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Ways & Means agrees to remove change to voluntary buyout language; Natural Resources to review redevelopment provision
Summary
The Ways & Means Committee agreed by straw poll to remove a proposed change to 20 V.S.A. §51 that would have allowed redevelopment of acquired floodplain properties. Committee members said the Natural Resources Committee should review any redevelopment authority for buyout properties.
The Ways & Means Committee agreed by straw poll to remove a proposed change to the committee's report that would alter the statutory rules for voluntary buyouts under 20 V.S.A. ' 51.
The proposed amendment, described by Tucker Anderson, legislative counsel, would delete the first instance of amendment in the Ways & Means report related to the voluntary buyout program. Anderson said the deleted language had struck the statute's existing requirement that properties acquired through the program be held in…
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