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Volume 52 Number 1
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Shelburne residents prepare Crombach development appeal LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
A controversial development proposed by Shelburne chiropractors Stephen Brandon and Shelley Crombach received long-awaited approval from that town’s development review board in November which was set to end a nearly two-year-long battle against the project. But residents this week announced they are working with an attorney to file an appeal to the state’s environmental court to block the development, according to nearby homeowner Pete Serisky.
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The development project proposes a mixed-use building on Shelburne Road with approximately 4,000 square feet of commercial space on its first floor and a total of eight residential units on the second and third floors. Also proposed are two multi-family buildings with 24 residential units on three floors and a senior housing building with 22 units on three floors — bringing the total to 78 residential units and commercial space to be built over a three-year period. The developer’s original proposal, submitted in July 2021, See APPEAL on page 13
Bus agency poised to bring back fares Transit line needs to stabilize funding COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
Bus fares for Green Mountain Transit lines may return this year, potentially ending a pandemic precaution and providing a revenue source to an agency that for years has been searching for alternative ways to fund its operations more equitably. As part of the transit agency’s fiscal year 2024 budget, fares would be restarted on all the bus lines throughout the county. Green Mountain Transit will hold a public meeting Jan. 10 and will consider approving the final budget Jan. 17. While yet to be approved,
the prospect of fare collection is renewing questions of how Green Mountain Transit — and transit bus systems throughout the state — should be funded, and whether the current system equitably distributes the costs associated with keeping a county-wide bus system. “There’s a structural issue with how we fund transit in Vermont,” said Jon Moore, the agency’s acting general manager. “Number one, there’s just an over-reliance on the property tax for everything, and number two, we’re providing a regional service which is funded See BUS FARES on page 12
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Top: Bob Kinzel, a longtime friend of Marshall Webb, eulogizes his friend at a celebration of life at the Breeding Barn at Shelburne Farms in October. Above: From left, Mary Donnelly, Rev. Carole Carlson and Rev. Marjorie MacNeill, all of Shelburne, rally for the passage of Prop 5, the Vermont Reproductive Liberty amendment to the Vermont Constitution in front of the Pierson Library. More year in review photos start on page 8.