Wesco, Inc. v. City of Montpelier

How courts have described this case

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• zoning administrator referred application to planning commission for site plan review; zoning administrator did not make an appealable decision on the merits of the permit until after litigation over planning commission decision had concluded
• equitable estoppel is based on grounds of fair dealing and justice, and may be invoked against government only in extraordinary circumstances
• government may be estopped where fair dealing and equity require it and the facts show that the aggrieved party relied to its detriment
• “Ordinances are to be interpreted according to the basic rules of statutory construction and enforced in accordance with their plain meaning.”
• “Ordinances are to be interpreted according to the basic rules of statutory construction and enforced in accordance with their plain meaning.”
• government may be estopped where fair dealing and equity require it and the facts show that the aggrieved party relied to its detriment

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