Board of Appeals of Hanover v. Housing Appeals Comm.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the zoning power is one of a . . . town’s independent municipal powers included in art. 89, § 6’s broad grant of powers to adopt ordinances or by-laws for the protection of the public health, safety, and general welfare”
• “Building height limitations were also found to have a significant negative impact on low and moderate income housing”
• “The Home Rule Amendment grants cities and towns independent municipal powers which they did not previously inherently possess”
• G. L. c. 40B confers on board power to override local “requirements and regulations,” including town zoning ordinances or bylaws
• reference of approval of drainage and sewage systems to local and State boards of health and possible requirement of disclosure of leasing arrangements incorporated known and sufficiently definite standards
• “any ambiguities which may remain in [the act] can be resolved by administrative regulations promulgated by the Commissioner of Community Affairs”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).