Source: The Associated Press, June 3, 2010
“MONTPELIER, Vt.
Thirty-eight communities around Vermont will benefit from municipal planning grants awarded by Vermont Department of Economic, Housing and Community Development.
Grants of up to $15,000 for each community are designed to help local leaders plan for growth and development. [More ...]
Tags: development, Grants, Planning
By Joel Banner Baird
Source: Burlington Free Press, April 4, 2010
“SHELBURNE — Residents stopped the bulldozers. Three cheers for environmental action? Not this time.
Developers, exasperated by what they saw as Shelburne’s ambivalent review process during the past two years and already having invested considerable time and more than $1 million, abandoned plans in late March for a 250-unit residential community in Shelburne Village. [More ...]
Tags: development, mobile home, Shelburne, Shelburnewood
By Joel Banner Baird
Source: Burlington Free Press, March 25, 2010
“SHELBURNE — Developers for a proposed 256-unit, mixed income residential community in Shelburne canceled their plans Wednesday night — and then watched as the Development Review Board voted to grant the project further leeway.
Throughout the emotionally charged two-hour hearing, members of the public pleaded with developers John Giebink and Charlie Brush to reconsider their withdrawal of the project — and with board members to temper their “approval with conditions” that had effectively killed the project. [More ...]
Tags: development, Shelburne, Shelburnewood
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