Town of Randolph v. Estate of White

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• involving the decision of the zoning administrator made without the benefit of a hearing or any other adversarial proceeding
• to meet due process requirements, notice of violation must inform the landowner how to contest the decision
• “To meet due process requirements, the notice of a zoning violation must inform the defendant how to contest the decision.”
• “The right to be heard is worth little unless one is informed that the matter is pending and can choose ‘whether to appear or default, acquiesce or contest.’”
• To satisfy due process requirements, Town’s notice of a zoning violation must include “(1) the factual basis for the deprivation, (2) the action to be taken against them, and (3) the procedures available to challenge the action.”
• town’s notice of zoning violation violated due process clause by failing to inform owner of his statutory right to contest administrator’s decision by filing notice with secretary of board of adjustment within 15 days

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).