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McClure Appeals Building Permit for 9 North Road

Attorney Richard McClure filed the appeal Wednesday afternoon.

Local attorney Richard McClure has filed an appeal with the Zoning Board of Appeals this afternoon, asserting the town's building inspector wrongfully issued a building permit to Epsilon Group LLC.

The group plans to build a two-story office building at 9 North Road.

In the appeal, McClure wrote there were improper, invalid, and absent approvals by required boards and improper notice of public hearings by those boards.

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"Furthermore, the site plan approvals exceeded the authority of said boards given their specific knowledge of the preservation restriction ... and therefore any subsequent permits or approvals were whimsical, capricious, arbitrary, unconstitutional and unlawful," McClure wrote.

The appeal comes two days after a public hearing Monday night, held by the Board of Selectmen. During that hearing, the board voted that the plans for the building comply with a 1978 preservation restriction. The restriction states plans for any structure on the site must be barnlike and conform to the historic character of the area. More than 300 residents attended that meeting, which lasted for about three hours.

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