Zoning – Declaratory Relief – Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly

Zoning – Declaratory relief – Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly

Where a plaintiff corporation requested declaratory relief concerning a zoning ordinance that it claimed had not been validly amended, a Superior Court judge’s decision to dismiss that count without prejudice should be vacated and a remand ordered because the fact-finding that a trial judge must ordinarily undertake in the course of determining whether to grant declaratory relief did not occur.