by Guy Page
At his weekly press conference, Gov. Phil Scott embraced an Act 250 reform and housing bill introduced today with tri-partisan sponsorship.
H719 would eliminate most Act 250 jurisdiction in urban areas and relax current Act 250 restrictions in almost any area of Vermont with adequate wastewater and zoning.
Scott said he hopes the “broad coalition of House and Senate members” sponsoring the bill won’t get held up in committees of jurisdiction. It is sponsored by Reps. Lisa Hango (R-Berkshire), Katherine Sims (D-Craftsbury), Taylor Small (I-Winooski), and Ashley Bartley (R-Georgia) and more than 30 others across the political spectrum.
The bill also has the backing of the Senate’s housing committee chair, Kesha Ram (D-Chittenden). “We hope to vote the bill out by early February,” Ram said. “We need an Act 250 that gets communities out of floodplain and landslide zones.”
“We can’t believe in climate change without believing in support for climate refugees” – including our own neighbors, Ram said.
Scott, Administration leaders, and lawmakers said the bill would prompt homebuilding and renovation in downtowns and across Vermont. “Easier, faster and cheaper” housing development is the watchword of H719, Sen. Randy Brock said.
H719 also would:
- Promote “infill” – adding unit density to existing urban residential areas
- Convert hotels into permanent housing
- Provide tax incentives for building homes in blighted areas.
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Dont think I like the idea of landfill in any capacity
Enjoy the new look to Vermont replete with urban sprawl, high density housing, cheap construction, and bland, uninteresting architecture!! Hooray!
And yet again, if you believe that this mess is somehow going to benefit your family members – this type of housing is being so aggressively pushed to benefit the homeless, illegal aliens, migrants and FORCED “diversity” crowds toward the “equitable” housing plan set in place by the Obama/Biden administrations (LOOK IT UP) for the new “liberal world order”.
Never were particularly keen on those pesky skiers & second home buyers coming into Vermont? Not to worry much longer. They will be being slowly but surely replaced by drug dealers, gangs, criminals the ever-so-eager “avid to assimilate” migrants from Africa. You see how well that has worked out in Maine, correct? Not to long thereafter, Real Estate prices will stagnate & eventually plummet, so buying into crime-ridden, drugged-up VT will be MUCH easier!!! JUst as everyone asked for.
And to think…..many conservatives were so eager to jump on this bandwagon being sold to the public as “workforce” housing. Fooled again! Poor, poor Vermont. Say bye-bye to your tourism, folks……just maybe those BMW drivin’, fashion conscience, organic food eatin’ weekenders were so bad after all……
The Real Estate Market is Controlled by the Free Market, NOT the government! The exception to that is Communist Countries….
And sorry for all the typos.
KEESHA RAM: “We can’t believe in climate change without believing in support for “climate refugees”. She JUST admitted WHY this housing is being built and for whom it is being built for!!!!!!
I’m out. Been there, done this. Twice now over the course of living. I have ZERO interest in living in forced socio-economic diversity engineered by Obama/Biden which fundamentally transforms this area & this nation & this culture per Obama’s radicalized “equity” ideologies & policies which, ODDLY ENOUGH, are NOT being implemented in MARTHA’S VINEYARD!!!
Don’t let your town build a poop plant or you are screwed! Pay close attention to your select boards meetings!
when government tells you how and where to live//// you are not free/// this act 250 reform is just another dog and pony show/// build your own house where you want to build it//// i have had enough of this crap ///////
“We need an Act 250 that gets communities out of floodplain and landslide zones.” Apparently, Keesha Ram doesn’t grasp the topographical features of Vermont or weather cycles tracked for over 100 years. Yet, intelligence is not required to sit in a selection seat.
Interesting factoid coming out of Sweden. A current cold snap there left EV buses stranded and blocking the highways. In Germany, the farmers are revolting and protesting in droves. The EU green agenda is failing and the greenie-meanies are stepping down or getting forced out of office. Hallelujah!
It is failing here as well. The final nail is about to hit the green new deal coffin as the economy sputters and chokes with blocked supply chains and liquidity disappearing. No matter what they say or do, they are finished and they know it. Hence, the desperate panic button pushing to legislate dead on arrival scams and shams. The only thing they care about is filling their own pockets before the plug and the rug is pulled out from under all of them.
Climate refuges, really. The climate doesn’t change that quickly. This narrative is directly taken from the United Nations and World Economic Forum as well as her Social Justice and Climate Justice agendas. The United Nations to create its pluralistic vision intentionally drives and supports migration. The UN works with many nonprofits to achieve its goal like Doctors Without Boarders. These entities distribute maps and set up safe houses, proving these migrants with specific travel routes and addresses to go to when they reach a specific country. This isn’t a Republican or Democrat issue. This is an American issue a threat to national sovereignty.
am i not smart enough not to build a house near a river that floods every year/// i am sick of the word ///////communities/////////////
I discovered something recently when chatting with Senator Nader Hashim on Monday. I will send an op ed to Mr. Page with details. I was wrong about a point on homelessness and need to correct that publicly.
We need “an act 250 that will get communities out of floodplains…”
“The bill would prompt home building and renovation in downtowns…”
Seems a little contradictory, no?
The modus operandi, at least in the Waterbury area, seems to be to cluster multi family affordable housing in the downtown areas while preserving the areas, like Waterbury center, for those who can afford single family or second homes on large lots.
This housing “crisis” coincides with the “crisis” of young people staying and living in Vermont because young people have few options. Older folks with money have monopolized the single family housing market in rural areas due to act 250 limiting single family housing developments and encouraging multi family subsidized housing in downtowns.
Land, in the country, for thee, but not for me.
You fail to realize that most of not all of the older home buyers did not create or influence Act 250. We have been subjected to its limitations as well as young people. The citizenry of Vermont has been advocating to update this act for some time with no success. Two questions you should be asking is why now and what are the geopolitical drivers behind this change?