Title: In re Ochs

State: vermont

Issuer: Vermont Supreme Court

Document:

In re Ochs (2005-385)

2006 VT 122

[Filed 27-Nov-2006]

                                 ENTRY ORDER

                                 2006 VT 122

                      SUPREME COURT DOCKET NO. 2005-385

                            SEPTEMBER TERM, 2006


  In re Peter and Carla Ochs           }         APPEALED FROM:
                                       }
                                       }
                                       }         Environmental Board
                                       }
                                       }
                                       }         Declaratory Ruling #547


             In the above-entitled cause, the Clerk will enter:

       ¶  1.  George and Carole Trickett appeal from a decision of the
  Vermont Environmental Board that their neighbors' apple growing operation,
  Crescent Orchards, was a farm and thus exempt from Act 250 review.  The
  Tricketts claim that the apple production company operated by their
  neighbors, Peter and Carla Ochs, is a commercial enterprise, with attendant
  off site production involvement, and it does not qualify for the farming
  exemption.  We affirm. 

       ¶  2.  This Court has experience with the facts in this dispute.  We
  held in Trickett v. Ochs, that Vermont's right to farm law did not apply in
  the circumstances of the case.   2003 VT 91, ¶ 1, 176 Vt. 89,