board of appeals
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6.0
- noun
- Formal
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junta de apelaciones
- The Cook County Board of Appeals will hear several cases regarding zoning issues next week.
- Zoning Board of Appeals
Examples
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(n184) After Stubborn Ltd. Partnership filed a comprehensive permit application with the Barnstable Board of Appeals, the Board denied the permit on jurisdictional grounds.
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Yesterday, I presented my case to the Board of Appeals after my permit was denied.
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I'll go to the Board of Appeals.
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The board of appeals may also deny a comprehensive permit application or approve it with conditions that make the project uneconomic, but only if the local decision is "consistent with local needs."
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For instance, to protect a town's water supply, the board of appeals may be able to force a developer to install sewer and drainage lines for a proposed development, so long as they do not make the project uneconomic.
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In granting the permit, the Boston Zoning Board of Appeal determined that "historically and currently, the South Bay/Newmarket Industrial Development Area has been home to a broad diversity of industrial and commercial uses..."
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To mitigate the power of local zoning, Massachusetts passed the Comprehensive Permit Law, which allows local zoning boards of appeals to override local zoning if certain requirements are met.
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The MRF in Fulton County has been closed pending Zoning Board of Appeals review, and Microlife is hoping to establish a similar operation in Rockdale County, where Conyers is located.
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If less than ten percent of a town's housing stock is subsidized, 40B allows local zoning boards of appeals to override local zoning and grant comprehensive permits to build affordable housing under a variety of subsidy programs.
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The local Board of Appeals reviewed the decision and upheld the original ruling on the construction project.
Synonyms
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3.9
A group of officials who review and decide on complaints about decisions
A group of officials who hear and decide appeals outside court
How Authoritative
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally combines 'board' (a committee) with 'appeals' (requests for review), so its meaning — a committee that hears appeals — is directly derivable from the constituents. The linking 'of' and the common 'board of X' compositional pattern is cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows the words should understand it.
Etymology
The term board of appeals comes from the simple image of a group sitting at a single board, or table, to hear appeals — people making an 'appeal' or asking for a decision to be changed. So it means a group of officials who listen to those requests and decide what to do.