context: Additional procedures for State and local enforcement are present, as well, within the local by-law and G. Since the commission has temporized and handled the matter in a piecemeal fashion, and Yellin completed the work prior to the issuance of the decision, now under appeal, the question before us has been reduced to an abstraction. It no longer reflects whether the commission intends to seek enforcement and, as a practical matter, is without effect.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 413 Mass. 736, 740
citation_a.parenthetical: "A regulatory takings claim often is not mature until the validity of the challenged local regulation has been determined"
citation_a.sentence: See also Steinbergh v. Cambridge, 413 Mass. 736, 740 (1992), cert. denied, 508 U.S. 909 (1993) (“A regulatory takings claim often is not mature until the validity of the challenged local regulation has been determined”).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 53 Mass. App. Ct. 120, 123
citation_b.parenthetical: issue preclusion does not apply if prior decisions not final
citation_b.sentence: See Green v. Brookline, 53 Mass. App. Ct. 120, 123 (2001) (issue preclusion does not apply if prior decisions not final).