Reconstruction of dimensionally conforming structure devoted to nonconforming use permitted without special permit where use does not substantially change.
Environmental Facilities Siting Board approval of natural gas power plant affirmed where board properly applied environmental justice policy, air quality standards, meteorological data, water supply analysis, and traffic route designations.
Energy Facilities Siting Board properly denied a power plant's request to use municipal drinking water for cooling when environmental impacts to the Silver Lake water system could not be minimized as required by statute.
Board reasonably interpreted regulation defining entrance as access point, considering use pattern and functionality of separate doorways providing different customer experience.
Sex offender mandamus petition compelling the Registry Board to provide hearing transcript where successor examiner was appointed after evidence closed.
Conditions imposed in 1975 subdivision approval requiring road and water improvements remain enforceable thirty years later and were not properly waived when board approved further subdivision.
When reconstruction of a pre-existing nonconforming residential structure would create new dimensional violations, a variance is required, not just a special permit with a no-substantial-detriment finding.
Federal kidnapping conviction does not constitute a registrable "like violation" under Massachusetts sex offender statute where the two crimes lack similar statutory elements.
CPSL sentence held unconstitutional; parolee not a "prisoner" for sexually dangerous person statute purposes; petition filed during unlawful sentence invalid.
Nonprofit conservation organization qualifies for charitable property tax exemption on forest land where it actively conducts sustainable forestry and environmental protection, though public access not required.
