Key legal question
Whether the municipal proceedings were vitiated by a violation of the right to be heard because decisive files were withheld and the authority engaged in impermissible reporting.
Extracted holding
A violation of the right to be heard was acknowledged, but the procedural defect was cured on appeal.
Extracted reasoning
The court accepted that decisive records had been withheld and that the authority's handling of the file was not permissible; however, the defect could be remedied in the appellate proceedings.