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Commissioner outlines executive-order reforms: permitting changes, brownfields review and inventory of state land for housing
Summary
Alex Farrell briefed the committee on the administration's executive order and related work to streamline permitting, reassess environmental media standards affecting corrective action plans, and inventory state-owned parcels (BGS, VTrans) to identify developable sites and an expedited divestment process.
Alex Farrell, commissioner of the Department of Housing and Community Development, told the General & Housing Committee that an executive order signed by the governor includes energy-code alignment and wetlands buffer questions but that other elements of the order — particularly cross-agency process changes — may be more consequential for accelerating housing development.
Farrell said the administration is discussing a single-entry or plan-level approach to permitting so that state permit requirements could be addressed earlier in a…
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