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Homes for All toolkit presented; presenter urges focus on homeowners and first-time buyers
Summary
Zoning Administrator David Austin introduced Tim Cook, who said the state's Homes for All toolkit should prioritize homeowners and first-time buyers rather than established developers and asked the council to take talking points to legislators.
David Austin, Vergennes Zoning Administrator, introduced Tim Cook to present the Vermont Department of Housing and Community Development's 'Homes for All' toolkit, a program selecting Vergennes as one of five Vermont communities for outreach and implementation. Cook said the toolkit is intended to help homeowners add dwelling units to existing properties and described the range of structures and regulatory models intended to work with Act 47 local approval processes.
Cook told the council that training sessions had been attended primarily by developers owning multiple properties rather than owner-occupants, and he urged local representatives to press state legislators to steer grant opportunities toward homeowners and first-time buyers rather than established development interests. Alderwoman Sue Rakowski asked whether the group could prepare talking points; Cook agreed that a set of talking points would be useful to guide outreach and advocacy.
