational presumptions in favor of its interpretation of its own bylaw, [provided] there [is] a rational relation between its decision and the purpose of the regulations it is charged with enforcing”

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