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If we want to revitalize vacant village centers, encourage compact development, expand the availability of affordable housing and high-quality childcare, address the growing climate crisis, attract younger people to stay in and move to Vermont, and invest in workforce development, we need to look underground. Iâm not talking figuratively. The solution, quite literally, lies beneath our feet. As Secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources, I regularly ask town officials, regional planners, community leaders, business owners, and neighbors about the problems their communities are facing and ideas they have to fix these issues. People routinely call-out opportunities to revitalize their communities â opening a restaurant or community center, adding an accessory dwelling unit or starting a daycare facility â that have been stymied by a lack of wastewater treatment.
by Secretary Julie Moore, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources
If we want to revitalize vacant village centers, encourage compact development, expand the availability of affordable housing and high-quality childcare, address the growing climate crisis, attract younger people to stay in and move to Vermont, and invest in workforce development, we need to look underground. I’m not talking figuratively. The solution, quite literally, lies beneath our feet.
As Secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources, I regularly ask town officials, regional planners, community leaders, business owners, and neighbors about the problems their communities are facing and ideas they have to fix these issues. People routinely call-out opportunities to revitalize their communities – opening a restaurant or community center, adding an accessory dwelling unit or starting a daycare facility – that have been stymied by a lack of wastewater treatment.