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Land Use Review Board debates making forestry exempt like farming under Act 250; ANR input pending
Summary
The Land Use Review Board reviewed draft language to extend farming‑style exemptions under Act 250 to forestry and logging below 2,500 feet, preserve existing permit conditions, and discussed whether to automate 'Stony Brook' parcel delineations; the board is awaiting Agency of Natural Resources feedback.
Janet Hurley, chair of the Land Use Review Board, told members the board would concentrate on recommendations 9 and 10 in draft language that would change how Act 250 treats forestry and logging.
"So recommend that the legislature extend exemptions to forestry and logging like those that are available for farming under 2,500 feet," Hurley read from the draft, adding that the change would preserve "existing permit conditions" and allow tree‑removal limits to remain conditions on future projects.
The proposal is intended to create parity between farming and forestry in statute. Kirsten, a board member, said the draft mirrors the farming language currently in statute so that land an applicant designates for logging or forestry management would be treated the same as land designated for farming "at least insofar as, at the time…
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