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Committee reviews H.50 language to inventory state lands for potential affordable housing sites
Summary
At the Feb. 13 meeting, the Corrections & Institutions committee discussed House Bill 50, which would require the Buildings and General Services commissioner to report on state real property potentially suitable for conversion to affordable housing; Agency of Transportation staff outlined parcel data and constraints.
During the same Feb. 13 Corrections & Institutions meeting the committee examined draft language in House Bill 50 that would require the commissioner of Buildings and General Services (BGS) to report — at the start of each biennium — on state real property that might be suitable for conversion into affordable housing.
Rob White, project delivery bureau director at the Agency of Transportation, told the committee that AOT maintains extensive parcel data and that a statewide parcel mapping project completed about a decade ago (now managed by the Vermont Center for Geographic Information) provides a searchable inventory of properties the state owns. White said that with GIS queries the agency can…
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