Source: Burlington Free Press, June 21, 2010

By Joel Banner Baird

“MONTPELIER — Developers will not be required to pay compensation for about 11 acres of prime agricultural land they paved over in Colchester last year, the Vermont Supreme Court has ruled.

The decision reverses an earlier ruling by the state Environmental Court, which found that a forested swath of what is now Brookside Village merited the payment of “mitigation fees,” which normally are invested in off-site land or housing conservation projects. [More ...]