A charter change proposal that impacts tenants and landlords passed on Town Meeting Day. Those in support of the measure view it as a way to prevent tenants from being unfairly removed from their housing units, while those against consider it a hindrance to landlords who want to evict unsavory renters.
Item 5 on Burlington s Town Meeting Day ballot asked voters if the city s charter should be amended to include protections from evictions that don t meet the standards of just cause. Vermont statutes allow landlords to evict tenants without cause, which occurs in about 20% of filed eviction cases, according to housing discrimination advocates who pulled from Vermont Legal Aid s 2019 report on eviction. Voters approved the measure
STOWE, Vt. – Bob Poole noticed the traffic first.
Poole and his wife bought a house on Stowe s Bull Moose Ridge Road in 2014 because of the solitude. Poole, a former executive editor of National Geographic magazine, spent four decades working in the Washington, D.C., area. Vermont was his Nirvana. My wife and I both loved it here, Poole said. We started looking around. We found this place and made plans to sell everything in Virginia and move here. The big attraction was the quiet.
One example: Every spring the woodcocks would put on a dramatic show of mating rituals just across the narrow dirt road from Poole s home. On a busy day, three or four cars might pass by. There are only nine houses on the private road, marked by a custom wooden sign.
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