Robert Fireovid: Solving the housing crisis doesn't require destroying small towns
Destruction of small-town Vermont values and beauty is totally unnecessary. There are much better approaches for increasing the supply of affordable housing.
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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 e...