Framingham Clinic, Inc. v. Zoning Board of Appeals

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• a clinic providing gynecological services, including abortion, held a permitted use in a district permitting both physician's professional offices and private hospitals
• on motion for summary judgment, movants’ credible evidence must be accepted as true when opposing party does not offer counter-affidavits or other evidentiary material contesting the evidence
• “Specific provisions of a zoning enactment are to be read in the context of the law as a whole, giving the language its common and approved meaning . . .”
• in absence of express definition, meaning of word or phrase in zoning enactment should be derived “from sources presumably known to enactors, such as their use in other legal contexts and dictionary definitions”
• medical clinic that fell somewhere between hospitals and professional offices on spectrum of medical uses held to be allowed as of right under zoning provisions which allowed both hospitals and professional offices as of right in the relevant zoning district

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