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CCRPC outlines 2025 state policy priorities; members prepare for impending housing targets
Summary
Staff reviewed the commission’s update of policy priorities for the 2025 legislative session, highlighting housing targets, regional governance review, transit financing and potential Act 250 adjustments; members asked staff to clarify state housing-target methodology once the administration issues the numbers.
CCRPC staff on Jan. 15 summarized the commission’s 2025 policy and priority list for the Vermont Legislature and discussed near-term items staff will monitor, including state housing targets, regional governance review, transit funding and potential Act 250 adjustments.
Charlie and Taylor (CCRPC staff) told the board they are briefing legislative committees about the RPCs’ role and are watching administration moves on infrastructure financing for housing and potential additional Act 250 updates. Taylor reported the administration was expected to release statewide housing targets and county-level breakdowns "soon," and staff said they have a draft local methodology that can be used to apportion regional targets to municipalities. Board members asked that staff provide the administration’s methodology and then overlay the commission’s draft approach so municipalities can assess implications.
Taylor noted the commission’s Planning Advisory Committee had prepared a draft method to distribute regional targets to municipalities in an effort to de-politicize the process; staff proposed testing the administration’s targets with that draft methodology once the state publishes them. Bart (board member) asked staff to be prepared to explain the state method and CCRPC’s proposed approach in detail; Taylor agreed to present the methodology at a future meeting.
Other priorities listed by staff included continued monitoring of transit financing and GMT issues, climate resilience and flood-related work, and work arising from the regional and county governance study committee.
Why it matters: state housing targets and how they are apportioned to municipalities can shape local planning, infrastructure investment and development strategies. The commission plans to provide municipalities with tools and a proposed allocation method to inform local conversations.
Staff committed to a follow-up presentation with methodology details when the state releases the regional targets.
