Penobscot Area Housing Development Corp. v. City of Brewer

The Corporation sought to house six mentally disabled individuals with two rotating on-site staff members in a home zoned for single-family residential use, but the zoning ordinance's family definition, requiring a domestic bond typically implying a permanent head-of-household figure, expressly excluded arrangements resembling boarding houses or fraternity houses, and residents stayed on average only one to one-and-a-half years with no control over who came or left.