Editorial: Kudos for passage of CHIP

“Adequate housing is an essential priority of any community striving for a viable economic future.”

Through CHIP the town would be able to borrow money to build municipal infrastructure.

It’s a proposal that could deliver key funding for roads, sidewalks and water/sewer connections that would serve the second phase of the new Stonecrop Meadows neighborhood.

The largest planned neighborhood in Middlebury’s history is projected to expand to 70 housing units by the end of this year.

After multiple years of planning and permitting, the largest subdivision in Middlebury’s history is quickly moving from two-dimensional drawings to vertical construction on a 30-acre site off Seminary Street Extension.

Governor Phil Scott and U.S. Senator Peter Welch joined local town and college leaders at Town Hall Theater’s new space on Monday, February 3, for the official groundbreaking of Middlebury’s Stonecrop Meadows mixed-income housing development.

Only four years ago, the notion of siting a new, 254-home neighborhood anywhere near Middlebury Village seemed like a pipedream.

I’ve been glad to see robust local coverage of housing issues in the Addy Indy. I’d like to elaborate on a few pieces from last week.

Middlebury College has earmarked a combined $3.5 million toward the impending renovation/expansion of the Ilsley Public Library and construction of a major, mixed-income housing project at the northeast edge of Middlebury village.

Developers of Stonecrop Meadows — a proposed 218-unit, mixed-income housing project slated for 35 acres off Middlebury’s Seminary Street Extension — are readying their plan for a final review by the town in hopes for a November groundbreaking.

Officials of Summit Properties, one of the largest housing proposals in the history of Middlebury, gave the town selectboard a progress report on Tuesday.

The Agency of Commerce & Community Development on Monday announced more than $4 million in tax incentives to support 31 rehabilitation and revitalization projects throughout Vermont’s designated downtown and village centers — including three projects here … (read more)

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 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.

The starting gun has officially been fired on the financing and review of a project that would bring 150-250 units of new mixed-income housing to Middlebury.