Appeal of Weeks

The Town of Shoreham appeals the Environmental Court’s ruling that two adjoining parcels of land owned by appellees Lloyd and Elizabeth Weeks are exempt from the Town’s minimum lot size requirement and therefore may be developed separately. The Environmental Court found that, although the two exempt undersized lots would ordinarily merge into one unit when appellees brought them into affiliated ownership, a steep ravine between the parcels divides the lots and prevents them from being used functionally as one property and thereby precludes merger. Because we conclude that the Town’s zoning…