notice has been given to the town] the use of the land shown on such plan shall be governed by appbcable provisions of the zoning ordinance or by-law in effect at the time of the submission of such plan while such plan is being processed under the subdivision control law. . . and for a period of three years from the date of [the plan] endorsement . . .” (emphasis added). G. L. c. 40A, § 6, sixth par., as amended through St. 1986, c. 557, § 54. 3 The parties, who agree that the amendment was a dimensional requirement, stipulated that, but for the front-to-back amendment, lots 3 and 4 would have been suitable for residential use and that the board’s application of the amendment rendered the lots unbuildable for that purpose. 4 See Cape Ann Land Dev. Corp. v. Gloucester, 371 Mass. at 24 (<HOLDING>); Perry v. Building Inspector of Nantucket, 4
holding that mailing a copy of a notice of appeal that was filed in the trial court to the city law director does not constitute filing the notice of appeal with the city board of zoning appeals holding that the legislature did not intend the state to be bound by local zoning regulations when constructing a communications tower because the legislature neither named the state nor manifested an intention that it be bound by the provisions of the enabling act which granted zoning authority to the city holding that wrongfully discharged employee is entitled to damages in the amount due during the remainder of the wrongfully terminated contract offset by the amount of income which employee received from other employment during the remainder of the contract period holding that notwithstanding the zoning freeze the city may impose reasonable conditions on the locus enjoying an anr endorsement during the freeze period which do not amount individually or collectively to a practical prohibition of the previously allowed shopping center use holding that the amendment was inapplicable to the plaintiffs land during the freeze period because it effectively rezoned the land to prohibit multifamily housing completely