Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, Lodge No. 65 v. Planning Board

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• holding past alleged violations of open meeting law did not allow court to invalidate subsequent vote taken at public meeting
• distinguishing Pheasant Ridge and holding that, notwithstanding some procedural deficiencies, the finding that the area was blighted was supported by the record
• interpreting similar language of c. 121B, § 2, court stated that statute presents “alternative definitions of a ‘blighted open area,’ ” but “area need satisfy only one of these definitions”
• § 47 \applies only where an urban renewal agency seeks to acquire land before\ approval of urban renewal plan
• no violation of act for town to disclose during purchase negotiations with plaintiffs that it could take plaintiffs’ property by eminent domain and then to do so
• “Promulgated regulations have the force of law, and bind the agency”

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