Zoning Board Upset Over Multiuse Decision

Zoning Board Upset Over Multiuse Decision

The Marion Planning Board on Monday met briefly and expressed concern about the Zoning Board of Appeals’ (ZBA) split decision to allow an industrial building to turn into housing – Sippican Holdings LLC at 14 Barnabas Road.             Board members at the Police Station meeting room acknowledged that the ZBA can issue a variance if the developer shows evidence of hardship.             For that project, it received a variance that would allow fo…

Zoning – Solar energy

Where the Petersham zoning board denied an application for a special permit to build and operate a solar energy system, a judgment in the board’s favor should be vacated because the denial of the application was contrary to the legislative goal of promoting solar energy and rested primarily on the subjective beliefs of one board member.