Green Development, LLC a/k/a Wind Energy Development, LLC v. Town of Exeter
Syllabus
The plaintiff, Green Development, LLC a/k/a Wind Energy Development, LLC (plaintiff) appealed from a judgment of the Superior Court in favor of the defendant, the Town of Exeter (defendant or the town), which upheld the town's decision to pause, and subsequently to amend, its zoning ordinance. The plaintiff argued on appeal that the trial justice erred in (1) upholding the town's decision to enact an emergency moratorium ordinance, pausing the town's review of the plaintiff's solar-field projects and (2) determining that the plaintiff's submissions for its solar-field projects did not vest pursuant to Rhode Island law.<br><br>The Supreme Court held that the trial justice properly determined that the plaintiff's solar-field submissions did not vest pursuant to Rhode Island law and that the town permissibly enacted its moratorium ordinance.
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