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SULLIVAN v. TOWN OF SALEM

No. 994, Docket 85-9072.

805 F.2d 81 (1986)

Joseph T. SULLIVAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TOWN OF SALEM, Salem Board of Selectmen, Salem Planning & Zoning Commission, Linda Phillips, David Bingham, Robert Parker, Frank K. Cunningham, Hilmar B. Ahnert, Paul W. Woronik, Gary Komosky, Jennifer Scace, Helen Dutcher, Edward J. Swider, Jr., Angus L. McDonald & Associates, Inc., Angus L. McDonald, Gary P. Sharpe, Hugh C. Teel, John Bodman, Michael Urbanik, and Stanley Wilson, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 10, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Clendenen, Jr., New Haven, Conn. (David M. Lesser, Robert F. Carter, Clendenen & Lesser, of counsel) for plaintiff-appellant.

Anthony M. Fitzgerald, Waterbury, Conn. (Carmody & Torrance, of counsel), for defendants-appellees Town of Salem and Salem Board of Selectmen.

Thomas P. Burne, Farmington, Conn., for defendant-appellee Salem Planning and Zoning Comn.

H. Bissel Carey, III, Hartford, Conn. (Robinson & Cole, of counsel), for defendant-appellee Phillips.

John W. Butts, Colchester, Conn., for defendants-appellees Bingham, Dutcher, Teel, Bodman, Urbanik, & Wilson.

Karen Jansen Casey, Hartford, Conn., for defendants-appellees Angus L. McDonald & Associates, Inc., Angus L. McDonald, & Gary P. Sharpe.

Before KEARSE, PRATT, and ALTIMARI, Circuit Judges.

GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:

We are mindful that federal courts should not become zoning boards of appeal to review nonconstitutional land use determinations by the circuit's many local legislative and administrative agencies. Federal judges lack the knowledge of and sensitivity to local conditions necessary to a proper balancing of the complex factors that enter into local zoning decisions. Even were we blessed with the requisite knowledge and sensitivity, due...

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