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Land Use Review Board recommends taking Act 250 housing appeals in-house to speed cases; senators voice fairness concerns
Summary
The LURB's appeals study recommends shifting certain Act 250 appeals from the Environmental Division to the Land Use Review Board to reduce time and cost for housing cases; committee members questioned whether the board can adjudicate appeals impartially and asked for more data and follow-up.
The Land Use Review Board presented an appeals study to the Senate Economic Development, Housing & General Affairs Committee recommending that the board assume appellate review of certain Act 250 cases — a proposal the board says would streamline housing appeals and reduce cost and delay.
"We are opposing for policy reasons, for consistency reasons to take back those appeals," Brooke Dingell, a member of the Land Use Review Board, told the committee as she described the study's recommendation to move Act 250 appeals from the Environmental Division to a board-based appellate model. Dingell said the number of appeals is small — "usually it's 10 to 12 of them" — and that a professional, five-member administrative board…
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