Bristol celebrates opening of Firehouse Apartments

While the Stoney Hill business park nears completion on Bristol’s Firehouse Drive, community members are celebrating the opening of a new affordable housing development across the street. 

The addition of a single clause to one sentence in the Vergennes City Plan could open up a vacant 14.4-acre parcel off the north end of Main Street for around 130 housing units.

The Middlebury Development Review Board on Monday, Sept. 25, conducted its first review of preliminary plan by Summit Properties to build a 218-unit, mixed-income housing project on 35 acres of Middlebury College-owned land off Seminary Street Extension.

The event, “Addison Housing Rocks!” is dedicated to raising awareness about the pressing need for affordable housing in our region.

How can we as a community make it possible for folks working in the area to have a decent place to live that is not financially out of reach?

The local housing crisis is complex enough that it will take more than one relief method to fix it.

The Addison County Regional Planning Commission this summer is taking a three-pronged approach to help create more dwelling opportunities in what is currently a super-tight housing market in our area.

A new crop of affordable housing units is taking shape in Bristol. Once completed, the Firehouse Apartments development will provide 20 mixed-income units, with the first tenants set to move in this September. 

In the face of a statewide, ongoing housing crisis, officials in the towns of Lincoln and Monkton are looking at ways to boost housing opportunities in ways that meet current needs and maintain historic growth patterns. 

Two upcoming events will provide Addison County residents with opportunities to witness — and weigh in on — efforts to create more local affordable housing.

Bristol’s planning commission has spent the past several months exploring potential changes to the town’s zoning regulations that would help expand housing opportunities in and around Bristol’s village area.

In my 40-year career in Massachusetts with children and their families, I never knew any family that wanted to remain without a permanent home of their own.

“Can anybody live in Vermont?” asked the two young boys who had been visiting us for a couple of summers in the 1980s.

The Vermont Housing Finance Agency (VHFA) on Monday awarded Summit Properties $6,075,405 to help drive down the costs of building 30-40 units of for-sale “workforce” housing.

Local advocates for the homeless continue to battle for resources to assist one of the state’s most vulnerable populations, and they’ve developed another currency — to go along with people power and dollars — to assist in their efforts: Information.