SC20839 - Wihbey v. Zoning Board of Appeals (“In this certified appeal, we must decide whether a zoning
regulation that permitted the use of a property as a single-family dwelling
allowed the owner to rent the property on a short-term basis. The plaintiff,
Frances Wihbey, was ordered to cease and desist from renting his property to
guests on a short-term basis by the Pine Orchard Association zoning enforcement
officer. The plaintiff appealed to the defendant, the Zoning Board of Appeals
of the Pine Orchard Association (board), which upheld the cease and desist
order. The plaintiff then appealed to the trial court, which reversed the
board’s decision. The board and the intervening defendants, Michael B. Hopkins
and Jacqueline C. Wolff, appealed from the trial court’s judgment to the
Appellate Court, which affirmed in part and reversed in part the trial court’s
judgment. See Wihbey v. Zoning Board of Appeals, 218 Conn. App. 356,
396, 292 A.3d 21 (2023). We then granted the defendants’ petition for
certification to appeal, limited to the following issue: ‘Did the Appellate
Court correctly conclude that short-term rentals of a single-family dwelling
constituted a permissible use of the subject property under the 1994 Pine
Orchard Association zoning regulations?’ Wihbey v. Zoning Board of Appeals,
346 Conn. 1019, 1020, 292 A.3d 1254 (2023). We affirm the judgment of the
Appellate Court.”)