In Re Laberge Moto-Cross Track

¶ 1. The Laberges, landowners, appeal from an Environmental Court decision requiring them to obtain a zoning permit and conditional use approval for a private recreational motocross track they built on their residential property in rural Hinesburg. The Environmental Court reasoned that the network of earthen berms, connected by a single-lane dirt track, constituted a structure for purposes of the local zoning ordinance and thus qualified as the type of land development that would require a permit. Because we do not find the track to be a structure of the type contemplated by the zoning…