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Environmental Cases

Burak Anderson & Melloni, PLC maintains a searchable database of summaries of Vermont Environmental Court decisions from August 1991 to November 2006. The database contains the case caption, date of decision, docket number, and a brief summary. You may search the database for a specific case if you know the name of a case, docket number, or by keyword. Enter a search term and press Submit.

Docket # Date Caption Case Summary
E97-039 14-Nov-97 In Re: Paul Handy

Where an application is filed prior to the adoption of amended zoning bylaws, the applicant may choose whether the application be considered under the old or amended bylaws.

E97-054 14-Nov-97 In Re: Jolley Associates

Where an application is filed after the adoption of amended zoning bylaws, the application must be considered under the amended bylaws. Where the Selectboard considered a conditional use permit prior to review by the ZBA, the Court will remand...

E97-059 22-Oct-97 In Re: Appeal of Estate of Rope

Subdivision has requisite frontage for two reason: (1) it is a new lot on a private ROW with more than the required frontage; and (2) the lot is on a dead-end private road for which the Planning Commission and the Court are authorized to reduce...

E97-069, E97-093 20-Oct-97 Secretary, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. Frank Irish and City of South Burlington v. Frank Irish

Respondent failed to appeal notice of violation; therefore, court cannot consider it in present enforcement case. Court affirms remedial portions of administrative order because remedial procedure is reasonably likely to achieve the intended...

E97-078 22-Oct-97 In Re: Appeal of Major

Appellant cannot contest definition of building as seasonal because he failed to appeal three prior actions by zoning administrator restricting the use of the property to seasonal use.

E97-132 17-Mar-98 In Re Appeal of: Francis Larocque and Andrew Pepin

Application for conditional use denied because its physical design towering over the surrounding field will adversely affect the character of the area and the failure to prevent the flotation of the septic tank and pump station and any fuel...

S 24-95 Fc 10-Apr-96 In Re: Application of Rene Pelissier and Brenda Sears

Zoning regulations in effect when a permit application is filed control. Motion to Intervene by Town tolls the running of an appeal period. Conditions not supported by zoning regulations are illegal and may be invalidated at any time.