Golden v. Board of Selectmen of Falmouth

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that the WPA only establishes minimum standards
• permitting a city to regulate the filling, dredging, and excavating of coastal wetlands notwithstanding a state statute that purported to regulate the same activities
• “local authorities do have final power . . . where they are acting pursuant to an ordinance or by-law which is consistent with the act, but which permissibly imposes ‘more stringent controls’ than the minimum Statewide standards set by the Legislature”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).