Destruction of small-town Vermont values and beauty is totally unnecessary. There are much better approaches for increasing the supply of affordable housing.
De-growth can be a truly satisfying and rewarding future for everyone and everything in Vermont and around our planet. Let’s shrink into abundance for all.
If approved on Town Meeting Day, a resident petition could drastically reduce the sizes of the town’s highest-density zoning districts, putting a number of homes back into zones that are designed to promote lower density.
Smoking Gun? [Re Weinberger Knew of Burlington Police Chief s Anonymous Twitter Account, December 15]: There is one way to get to the bottom of the mayor s apparently false account of the actions he claims to have taken when he learned of the chief s online activities. If he took the chief s gun and badge, there would be documentation at the police department regarding the disposition of those sensitive items. In fact, there should be a record of the mayor turning them in within a day or so of him taking them from the chief. Such records would give great weight to the mayor s version of events. A lack of such records well, just sayin .