Rt Automotive v. Westlake

How courts have described this case

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• affirming Land Court judgment granting special permit where interests of justice and equity militated against second remand to recalcitrant local board, which had ignored judge’s suggestions in previous remand
• construction of shopping center was a permitted use by statute, but nonetheless required a special permit
• “principles of exhaustion require that a person aggrieved by the action of a local zoning administrator . . . must first attempt to redress the grievance through the local board of appeals before seeking judicial review”
• \The statutorily required submission of zoning disputes to local authority is so central to the architecture of G. L. c. 40A that we have required the exhaustion of administrative remedies as a prerequisite to judicial review\
• “judge correctly ruled that, in denying the application [for a special permit for a permitted use of the land] without reasons, the board had made no effort to impose reasonable and appropriate conditions on the permitted use”

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