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- Title: Faubel v. Zoning Commission
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 10, 1966
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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The town of Ridgefield is zoned under
            the authority of what is now chapter 124 of the
            General Statutes. Summ v. Zoning Commission,
            150 Conn. 79, 81, 186 A.2d 160. The zoning act provides
            for eight types of residence zones, one type
            each for business and light industry, and includes
            a provision allowing research and development laboratories,
            by special permit, in any part of the
            town. Ridgefield Zoning Regs. 3-13 (1961). On July
            8, 1963, a petition was presented to the defendant
            zoning commission, hereinafter referred to as the
            commission, seeking the creation of a new light
            industrial park zone and a rezoning of the
            petitioners' land from its existing residence
            restrictions to the proposed new zone. The
            petitioners' land was subject to the second
            highest residential restriction permitted among
            the eight different residence zones. 4. Following
            a hearing at which there was extensive opposition,
            the commission, on December 19, 1963, voted to
            amend the zoning regulations to include the
            proposed light industrial park zone and to
            reclassify the petitioners' land to that zone. The
            plaintiffs own land in, adjacent to, or in the
            immediate vicinity of the rezoned area. They
            appealed to the Court of Common Pleas on the
            ground that the commission had, in nine
            particulars, acted illegally, arbitrarily, and in
            abuse of its discretion. The court sustained the
            appeal, and from that decision the commission has
            taken this appeal. Error is assigned in the
            conclusions of the court that before the property
            could be rezoned there must be proof either
            of a mistake in the original zoning or that [154 Conn. 204] 
            the character of the neighborhood had changed to
            such an extent that a reclassification of the
            property ought to be made, that the record before
            the commission did not support the commission's
            conclusion that the change was in the public
            interest, and that the change adopted did not
            contain sufficient standards to meet the requirements
            of the statutes, and in that the court substituted
            its own judgment for that of the zoning authority.