Verizon Wireless v. DOUGLAS CNTY. KS BD. OF COM'RS.

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• holding that a denial is not based on substantial evidence if it “imposes a burden upon [the plaintiff] to prove facts for which there is no requirement under state or local law”
• explaining generalized “not in my backyard” opposition does not constitute substantial evidence
• determinations of technical issues cannot be sustained as based on substantial evidence when they are based on the adjudicators own independent findings and opinions, rather than evidence and testimony in the record
• ‘‘[s]uch generalized ‘not in my backyard’ opposition does not, as a matter of law, constitute substantial evidence on which to deny a proposed wireless telecommunications facility on aes- thetics grounds’’

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