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What is the future of the village?
Planners tackle rewrite of village land use regulations BY JASON STARR Observer staff
Nineteen-eighties-era fears about strip mall development sweeping down Route 2 through Williston Village gave rise to strict residential density caps and limited commercial options in Williston’s Village Zoning District. The regulations have succeeded in preserving the village’s historic charm, but town planners believe it’s time to rewrite the rules for a new era of
land use, where property owners can create a more dense population center and entrepreneurs can take a shot at a wider array of businesses. Town Planner Emily Heymann is working with the Historic and Architectural Advisory Committee on a draft rewrite of Chapter 42 of the Williston Development Bylaw, which outlines land use regulations in the Village Zoning District. The district runs along Route 2 roughly from Southridge Road to just past the four-way intersection at Oak Hill Road and North Williston Road. Nine businesses and dozens of homes are within its boundaries, as well as Town
CSWD presents Redmond Road expansion plans Composting and recycling improvements in the works recycling center, which would replace the district’s current recycling center on Williston’s Avenue A 2,500-foot waterline ex- C. tension down Redmond Road, With Vermont’s universal reapproved by the Williston Select- cycling law taking full effect in board in the fall, will enable the 2020 — prohibiting food waste Chittenden from being Solid Waste thrown in with ‘It’s time to get District to landfill-bound power its comtrash — the machinery and posting operavolume of technology to do tion, construct food coming a new admininto the disthe sorting and have istration buildtrict’s compeople doing quality ing and, one post center has day, build an surged. So has control and making automated reits water needs sure the machines cycling center. to process The town’s the material are doing their job.’ water line curinto compost. Sarah Reeves rently ends The district CSWD executive director at IBM Road had already — the entrance outgrown the to Globalcapacity of a Foundries. The extension will man-made pond it built on-site take it into the district’s compost- and has been trucking in water, ing center, where much of Chit- purchased mostly from Willistenden County’s food scraps are ton’s supply, to keep the facility processed into gardening products producing compost. for sale under the Green Mountain “We literally have thousands Compost label. Along the way, it and thousands of gallons of water will pass the sites of a proposed delivered a year,” CSWD Executive new administration building and see CSWD page 16 BY JASON STARR Observer staff
Hall, the library, Williston Central School and the Old Brick Church. At the heart of the zone is a nationally registered historic district. “The current standards do not encourage development that will achieve the long-term goals of incremental change, diverse housing and business opportunity,” said Heymann. “The town must adopt something new that looks to the future and encourages the many ways in which the village can remain a vibrant and real place.” Village property owners will be notified through the mail and online channels of upcoming see VILLAGE page 16
Williston’s Village Zoning District is a mix of homes, businesses and town and school buildings. OBSERVER FILE PHOTO BY POGO SENIOR
Rink at the ready
Skaters enjoy an evening on the Village Community Park ice rink Tuesday. Sub-freezing temperatures have allowed the Williston Recreation and Parks Department to open the rink for the season. The rink is open to the public daily until 9:30 p.m. OBSERVER PHOTOS BY AL FREY
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A biweekly trip down memory lane with members of the Williston Historical Society
Angeline Miller (1804-1878) — Williston’s herbal healer BY ELIZABETH A. ALLEN Special to the Observer If you’re familiar with Williston history, you probably know about the Millers. Early residents Elisha Miller Sr. (1766-1847) and second wife Sarah Eliot had 17 children. The Vermont Room in the Dorothy Alling Memorial Library holds a trove of material about this large family, including Laura (Parker) Meredith’s reminiscences and her sister Dorothy (Parker) Alling’s scrapbook. But, even if you know about the Millers, how much do you know about Angeline (Munson) Miller (1804-1878)? She married Elisha Jr., eldest of the aforementioned 17 children, in 1825 or 1826, and they had six or seven children. Elisha Jr. was a land speculator and justice of the peace. Angeline was an amateur artist, a lover of flowers and a prac-
titioner of alternative medicine. Angeline was also an herb doctor. She relied on “The American Vegetable Practice” by Morris Mattson, published in 1841. This two-volume set was, according to the subtitle, “designed for use by families.” “The American Vegetable Practice” covered basic anatomy and bodily functions, uses of various plants, recipes for herbal compounds to cure all ills, and even childbirth and “diseases peculiar to females and infants.” Mattson believed that herbal remedies were superior to mainstream medical science. He wrote: “I am satisfied … that an individual who is wholly ignorant of the subject (of anatomy), but acquainted at the same time with the properties and uses of innocent vegetable remedies, will be more successful in the cure of disease, than the educated physician with his array of poisons… (vol. 1, p. 4)
Herbal healer Angeline Miller relied on Morris Mattson’s 1841 “American Vegetable Practice,” which included color plates of many plants, such as these poplars. Pulverized poplar bark was the principal ingredient in Miller’s recipe for spiced bitters. OBSERVER COURTESY PHOTO
Angeline was one of many people in the U.S. interested in alternative medicine in the antebellum period. An array of unscientific practices, including herbal medicine, homeopathy and water cures, gained popularity during this time. The science of medicine was in transition in the nineteenth century. In the first half of the century, most people in Europe and the U.S., even medical professionals, believed in
the miasma theory of disease. This was the idea that rotting matter produced foul-smelling air, which then caused people nearby to become sick. European scientists gathered more evidence for germ theory over the latter part of the 1800s, but germ theory was not fully accepted until the very end of the century. Thus, throughout most of the nineteenth see MILLER page 4
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century, medicine was risky. People did not know how diseases spread. Unsanitary practices contributed to high rates of infection, as well as massive infant and maternal mortality. Sickness or injury very often meant death. The disease and the treatment could both be fatal. Laypeople heard about advances in the world of medicine, but these seemed far removed from their own lives. What good were these discoveries if medical care remained scary and unsafe? Following this line of thought, Angeline and many others were attracted to herbal cures. The long history of use attached to certain plants seemed more trustworthy than new-fangled medical treat-
They considered scientific medical practices dangerous, even deadly, and touted herbal remedies and other alternative medicine as gentler and timetested by tradition. ments. Herbal cures were also seen as gentle — “innocent,” to use Mattson’s term — compared to mainstream medicine; that is, they did not kill people. What was Angeline’s herbal medicine actually like? In her document “Childhood Memories of Maplehill,” Laura (Parker) Meredith (1895-1989), Angeline’s granddaughter, recalled two of her mother’s herbal cures handed down by Laura’s grandmother (p. 17): “Mom took good care of us. We were brought up on spice[d] bitters and composition tea — recipes from (Angeline’s) herb book. Whatever ailed us, we were given one or the other — the spice[d] bitters tasty and cold, the composition tea hot and searing.” Herbal remedies were designed to be palatable. Mattson’s recipe for spiced bitters, for example, called for pulverized poplar bark and sugar, with smaller amounts of goldenseal, ginger, prickly ash bark, balmony and cayenne. The resultant compound, with sugar as its second main ingredient, was undoubtedly sweet — “tasty” and enjoyable, as Laura Parker Meredith said. People in the mid-1800s who faced a choice between a possibly deadly doctor’s visit or a spicy homemade tea worried much less when they chose the tea. They also believed more easily that something delicious would help them as opposed to something painful. Angeline’s medicine was adver-
tised as effective for many unrelated complaints. Mattson described spiced bitters as “an excellent remedy in jaundice, dyspepsia, worms, flatulency, piles (hemorrhoids), headach(e), giddiness, pains in the stomach and bowels, diarrhea, gravelly complaints (bladder stones), strangury (slow and painful urination), gonorrhea, fluor albus (leucorrhea), heartburn, rickets, mercurial salivation (excessive saliva caused by ingestion of mercury), consumption (tuberculosis), and the whole train of chronic diseases” (vol. I, p. 307). Today we might laugh at the thought of a single medicine curing everything from farts to tuberculosis. However, 175 years ago, people may have been reassured by this promise. The fact that spiced bitters addressed so many common ailments also implied that it could be used frequently without harm. When compounds were presented as cure-alls, the public read this as a sign of the remedies’ goodness and healthiness. Angeline practiced herbal medicine in a period when citizens rebelled against the medical establishment. They considered scientific medical practices dangerous, even deadly, and touted herbal remedies and other alternative medicine as gentler and time-tested by tradition. Nor have these beliefs diminished over time. In fact, today’s alternative medicine practitioners share much the same mindset as Angeline Miller did over 150 years earlier. Learn more about Angeline Miller and her husband Elisha Jr. in my next article, where I explore their interests in spirits and seances.
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Lake Iroquois Ice Out contest re-opens for new year
Last year it was March 27, at 1:41 p.m. to be exact. That’s when the ice on Lake Iroquois gave way for the season. This year, the Lake Iroquois Association is renewing its Ice Out Challenge for a second year, inviting people to buy $1 tickets for a chance to guess when the ice will break this spring. The winner will win half of the ticket sale profits. The remaining profits will go toward expanding the summer greeter program at the lake, which educates boaters about best practices to prevent the spread of invasive aquatic species. “With boating traffic on the lake growing, the need to have greeters on duty for more hours has become necessary,” Lake Iroquois Association President Shannon Kelly said. Ice Out tickets are available until March 1 at www.lakeiroquios.org/news/ice-out-challenge. A pallet will be placed on the ice with a cinderblock on top, connected by a line to a clock on shore. When the pallet and cinderblock sinks, the line will pull the clock stopped, marking the ice out time. The contestant with the closest guess will win the cash prize. To help with your guess, check out the record of ice out dates dating back to 1987 at www.lakeiroquois.org/enjoying/ ice-out-dates.
Last year’s ice out on Lake Iroquois occurred March 27. OBSERVER FILE PHOTO
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BY SEN. GINNY LYONS AND REP. ANN PUGH
One of the greatest challenges to Vermont’s future is our state’s shrinking labor force, which hit an alarming 30-year low last April. Across the country and here in Vermont, women have left the workforce at much higher rates than men, which is sadly not surprising, given that women have faced inequities in the workplace for decades. For many working women, particularly working moms, an already precarious juggling act became impossible with the added stresses of Covid-19. The good news is that Vermont is investing in a workforce development solution essential to ensuring that all parents can fully participate in the workforce: equitable access to high-quality, affordable child care. It was heartening to have near-unanimous support from our colleagues during the 2021 legislative session for H.171, the child care bill we championed and diligently worked on in our respective committees. Gov. Scott signed this landmark legislation into law. The law sets Vermont on a path to achieve equitable access for all families needing high-quality, affordable child care. For several years, we have
worked together to address Vermont’s child care crisis. But the pandemic showed us gaps in the system and the cost of not getting this right. Even before Covid, three out of five of Vermont’s youngest children didn’t have access to the child care they needed; families lucky enough to find it were spending up to 30 percent of their household income on child care; and early childhood educators doing this essential work were not earning a livable wage. One in four women who became unemployed during the pandemic said it was because of child care. Child care workers, most of whom are women, have been notoriously underpaid for decades. As a result, there is an increasingly short supply of these professionals. We often talk about the expense of child care but we also need to understand that these child care experts are paid tens of thousands of dollars less than their peers in other similarly skilled professions. That’s unconscionable. As college professors, we taught many young women studying early education. They were excited to become professionals — trained to care for children from birth to age 5, to help kids build emotional, social and cognitive skills necessary for future success.
Today we hear from families that child care providers are leaving their jobs. Pay for child care workers is simply too low — it is not a livable wage. This contributes to child care workers leaving the workforce and the workforce crisis we face today. Solving the child care crisis is crucial to supporting women in the workforce, which is something we have been focused on since long before Covid. The solution is right in front of us. We need a child care system that is accessible, affordable, high-quality, equitable and accountable. In 2022, we must continue on the path toward a strong and stable child care system established by H.171, and we need to come together to respond to Vermont’s urgent child care workforce crisis. We understand that these priorities will require significant investment. We also know both from research and lived experience that this is one of the wisest investments we can make for Vermont’s children, families, recovery and economy. Sen. Virginia “Ginny” Lyons, D-Chittenden, of Williston, is chair of the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare. State Rep. Ann Pugh, D-South Burlington, is chair of the House Committee on Human Services.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR This land is my land It is that time of year to remind people to respect property owners’ private property. There are new people moving to Williston, and I am already telling people to stay off my family’s property. Last summer I placed lots of new “No Trespassing” signs, but people
seem to think it doesn’t mean them. To the cross country skiers, snowshoers, dog-walkers, bikers and walkers: If the sign says “No Trespassing,” stay off it. That is what the Catamount Community Forest is for. It is a huge liability for property owners to have people on their property. Ours was once
farmland, there are barbed wire fences, ponds and other hazards. And this isn’t just about my family’s land but any open/ farm land or golf course. Even if you don’t see any signs, it is best to ask permission from the landowner before you go on their property. David Martel Williston
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NEW YEAR, The Dorothy Alling Memorial Library is open for in-person service at the following hours: • Monday/Wednesday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. • Tuesday/Thursday/ Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. • Saturday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
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YOUTH PROGRAMS Children fifth grade and up may use the library unattended, while fourth grade and younger must be supervised by a person over 16 years of age. Registration is required for all youth events. Register online at www. damlvt.org or by calling 8784918. PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Monday indoor story times are postponed until further notice. TEEN NIGHT: BULLET JOURNALING Monday, Jan. 10, 5-6 p.m. Grades 7 and up. Get some ideas and practice with a bullet journal for the new year. OUTDOOR STORY TIME Tuesdays, Jan. 11 and 18, 1010:30 a.m. Bundle up and join Danielle on the Green for stories, rhymes and songs. AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM: DUKE’S STORY Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2-3 p.m. All ages. Meet the Williston Police Department’s Comfort K-9, Duke, and his handler, Officer Cohen. Hear a reading of “K9 Duke: Comfort Dog.”
PRESCHOOL MUSIC Thursday music with Linda Bassick is postponed until further notice. LEGO TIME Thursday, Jan. 13, 3-4 p.m. Grades K-4. Build with the library’s LEGO collection. HOMESCHOOL MEETUP Tuesday, Jan. 18, 1-3 p.m. Gather with other homeschool families in the area. AFTER-SCHOOL STEAM FUN Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2-3 p.m. Grades 3 and up. Enjoy a handson science activity.
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PROGRAMS FOR ADULTS Online adult programs are held via Zoom. Email programs@damlvt.org or call 8784918 to receive an invitation, unless otherwise specified. VIRTUAL CRAFTERNOON: HEMP BRACELETS Register at www.damlvt.org by Jan. 15 to receive a kit with materials and a YouTube link with step-by-step instructions. ADULT WINTER ONLINE READING CHALLENGE Register at www.damlvt. beanstack.com for our genre-oriented challenge and earn virtual chances to win prizes. Runs through March 25. ONLINE GUIDED MEDITATION Fridays in January, 12-12:30 p.m. Maryellen Crangle leads a short Zoom meditation. MAH-JONGG Cancelled for January. JIGSAW PUZZLE SWAP WEEK Jan. 10-15. Take home a puzzle, leave a puzzle and register to win a new puzzle designed by a Vermont artist. FROM THE PARLOR TO THE POLLING PLACE Postponed until further notice. CURRENT EVENTS DISCUSSION Wednesday, Jan. 12, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Meet online to discuss newsworthy topics. see LIBRARY page 9
Restoring self; restoring community
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Sangha Studio, located in the Kismet Building on Blair Park Road, raised $795 for the Williston Community Justice Center through a benefit class called Restorative Yoga for Restorative Jus-
tice, led by Kaleigh Mulpeter. The proceeds will advance restorative justice work in Williston. “The mission and values of the Community Justice Center align deeply with the mission
and values of Sangha Studio, specifically from the lens of inclusivity, connection and collective care,” said Sangha Studio Williston Site Director Devon Penny. “We look forward to con-
tinued collaboration with the CJC to bring awareness to the importance of restorative justice work and how, together, we can create impact in the community through our shared focus on collective care.”
Community Justice Center Executive Director Cristalee McSweeney added: “Both Sangha and the WCJC believe that when we take care of ourselves, we can better show up for others. Yoga is one way to do so.”
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Kaleigh Mulpeter (left) of Sangha Studio and Cristalee McSweeney, executive director of the Williston Community Justice Center, collaborated on a restorative justice fundraising yoga class that netted nearly $800 for restorative justice work in the community. OBSERVER CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
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OBITUARIES Harold E. Harvey (Buddy) died peacefully on December 24th with his daughter by his side and in the caring hands of the Green Mountain Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center in Colchester, VT. Ha rold wa s bor n Ju ly 9, 1941 to George H. Harvey Sr and Anna (Farr) Harvey in Richmond, VT. He graduated from Richmond High School and the University of Vermont. After his four children were born, he graduated from UVM, working nights while attending day classes. He was proud to be a computer programmer and worked for IBM for 25 years until his retirement. Ha rold wa s act ive w it h t he Wil-
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with granddaughters Heather Blanchette, Amy Alexander and Sarah Blindow, grandsons Charlie Epinette and Danny Epinette; and stepgrandson Anthony Mitchell. He is also survived by his sister Claire Streeter (John) of Windham, ME, brothers Seward Harvey (Ida) of Richmond and Philip Harvey (Leta Rae) of Bushnell, FL, and sister-in-law Mary Harvey of Richmond and many nieces and nephews. He is also survived by his former wife and mother of his children, Bea Harvey of Williston, and former wife Jeanette Harvey of Bellows Falls. In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by his brothers George Harvey, Sr, and James Harvey and his sisters Rebecca Boiney and Alice Robertson, stepg randson Mark Marland Jr and stepdaughter Jennifer Cermola. His family would like to thank Green Mountain Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center for the care and support they provided our father over the past few years. A special thank you to Bea Harvey who remained a constant presence in his life and went above and beyond to provide comfort, care and support to our father. Funeral services were held December 31 at 11:00 AM at Corbin and Palmer Funeral Home, 9 Pleasant Street in Essex Junction. A Celebration of Life is planned to be held in the spring of 2022. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association of Vermont, 75 Talcott Rd, Suite 40, Williston VT 05495, or the Humane Society of Chittenden County, 142 Kindness Court, South Burlington VT, 05403.
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Lawmakers kick off session with a quick trip to Statehouse BY SARAH MEARHOFF VTDigger The energy was congenial as members of the Vermont House exchanged hugs, handshakes and back slaps Tuesday on the first day of the legislative session. For many, it was their first day in the Statehouse since 2020. But the lawmakers left as quickly as they came, gaveling in for just a 45-minute floor session before returning to their cars and heading home to their computer screens. Members of the Vermont Senate, with only a few exceptions, didn’t trek to Montpelier in the first place, tuning into their first day of legislative activity remotely at 10 a.m. Until last week, the plan had been for
lawmakers to hold the 2022 legislative session in person after a session and a half of remote legislating, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Legislators heard testimony from medical experts and determined a set of rules to abide by in the Statehouse — vaccine and testing requirements, mandatory face masks and social distancing — in hopes of safely convening in person. But on Dec. 28 they reversed course, citing concerns over the rapidly spreading and highly contagious Omicron variant. The Senate had the authority to convene remotely from the start, piggybacking off of last year’s rules, which ran through the start of the 2022 session. The House, on the other hand, required a quorum to vote on a resolution allowing for remote work
Virtual MLK Jr. Day observance planned for Jan. 17 The public is invited to join a virtual observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 17 at 7:30 a.m. A joint effort of the Williston-Richmond Rotary Club and the Williston Racial Equity Partnership, the event will feature remarks from a variety of community members, including Debbie Ingram of Vermont Interfaith Action, Cristalee McSweeney of the Williston Community Justice Center, Pastor Paul Eyer of the Williston Federated Church and Dennis Francis of the Williston Racial Equity Partnership. Additional speakers are to be announced. “Everyone in Williston is welcome to attend as we recognize the importance of Dr King’s leadership in the struggle for a more just, compassionate and inclusive society and recommit ourselves to that struggle today,” said Ingram. To join the event, use the following Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom. us/j/82624754943
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“While we are not feeling safe to be here in this building, our kids and our teachers are in theirs. And we have some very important issues around education — finance, teacher pensions — that we need to take up and we should be doing that in person.” Off the floor, Sibilia added that legislating remotely is just not the same, and that “there are 100 conversations that you will have a day in this building, keeping you apprised, so that you can keep your constituents apprised.” She said it’s difficult to stay in the loop from home, especially if you’re not a member of the majority party. A number of members said that for the Legislature to decide to work remotely is an insult to frontline workers who have had to show up to work throughout the entirety of the pandemic. Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint, D-Windham, told VTDigger that she is “sympathetic, absolutely, to (those) feelings,” but that the Statehouse is a different kind of workplace: Lawmakers come to Montpelier from every corner of the state, and if there’s an outbreak, they could take the virus home to their communities. “Unfortunately, in politics, optics are always part of the conversation, but they cannot drive the work that you do,” Balint said. “So the goal is for us to be back in the building, as soon as we can safely do that.” When lawmakers might return to Montpelier for good is unclear. Legislative leaders say they will settle on a plan in the next two weeks, before the current remote work rules expire. The Joint Rules Committee is set to discuss it on Thursday afternoon.
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Director Sarah Reeves said. “It’s expensive and cumbersome, and it’s dependent on transportation … We want to have water available as needed rather than waiting for Mother Nature or a trucking company to be able to help us out.” The district will pay for the extension and be responsible for any breaks or repairs, according to Williston Public Works Director Bruce Hoar. “It will technically be the Town of Williston’s line but, through an agreement, they’ll be responsible for it,” Hoar said. In addition to bringing in a reliable water source, the district has plans to build a second access road to the compost facility to separate individuals dropping off food scraps from commercial haulers bringing in truckloads of material. An application for the project is on the Development Review Board’s Feb. 8 agenda. “We want to pull vehicles off Redmond Road a bit sooner and make traffic through the site less confusing,” Reeves said. The other main use for the water line will be to serve a proposed new
office building planned for a vacant parcel south of the compost center. “We have outgrown our administrative office,” said Reeves. “It is maxed out as far as how many people can work in that lo-
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cation. The time has come for us to have a new, modern facility.” An application for the 10,000-square-foot building and parking lot is on the Development Review Board’s Jan. 11 agenda. Further into the future, CSWD administrators have plans to site a new recycling center next to the proposed administrative office building. The current recycling center — known as the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) on Ave-
nue C — is owned by CSWD and operated by Casella Waste Systems. According to Reeves, it is the only recycling processing center of its size in the country that still relies on hand sorting. A new center on Redmond Road would automate the process. “People are touching every single bottle and can, and having to sort them. It’s highly inefficient,” Reeves said of the existing facility. “It’s time to get machinery and technology to do the sorting and have people doing quality control and making sure the machines are doing their job.” The Avenue C facility is currently processing twice the amount of material it was built to handle, she said. CSWD administrators are planning to propose the new recycling center to its board of directors for approval as a first step. “This would be critical infrastructure that is really needed in Vermont … and we’re really excited about the possibility of being able to leverage some of the federal infrastructure dollars that were just approved this past year to be able to help with the construction and equipment,” Reeves said.
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public input opportunities in the coming weeks, Heymann said. There will be additional public input opportunities as the draft regulations are advanced to the Planning Commission and the Selectboard later this year. The existing rules limit residential density to two units per acre. About 40 percent of the homes in the village have non-conforming, multi-tenant housing that predates the 1980s-era regulations. The new code would do away with density limits and instead adopt a “form-based” approach that prescribes the way buildings look — with allowances for certain roofing, siding and fencing materials, for example — and ensure they are in scale with their surroundings. “The town’s goal is to encourage residential vibrancy,” Heymann said. “People love the village, they love the feel of it. Yet our development standards are discouraging the kind of density that gives the village its character.” The new regulations would
also loosen restrictions on the type and size of businesses allowed in the village in favor of rules about compatibility within the neighborhood — such as the way trash is managed and screening parking lots to prevent headlight glare. The current regulations restrict businesses in the village to less than to 4,000 square feet (2,500 square feet on any one floor) and prohibit small-scale food service operations, allowing only “full-service” restaurants and bed-and-breakfasts, Heymann said. “We field calls from entrepreneurs all the time: ‘Hey I want to put this use in this space,’ and it makes total sense but it’s not allowed in the village,” she said. “That’s why we’re working on the village bylaw amendment … It doesn’t really matter what happens inside the building, so long as the nuisances and outdoor spaces are appropriately managed for the village.” The Historic and Architectural Advisory Committee is recommending the creation of a town fund to help property owners in the village pay for restoring homes to the new standards.
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