housing
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Community Forum: A shot in the arm for housing in VT
Vermont just took a bold, historic step toward solving one of the most urgent issues facing our state: the lack of affordable and attainable homes for Vermonters of…
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Letter to the editor: Proposed Middlebury development is poorly sited
As a resident of the South Ridge development, I am strongly opposed to the plans for the 4-story apartment building that is being proposed for the small corner…
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Letter to the editor: Middle Road housing project has some flaws
In the Addison Independent edition Thursday, April 17, 2025, a rendering of a proposed housing project near the intersection of Middle Road and Court Street was shown. The…
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Letter to the editor: Midd industrial park could also include housing
The recent article on preparations to market land in Middlebury’s industrial park rightly notes the opportunity ahead. But as the town readies nearly 200 acres for commercial development,…
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Four-story apartment building eyed for Route 7 in Midd
A Pennsylvania attorney and developer is proposing a 32-unit, four-story apartment building — that would also host a restaurant — on a 0.71-acre lot near the intersection of…
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Looser Act 250 rules prompt developers to build more housing
Lawmakers had hoped the temporary carve-outs would help ease Vermont’s acute housing shortage. Developers are using the new exemptions in at least a dozen locations across the state.
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Letter to the editor: Local businesses want legislative action on housing
The regulatory and municipal zoning changes, tax proposals and funding in bills H.719 and S.311 would make it easier and faster to build more housing while avoiding sprawl.
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Middlebury’s Stonecrop Meadow housing plan starts taking shape
MIDDLEBURY — Developers of a proposed 200-unit, mixed-income housing project off Middlebury’s Seminary Street Extension said they’ll file their preliminary plans with the town’s Development Review Board before…
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More details coming Wednesday on Middlebury housing complex
MIDDLEBURY — The company that is planning to build more than 88 units of “mixed-income” housing off Seminary Street Extension in Middlebury will host its second public information…
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$30M provides rent, mortgage relief to Vermonters
MONTPELIER — Gov. Phil Scott, the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), the Vermont State Housing Authority and the Vermont State Housing Finance Agency on Friday announced…
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College to house some hospital staff
MIDDLEBURY — This past weekend Middlebury College and Porter Medical Center announced preliminary plans to house some hospital staff on the college campus during the coronavirus pandemic. “We…
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Changes eyed to boost housing in Vergennes
VERGENNES — With a land area of only 2.4 square miles, the city of Vergennes is one of Vermont’s smallest municipalities. But it nonetheless faces the same problems…