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The Hinesburg Selectboard held a public hearing last week for a controversial proposed zoning change and some residents are objecting to what they call an erosion of their property rights. Changes to the Rural Residential 1 district designation — an area that extends from the village growth area to the town’s northern border near Mt. Pritchard — have been in the works since 2021 and were revised and finalized by the planning commission in December last year. “The commission did some driving tours of the district, they did some walking tours of portions of the district and they talked about sort of the landforms that define different portions of the district, the pattern of development across the district, and a variety of other mapping resources that we have available to better understand where streams are and driveway density and those sorts of things,” said Alex Weinhagen, director of planning and zoning. He noted that the proposed changes are outlined in the town plan and correspond to work that the town began over a decade ago. The specific proposal makes changes to the regulations to better reflect different land forms, patterns of development and land use priorities, he said. See ZONING on page 16
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Bees swarmed Gerald Posner as he tinkered with their boxes. The spring weather gets them agitated, he said, because they have work to do. Posner’s bees live on the Hinesburg property of Full Moon Farm, where Vermont Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman grows a variety of fruits and vegetables. The bees have helped pollinate the crops
for the past four years. Posner and his wife, Karen, moved to Vermont from Connecticut during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and settled in South Burlington. “We brought our bees with us,” said Karen Posner, who also works in a chiropractor’s office. Posner operates their apiary, Swaying Daisies Honeybee Farm. Gerald Posner has cared for bees on and off since 1985, mostly as a hobby
before they arrived in Vermont. At farmers markets, his wife sells the Swaying Daisies honey, as well as honey infused with CBD, ginger or turmeric and baked goods sweetened with their honey. With the bees as his full-time work, Posner has battled the pollinators’ changing ecosystem as the climate warms. When See BEEKEEPER on page 2
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