The Vermont Statutes Online
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Subchapter
010
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SALVAGE YARDS
(Cite as: 24 V.S.A. § 2254)
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§ 2254. Aesthetic, environmental, and community welfare considerations
At the hearing regarding location of the salvage yard, the legislative body may also
take into account the clean, wholesome, and attractive environment which has been
declared to be of vital importance to the continued stability and development of the
tourist and recreational industry of the State and the general welfare of its citizens
by considering whether or not the proposed location can be reasonably protected from
having an unfavorable effect thereon. In this regard the legislative body may consider
collectively the type of road servicing the salvage yard or from which the salvage
yard may be seen, the natural or artificial barriers protecting the salvage yard from
view, the proximity of the proposed salvage yard to established tourist and recreational
areas or main access routes, thereto, proximity to neighboring residences, groundwater
resources, surface waters, wetlands, drinking water supplies, consistency with an
adopted town plan, as well as the reasonable availability of other suitable sites
for the salvage yard. (Added 1969, No. 98, § 1; amended 2009, No. 56, § 12.)