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VAN RENSELAAR v. CITY OF SPRINGFIELD

No. 01-P-982.

58 Mass. App. Ct. 104 (2003)

CYNTHIA VAN RENSELAAR & others v. CITY OF SPRINGFIELD & others.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Hampden.

May 14, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark E. Draper for the plaintiffs.

Kathleen T. Breck, Associate City Solicitor, for city of Springfield & others.

Edward J. Partyka for Belmont Laundry, Inc.

Present: GELINAS, MASON, & MILLS, JJ.

MILLS, J.

The plaintiffs challenge an amendment to the Springfield zoning ordinance, rezoning a parcel of land (the locus) from residential to business use. The plaintiffs claim that the amendment constitutes "spot zoning," i.e., an unlawful singling out of land in a zoning district without relation to the furtherance of general objectives of zoning. Shapiro v. Cambridge, 340 Mass. 652, 659 (1960); National Amusements...

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