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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-8

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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-8
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Connecticut (state)
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Wide discretion in board. 1 CS 89. Compared with number 305 of special acts of 1931. 10 CS 194. Superior Court has jurisdiction to hear appeals from board. 11 CS 489. Mode of service on board discussed; notice to chairman sufficient compliance; time for appeal excludes day of act. 17 CS 116. Officer of corporation which would be affected by variance is not “person aggrieved”. 15 CS 362. Building inspector is. 19 CS 349. Resident landowner of town not living in borough is “aggrieved person” in action by borough zoning board. Id., 446. In an appeal from granting of variance for sale of liquor, a “person aggrieved” held to include any landowner, resident or taxpayer of municipality affected. 21 CS 102. History discussed; where, due to mechanical failure of the recording machine no transcript is available, court may not remand case for rehearing, but it may permit introduction of additional evidence to determine what considerations were presumptively in minds of board members. 23 CS 6; judgment reversed, see 150 C. 411. Cited. 25 CS 276. This section and Secs. 8-3 and 8-9 are not so linked that the date of publication of notice must be considered as the date the decision was rendered. 26 CS 88. Part owner of property is not precluded, merely because her co-owners have not joined with her, from showing that she, as an aggrieved person, has the right to appeal to the court. Id., 170. Circumstances under which board's decisions should be overruled discussed. Id., 256. Equitable relief outside the framework of appeal procedure set up by statute might be granted in the presence of allegations of fraudulent connivance or collusion on the part of local zoning board of appeals; plaintiffs have been granted equitable relief when the zoning authority lacked the jurisdiction to take