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Committee hears concerns that repeated appeals and de novo review delay housing projects
Summary
Committee members and the Vermont Housing Conservation Board discussed how repeated appeals and de novo judicial review under Act 250 and related procedures can add years and millions of dollars to housing projects, and explored statutory changes to limit duplicative appeals after local, regional and state approvals.
Members of the House Appropriations Committee spent a substantial portion of the Jan. 7 hearing on the effects of litigation and appeals on housing development.
Gus Selig of the Vermont Housing Conservation Board described multiple projects that were delayed by repeated legal challenges. "Under our laws, all it takes is one person to object who went to court, took it to the Supreme Court twice," Selig said, describing a Putney project that…
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