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Coalition urges lawmakers to restore municipal agriculture exemption and enshrine a right to grow
Summary
A broad coalition of agricultural and food‑security groups told the committee they intend to pursue legislation to reinstate the municipal exemption as understood since 1987 and to create a statutory right to grow food free from municipal zoning prohibitions, following a Vermont Supreme Court decision.
Caroline Sherman Gordon, legislative director, described a newly expanded coalition of farm and food‑system stakeholders working to respond to a Vermont Supreme Court decision that the coalition says removed a long‑standing municipal exemption for farming.
"What we want to come forward with is, a, to reinstate the municipal exemption as it was understood since 1987, and b, to also establish a right to grow food free from municipal exemption so…
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