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RPC launches town-plan toolkit and sets compressed timeline for regional plan review
Summary
The RPC announced a new online town-plan toolkit, a pilot select-board meetup and a compressed schedule for the regional plan review, asking commissioners to review draft chapters over a month-long period.
At its Jan. 13 meeting the Rutland Regional Planning Commission (RPC) announced a hard launch of a new online town-plan toolkit, details of a VLCT/RPC select-board meetup pilot, and a compressed schedule for review of the RPC’s regional plan draft.
Why it matters: the town-plan toolkit and the accelerated review schedule aim to help municipalities meet updated statutory adoption requirements and to give commissioners and staff more opportunities for focused chapter-level feedback before the plan reaches formal adoption steps later in 2025.
Staff described the town-plan toolkit as a new web resource under the RPC’s town planning program that consolidates guidance on preparing, engaging the public and adopting town plans, including checklists that align required planning elements with page numbers for easier verification during local adoption. The toolkit was credited to Logan Solomon, identified in the meeting as the RPC’s town planner, and staff said the toolkit will be the subject of a hard launch this month after a soft launch in…
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