DeMaria v. Enfield Planning & Zoning Commission

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• holding that vague and undefined considerations alone were insufficient to support zoning authority’s denial of construction permit
• sustaining appeal of commission decision because reason that “the commission gave . . . [was] the [a] esthetic effect of the [apartment] complex in relation to the existing neighborhood and the town in general” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• where zoning agency has “formally stated” the reasons for its decisions, court should not go behind such official collective statement to search record for other reasons supporting the decision
• when zoning agency has ‘‘for- mally stated’’ reason for its decision, court should not go behind that official, collective statement to search record for other reasons supporting decision

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