Emerson College v. City of Boston

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• ‘local regulations are presumed valid unless a sharp conflict exists between the local and the State regulation”
• silence by the Legislature is not sufficient evidence to indicate an intent to repeal
• Boston Zoning Code and Enabling Act, St. 1956, c. 665, not impliedly repealed by St. 1975, c. 808, codified at G. L. c. 40A, where both had coexisted without problems since 1976, and where zoning in Boston not intended to be governed by c. 40A
• Boston Zoning Code, St. 1956, c. 665, was not impliedly repealed by St. 1975, c. 808, codified at G. L. c. 40A, where both had coexisted without problems since 1976, and where zoning in Boston not intended to be governed by c. 40A

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