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REGIS COLLEGE v. TOWN OF WESTON

SJC-10919.

462 Mass. 280 (2012)

REGIS COLLEGE, v. TOWN OF WESTON & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 22, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catherine J. Savoie for the plaintiff.

George X. Pucci for town of Weston & another.

Lisa C. Goodheart for the interveners.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Donald V. Rider, Jr., City Solicitor, & Christopher J. Petrini, Barbara J. Saint Andre, & Heather W. Kingsbury, for City Solicitors and Town Counsel Association & another.

Robert J. McCarron for Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts.

F. Beirne Lovely, Jr., for Archdiocese of Boston.

Present: IRELAND, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, GANTS, DUFFLY, & LENK, JJ.

LENK, J.

The Dover Amendment, G. L. c. 40A, § 3, second par., exempts from certain local zoning laws land or structures that are to be used by nonprofit educational institutions for "educational purposes." The plaintiff, a private college, brought suit against a town and a local zoning authority (defendants), seeking, among other things, a declaration that its proposed development of residential and educational facilities for older adults known as "Regis East...

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