Belfer v. Building Commissioner of Boston

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• appeal from variance creates real practical impediments to use of benefit and unless appeal tolls time period variance remains effective, many variances would be meaningless
• period during which variance must be exercised tolled during appeal from decision of board granting the variance
• period during which variance must be exercised tolled during appeal from decision of board granting the variance
• even where permit not formally denied, actual controversy exists “as long as the permit granting authority had unequivocally stated” its intention to deny
• two-year period in which variance had to be used under zoning code tolled where appeal from granting of variance created “real practical impediments to use of a [variance]”
• failure to give relief from the time limitations for construction imposed by the terms of the variance could result in frustration of a lawfully awarded variance by the delay inherent in an appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).