Dimitri v. Zoning Bd. of Review of City of Warwick, 679.
| Decision Date | 20 July 1938 |
| Docket Number | No. 679.,679. |
| Citation | 200 A. 963 |
| Parties | DIMITRI v. ZONING BOARD OF REVIEW OF CITY OF WARWICK. |
| Court | Rhode Island Supreme Court |
Proceeding on writ of certiorari by Vincent Dimitri against the Zoning Board of Review of the City of Warwick, to review the record of the Board sustaining the action of the building inspector refusing a permit to erect a dwelling, in which Charlotte H. Rooks intervened.
Petition denied without prejudice to the right of the petitioner to institute proceedings de novo before the Board.
Philip S. Knauer, Philip S. Knauer, Jr., and Knauer & Fowler, all of Providence, for petitioner. Edward L. Godfrey, City Sol., of Providence, for respondents. Flynn & Leighton, of Providence, for intervener, Charlotte H. Rooks. Edwin J. Tetlow and Ralph M. Greenlaw, both of Providence, for adjoining landowners.
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This matter comes before this court on a petition for a writ of certiorari directed to the zoning board of review of the city of Warwick, seeking to bring before us for examination the record of said board in sustaining, after a hearing, the action of the building inspector of said Warwick in refusing to grant to the petitioner a building permit for the erection of a dwelling house, said petitioner having appealed to the zoning board of review from the ruling of said building inspector. On the petition the writ was ordered issued, and the record of the zoning board of review of Warwick in the premises is now before us.
We have examined such record in order to determine whether or not the decision of the board was correct. The record is brief. In our opinion it is incomplete and inadequate, and should be perfected. The petitioner herein is attacking the constitutionality of a portion of the zoning ordinance of the city of Warwick. Before we are required to pass upon such a question we should be satisfied that all facts material to the determination of the issues raised appear upon the record and that the parties are properly before us.
The record in question shows that the petitioner stated to the zoning board of review, but not under oath, that he was the owner of a certain lot on a named plat, by reason of the purchase of said lot under an installment agreement made with the previous owner thereof. Neither the agreement nor the petitioner's deed was presented to the board of review or placed in evidence, although the record indicates that the petitioner stated that he would produce the agreement at a later date. It would...
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