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· 12/24/1998

In Re Scheiber

Citations

  • 724 A.2d 475
  • 168 Vt. 534
  • 1998 Vt. LEXIS 407

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that a shooting range was not a land development requiring a zoning permit
  • noting that “accessory uses have traditionally involved such various activities as home occupations, tennis courts, and airplane 8 hangers”
  • describing Scheiber’s concern “was based primarily on the fact that the weapons were fired in the general direction of his house.”
  • construing certain recreational activities as “neither regulated nor contemplated” by zoning ordinance
  • describing three occasions where landowners “used the range in connection with a rifle safety course for the benefit of the local chapter of the American Pistol and Rifle Association,” which had also “held four annual picnics at the range”
  • “[D]e minimis uses of private property . . . are neither regulated nor contemplated by the zoning regulations.”

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Judges: Amestoy, Dooley, Morse, Johnson, Skoglund

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