In Re Poole

This is an appeal from the Caledonia Superior Court’s “affirmance” of the St. Johnsbury Planning Commission’s grant of site plan approval for the proposed development of a “McDonald’s” restaurant and the St. Johnsbury Zoning Board of Adjustment’s grant of a zoning permit for the construction of the restaurant. 24 V.S.A. §§ 4472, 4475. After an extensive evidentiary hearing, the trial court issued findings of fact and concluded that the site plan as prepared was in substantial compliance with the appropriate provisions of the St. Johnsbury zoning ordinance, and that the proposed restaurant was…