CAMBODIAN BUDDHIST v. PLANNING AND ZONING

No. 17690.

941 A.2d 868 (2008)

285 Conn. 381

CAMBODIAN BUDDHIST SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT, INC., et al. v. PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION OF the TOWN OF NEWTOWN.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided February 12, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Zizka, with whom was Aimee L. Hoben, Hartford, for the appellant (plaintiffs).

Robert A. Fuller, with whom, on the brief, was Karen A. Stansbury, for the appellee (defendant planning and zoning commission of the town of Newtown).

Thomas W. Beecher, Danbury, for the appellees (intervening defendant Richard T. Coburn et al.).

Charles D. Ray, Anthony R. Picarello, Jr., Derek L. Gaubatz and Lori E. Halstead filed a brief for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty as amicus curiae.

NORCOTT, KATZ, PALMER, VERTEFEUILLE and ZARELLA, Js.


PALMER, J.

This appeal by the named plaintiff, Cambodian Buddhist Society of Connecticut, Inc. (society), and the plaintiff Pong Me, the society's president, arises from the decision of the defendant planning and zoning commission of the town of Newtown (commission) denying the society's application for a special exception to build a Buddhist temple on its property located in the town of Newtown (town). The plaintiffs appealed from the commission's decision to the...

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