Appeal of Lloyd W. & Elizabeth W. Weeks

Summary

The court affirmed the Environmental Court's decision allowing two adjoining undersized lots to be developed and sold separately. It held that the applicable zoning ordinance did not require substandard lots to remain in separate ownership after the ordinance's effective date, so later common ownership did not automatically trigger merger. The court therefore affirmed on statutory and ordinance-language grounds without deciding whether the ravine physically prevented functional merger.