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Rutland RPC revises regional land-use map after LERB review; two public info sessions set
Summary
The Rutland Regional Planning Commission’s Executive Finance Committee reported map changes required by the Land Use Review Board, including parcel-level ‘snap to parcels’ edits and a reduction in village-area exemptions; two hybrid public sessions are scheduled and a public hearing will be warned in February.
Devin, executive director of the Rutland Regional Planning Commission, told the Executive Finance Committee on Jan. 12 that the RPC has completed the Land Use Review Board (LERB) pre-application review and submitted revised regional plan maps in response to the board’s feedback. The LERB asked for parcelized edits that require the RPC to “snap to parcels,” remove village-area designations and eliminate small rural buffers around buildings, changes Devin said were necessary to meet the LERB’s interpretation of the statute.
Those edits produced measurable shifts in the draft map. Devin said planned growth areas grew by about 0.1 percentage points, village areas declined by about 0.6 points, and the RPC’s mapping now classifies roughly 57% of the region as conservation.…
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