Strand/BRC Group, LLC v. Board of Representatives

Summary

The court affirmed the judgment sustaining the plaintiffs' appeal from the Board of Representatives' rejection of the Planning Board's master plan amendment. It held that the Board of Representatives had no authority to determine the validity of a protest petition after the Planning Board referred it, and that a valid petition was a mandatory condition precedent to the Board's authority to decide the amendment's merits. Because the petition lacked the required signatures as to the plaintiffs' amendment and signatures from separate amendments could not be aggregated, the Board's merits vote was void.