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Housing & Conservation Board outlines land conservation, housing projects and Act 59 inventory
Summary
The Housing and Conservation Board briefed the committee on its dual mission of conserving land and supporting housing, highlighted recent projects, and described an Act 59 (Community Resilience and Biodiversity Protection Act) inventory and funding sources including the property transfer tax and ARPA allocations.
An unnamed director of the Housing and Conservation Board gave committee members a briefing that combined the board’s conservation and housing work, examples of locally driven projects and an update on implementation activities under Act 59. The director opened by describing the board’s statutory mission as supporting both conservation and economic vitality and said the board works with nonprofits, municipalities and private landowners.
The director described multidecade examples of projects where conservation and housing objectives were combined: acquiring and interpreting the Robert Frost house in Shaftesbury; conserving land around a lake to create public recreation access; and helping three municipalities enable 23 units of housing on conserved land via zoning changes and infrastructure extensions.…
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