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Haystack Crossing gets Act 250 permit, could break ground this fall
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Haystack Crossing, the largest proposed development in Hinesburg’s history, received Act 250 approval for its phase one on Aug. 27, almost a decade after the project was conceived. Hinesburg approved phase one of the development during a separate, local review process in 2022. Since then, the developers of Haystack Crossing, BlackRock Construction, have been waiting for the Act 250 approval to break ground. “This is huge,” Alex Weinhagen, Hinesburg’s director of planning and zoning, said. “There are still a lot of moving pieces with this project, but, for the developer, Act 250 approval was a major hurdle that is now cleared.” Haystack Crossing is a mixeduse development on a 76-acre plot west of Route 116 and just north of the village and Patrick Brook. Phase one of the project includes
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Town and library employees in Charlotte are one step closer to unionizing. The selectboard announced after an executive session Monday night that the Vermont Labor Relations Board will conduct a secret ballot election among 10 non-management town and library staffers later this month to determine whether they want to be represented by a union. In April, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 93 filed a petition with the Vermont Labor Relations Board looking to become the exclusive bargaining representative for a unit of 10 town and library employees — the town planner, the zoning administrator, the planning and zoning assistant, the assistant town clerk, the volunPHOTO BY ALEXANDRA LAZAR
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