Sinelli v. Birmingham Board of Zoning Appeals

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• noting that town had demonstrated consistent interpretation of its ordinance through affidavit of building official \listing several specific instances\ in which town had taken similar actions
• noting that town had demonstrated consistent interpretation of its ordinance through affidavit of building official “listing several specific instances” in which town had taken similar actions
• “This Court will not sit in judgment on matters wholly within the reasonable discretion of local zoning boards whose decisions are regarded as final and binding unless caprice, abuse of discretion, or arbitrary action is provable.”
• “A zoning board of appeals has the power to interpret the zoning ordinance which it must administer. . . . [C]ourts will consider and give weight to the construction of the ordinance by those administering the ordinance.”

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