Smith v. Pan American Surety Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a proposed methadone clinic qualified as a use of property for treatment of patients and as a medical office
• noting recovering addicts must be treated as persons with a disability under the ADA
• rejecting neighbors’ claim that proposed methadone clinic failed to qualify as permitted “medical office” use based on trial court finding that clinic provides “treatment of patients” by staff of doctors, nurses, and counselors within meaning of zoning ordinance
• “[W]here a court needs to define an undefined term, it may consult dictionary definitions for guidance.”
• objectors waived argument that applicant lacked standing to obtain requested use permit on the ground that applicant did not have an ownership interest in property when it filed the application where objectors did not raise standing issue before ZBA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).