Robert Mayer v. Historic District Commission of the Town of Groton

Summary

The court affirmed dismissal of the plaintiffs' appeals from two historic district commission decisions concerning alterations to an abutting property owner's barn. It held that the statutory aggrievement provision for certain land-use agencies does not extend to historic district commission appeals, and that the plaintiffs neither proved classical aggrievement in the first appeal nor adequately pleaded it in the second. The court also held that speculative effects on property value, procedural irregularities, and proximity alone do not establish standing.