Secretary, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. Irish

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• holding that trial court’s broad discretion “did not include the authority to simply decline to rule” on critical issue and that trial court has a “fundamental duty” to “resolve the issues before it”
• explaining that allowed uses are separate from farming exemption, which requires current and ongoing use of land for growing crops
• noting that notice is sufficient if person of ordinary intelligence would understand what is prohibited
• noting that “[t]he trial court has a fundamental duty to make all findings necessary to support its conclusions, resolve the issues before it, and provide an adequate basis for appellate review”
• observing that the trial court “has a fundamental duty to . . . resolve the issues before it, and provide an adequate basis for appellate review”
• explaining that decisionmaker “has a fundamental duty to make all findings necessary to support its conclusions, resolve the issues 4 before it, and provide an adequate basis for appellate review”

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