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LEONARD KOPELMAN <br />•DONALD G. PAIGE <br />ELIZABETH A. LANE <br />JOYCE PRANK <br />JOHN W. GIORGIO <br />BARBARA J. SAINT ANDRE <br />JOEL B. BARD <br />EVERETT J. MAROER <br />JOSEPH L. TEHAN. JR. <br />WILLIAM HEWIG III <br />THERESA M. DOWDY <br />PATRICK J. COSTELLO <br />KAREN V. KELLY <br />DEBORAH A. ELIASON <br />JEANNE S. MCKNIGHT <br />JUDITH C. CUTLER <br />ANNE -MARIE N. HYLAND <br />RICHARD BOWEN <br />CHERYL ANN BANKS <br />BRIAN W. RILEY <br />KIMBERLY A. HOLLIDAY <br />MARY L. GIORGIO <br />KATHLEEN E. CONNOLLY <br />MARY JANE EUSTACE <br />Board of Appeals <br />Mashpee Town Hall <br />16 Great Neck Road <br />P.O. Box 1108 <br />Mashpee, MA 02649 <br />KOPELMAN AND PAIGE. P.C. JOSEPH 1. MULLIGAN <br />OF COUNSEL <br />ATTORNEYS AT LAW <br />101 ARCM STREET <br />BOSTON. MASSACHUSETTS 02110.1137 <br />North <br />March 30, 1993 <br />Re: Minutes of January 20 1993 Meeting <br />Dear Members of the Board of Appeals: <br />BOSTON OFFICE <br />16171 931.0007 <br />PAX 16171951-2733 <br />NORTHAMPTON OFFICE <br />mm 3a3 -a632 <br />WORCESTER OFFICE <br />14091 731.0203 <br />At your request, I have reviewed the minutes of the meeting <br />of January 20, 1993 at which we discussed several questions <br />relating to isolated lots, zoning compliance and nonconforming <br />structures, among others. I have only three comments. <br />One is to emphasize -that the isolated lot exemption requires <br />that a lot of at least fifty feet of frontage and five thousand <br />square feet of area also have conformed fully to the zoning by- <br />law in effect at the time the by-law was first amended to make <br />the lot nonconforming. Also, I would emphasize that the five year <br />protection period I noted at page 7 of the Minutes extends only <br />to three such lots. The last comment is to clarify that the case <br />to which I referred at page 6 of the Minutes is the case Sieber <br />v. Zoning Board of Anneals of Wellfleet, 16 Mass. App. Ct. 985 <br />(1983). I have enclosed a copy for your reference as well as a <br />copy of a legal memorandum which I wrote on the subject of <br />isolated lots. Although written in 1985, it is still pertinent <br />and attaches another important case, Adamowicz V. Town of <br />Ipswich, 395 Mass. 757 (1989), which explains in more detail the <br />relevant date for purposes of the isolated lot exemption. <br />EAL/j a <br />Enc. <br />cc: Board of Selectmen <br />Ve // truly your/s� � p <br />Eliza beth A. Lane <br />PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER <br />