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Select board directs Rutland planning commission to draft subdivision bylaw
Summary
At its July 10 meeting, the Rutland Town Planning Commission said the select board instructed it to prepare a subdivision bylaw rather than amend the existing subdivision ordinance or adopt zoning. Commissioners agreed to gather model bylaws and compare them to current rules and to Act 250 requirements.
RUTLAND, Vt. — The Rutland Town Planning Commission on July 10 reported that the town’s select board instructed the commission to draft a subdivision bylaw instead of pursuing a zoning bylaw or merely updating the existing subdivision ordinance.
Commission members said the select board, after hearing from town counsel, favored a bylaw because it offers stronger enforcement mechanisms and a fuller adoption process that includes multiple hearings and an option for additional public review. "It would have to go through this body and go through some hearings, the select board in hearings, and there's an option to have the public do something afterwards," said K., the planning commission chair (name not provided).
The direction matters because Vermont land-use laws such as Act 250 already apply to some larger developments;…
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