Title: In re St. Mary's Church Cell Tower

State: vermont

Issuer: Vermont Supreme Court

Document:

In re St. Mary's Church Cell Tower  (2006-029); 180 Vt. 638; 910 A.2d 925

2006 VT 103

[Filed 24-Oct-2006]


                                 ENTRY ORDER

                                 2006 VT 103

                      SUPREME COURT DOCKET NO. 2006-029

                            SEPTEMBER TERM, 2006


  In re St. Mary's Church Cell Tower  }  APPEALED FROM:
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                                      }  Environmental Court
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                                      }  DOCKET NO. 140-7-05 Vtec

  Trial Judge: Merideth Wright 


       In the above-entitled cause, the Clerk will enter:

       ¶ 1.  Verizon Wireless appeals the Environmental Court's decision to
  remand this case to the Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA).  The
  Environmental Court asked the ZBA to consider whether St. Mary's Church
  needs a conditional use permit before changing its parking arrangements to
  accommodate Verizon Wireless's small-scale telecommunications facility.  We
  reverse the Environmental Court's decision and dismiss the case.  

       ¶ 2.  This case arises out of a proposed project to mount wireless
  cell phone antennas in the towers of St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic
  Church in Newport, Vermont.  From the beginning, this plan met with
  resistance from certain neighbors.  The neighbors lost the first case, in
  which they challenged the zoning permit Verizon Wireless received to
  implement the project.  In re Curtis,  2006 VT 9, 17 Vt. L. Wk. 29,