Vermont
Examples and Resources
Wal-Mart Stores v. The Vermont Environmental Board, 1996
Wal-Mart appealed a decision by the Environmental Board that declined a Wal-Mart application for St. Alban’s, Vermont, arguing that the state should not have considered the store’s potential adverse impacts on town tax revenues, and other factors as part of
Vermont’s Land Use and Development Law, ACT 250 (1970)
One of the earliest laws in the nation to coordinate statewide criteria for large-scale development, Act 250 requires developments of more than ten acres to obtain a land use permit from one of the State’s nine Environmental Commissions. Approval depends on meeting conditions that focus on the impacts…
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