Sciacca v. Caruso

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• holding that zoning board decisions on variance applications must address evidence in the record before the board that either meets or fails to satisfy each of the legal preconditions for granting such relief
• warning that local boards must *Page 12 provide sufficiently detailed records so that courts can undertake appellate review
• clarifying the standard for an applicant to obtain a dimensional variance and establishing that the landowner needs to show only an adverse impact *Page 22 that amounted to more than a mere inconvenience
• board's findings were inadequate where the record \disclosed absolutely no evidence to support the zoning board's decision\
• which clarified the standard for obtaining a dimensional variance and established that a landowner need only to show an adverse impact that amounts to more than a mere inconvenience
• provisions allowing municipalities to grant variances superceded by § 45-24-41

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