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Lavery, C. J., and Schaller and Dupont, Js. Argued November 2, 2000--officially released March 13, 2001 Counsel

Robert A. Fuller, for the appellant (plaintiff). Thomas W. Beecher, for the appellee (defendant).
Opinion

DUPONT, J. The plaintiffs, Perry Lewis, Basha Szymanska1 and Downington Manufacturing Company (Downington), appeal from the judgment of the trial court dismissing their administrative appeal from the decision of the defendant planning and zoning commission of the town of Ridgefield (commission) to amend two sections of the Ridgefield subdivision regulations. The plaintiffs claim that the court improperly found that the amendments neither classically nor statutorily aggrieved them and, therefore, improperly concluded that they lacked standing to maintain the appeal. We agree with the plaintiffs and reverse the judgment of

the trial court. The parties do not dispute the following facts. On September 8, 1998, after several public hearings, the commission adopted certain amendments to

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