Landowner who reasonably relies on zoning administrator’s advice cannot be required to remove a noncomplying structure

In re Langlois/Novicki Variance Denial, 2017 VT 76, 2017 Vt. LEXIS 96, 2017 WL 3662437 (Vt. 2o17), the Vermont Supreme Court held that an owner cannot be compelled to remove a structure that violates the zoning law when the owner built the structure on the basis of advice given by the zoning admininstrator on its legality.

Joseph William Singer

Bussey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Landowner who reasonably relies on zoning administrator’s advice cannot be required to remove a noncomplying structure

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