Case ID: conn-supp_4/html/0027-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ELLS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JOSEPH B. RICE vs. THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS FOR THE TOWN OF MILFORD
    Superior Court New Haven County
    File #49534
    Present: Hon. ARTHUR F. ELLS, Judge.
    Alexander Winnick, Attorney for the Plaintiff.
    Omar W. Platt, Attorney for the Defendant.
    MEMORANDUM FILED MAY 16, 1936.
    122 Conn. 435
   ELLS, J.

The issue here considered is whether a building containing many single rooms and used as a dormitory for the Roseblum School at Milford at the time zoning regulations were adopted can now be altered and made into a six-family house.

The regulations provide “no non-conforming use shall be extended so as to diminish the extent of a conforming use”. The construction and use of a six-family house would, in my opinion, materially extend the non-conforming and diminish the extent of a conforming use.

The regulations provide “the cost of structural alterations made in such building shall in no case exceed fifty per cent of its assessed value”. Although the owner testified his plans and specifications could be carried out within that limit, I find the fact to be quite to the contrary.

There is no indication that the Board of Zoning Appeals acted arbitrarily, illegally or unreasonably.

The appeal is dismissed.