AC45972 - High Watch Recovery Center, Inc. v. Planning & Zoning Commission ("In this certified zoning appeal, the plaintiff, High Watch Recovery Center, Inc., appeals from the judgment of the Superior Court dismissing its administrative appeal. The plaintiff brought the underlying appeal to the Superior Court from a decision of the defendant, the Planning and Zoning Commission of the Town of Kent (commission), denying its special permit application that proposed the addition of a thirty foot by seventy foot greenhouse to its property located at 47 Carter Road in Kent. The commission denied the plaintiff's application because it determined that the plaintiff's proposed greenhouse was an illegal expansion, rather than a permissible intensification, of its valid nonconforming use of the property. On appeal, the plaintiff claims that the court erroneously concluded that (1) the plaintiff could not, as a matter of law, intensify its valid nonconforming use of the property because the intensification doctrine recognized by our Supreme Court in Zachs v. Zoning Board of Appeals, 218 Conn. 324, 332, 589 A.2d 351 (1991), does not apply to a nonconforming use that arises out of a previously issued special permit and (2) the substantial evidence in the record supported the commission's determination that the plaintiff's proposed greenhouse was an illegal expansion of its valid nonconforming use. For the reasons that follow, we agree with the plaintiff and reverse the judgment of the Superior Court.")