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GUMLEY v. BOARD OF SELECTMEN OF NANTUCKET

371 Mass. 718 (1977)

358 N.E.2d 1011

THEODORE GUMLEY & others vs. BOARD OF SELECTMEN OF NANTUCKET & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Nantucket.

January 13, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Goglia, Jr., Town Counsel, for the Board of Selectmen of Nantucket & another.

Leonard E. Perry for the plaintiffs.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, & WILKINS, JJ.

BRAUCHER, J.

Questions are presented under the statute establishing a Historic Nantucket District. St. 1970, c. 395, as amended by St. 1972, c. 708 (the statute). We read the statute in the light of the more general statutes providing for zoning, G.L.c. 40A, and for historic districts, G.L.c. 40C, and apply a standard of review analogous to that governing exercise of the power to grant or deny special permits. See MacGibbon v. Board of Appeals of Duxbury...

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