In Re Molgano

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• holding that where the applicant diligently pursued a municipal zoning permit over four years and then, after obtaining the zoning permit, filed an Act 250 permit application the applicant’s rights under Criterion 10 vested at the time of the first complete municipal permit application
• zoning bylaws are designed to implement plan and may provide meaning where plan is ambiguous
• broad goal of discouraging transient commercial uses not enforceable basis for denying Act 250 permit
• under Act 250, zoning bylaws must be used to interpret the meaning of a town plan, to avoid giving “nonregulatory abstractions” in the town plan the “legal force of zoning laws.”
• under Act 250, zoning bylaws must be used to interpret the meaning of a town plan, to avoid giving A nonregulatory abstractions@ in the town plan the A legal force of zoning laws.@

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