Reference Library

Decisions

• "Land Use Decisions: Expert Opinions and the Board’s Personal Knowledge", NH Town and City, November/December 2009
• "Board’s Process Important When Renering Adjudicative Decisions", Paul Sanderson, Esq., New Hampshire Town and City, July/August 2005
• Rehearings by the Planning Board - LGC Legal Q & A, September 2006
• 74 COX STREET, LLC & a. v. CITY OF NASHUA & a.
  Argued: June 7, 2007 Opinion Issued: September 21, 2007
  (Land use boards can reconsider their own decisions, failed motion for rehearing [lack of a second] constitutes denial.)
  • summary of the case (Ben Frost Plan-link posting 9/22/07)
  • supplement to the NHMA Law Lecture #3, Fall 2007, "Legal Issues for Land Use Board Members"
• JUDY ATWATER & a. v. TOWN OF PLAINFIELD Argued: January 20, 2010 Opinion Issued: July 20, 2010
  • Appeal Period from Planning Board to ZBA Begins to Run at Conditional Approval (LGC summary)
• JANET AND PETER SAUNDERS v. TOWN OF KINGSTON Argued: January 13, 2010 Opinion Issued: July 23, 2010
  • Appeal Period to ZBA Begins at Conditional Approval; "Law of the Case" (LGC summary)