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Panel weighs trade-offs: prescriptive local codes can speed approvals but may complicate off-site housing
Summary
Committee members and a VLCT witness debated whether highly prescriptive form-based codes help housing supply by reducing appeals or hinder off-site/manufactured housing by imposing town-by-town design requirements; the witness suggested mitigation tools and funding supports.
During a Jan. 15 committee session, members pressed Samantha Sheehan of the Vermont League of Cities and Towns on how prescriptive local form-based regulations could affect off-site/manufactured housing and uniformity for builders.
A committee participant raised a concern that if each municipality prescribes fine-grained details (for example, shutter and siding specifications), manufacturers of off-site homes would face redesign requirements per town, adding cost and delay. The participant…
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