June 1, 2009
SAVE THE DATE for the Vermont Planners Association Fall Conference! This year it will be held on October 16, 2009 at the ALL SOULS INTERFAITH GATHERING CENTER right on the shore of Lake Champlain in Shelburne, VT. The focus will be on Density and Design for Small Communities with speakers and panelists to be announced. […]
Late-breaking news! The Washington County DFIRM maps should become effective in September 2010. HOWEVER, it is Vermont’s Flood Plain Management-River Management Program’s goal for all towns to have adopted flood hazard area regulations (FHAR) by the end of MARCH 2010 thereby preventing a “flood” of regs for approval by FEMA in September. The FHAR’s will […]
May 19, 2009
At the April Central Vermont Regional Planning Commission’s monthly Commission meeting, Buzz Ferver of the Composting Association of Vermont (CAV) discussed all the benefits of compost, the need for community scale composting operations and the latest development in legislation related to composting. According to CAV’s website “the Composting Association of Vermont supports and promotes organics […]
The latest “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Housing and Wages in Vermont” in now available.According to the April 28 press release distributed by John Fairbanks, VHFA, this year’s report found: The median purchase price of a home in Vermont has remained stable in the last year, at $200,000. A Vermont household would need […]