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Volume 53 Number 13
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March 28, 2024
Superintendent Sanchez announces resignation Will stay on until end of school year COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
Champlain Valley School District Superintendent Rene Sanchez will resign at the end of the school year after three years as head of the district. The announcement came at the end of the school board’s March 19 meeting, where board members unanimously accepted his resignation. Sanchez, in a letter to staff
and faculty, called his resignation “a bittersweet announcement.” He thanked district employees and said the last three years with the district’s five towns “will always hold a special place in my heart.” “These are challenging times across the state for public education and I’m very proud for the See SANCHEZ on page 12
Planning commission explores zoning change to ensure affordability
Maple Open House Families come out to Shelburne Farms on Sunday to enjoy all things maple as part of the statewide Vermont Maple Open House Weekend. Tapping trees, collecting fresh sap and tasting sugar-on-snow are always popular activities. Shelburne Farms staff Perry Willett and Dianne Laberge served up the sugar-on-snow. Farm educator Elijah Hines guided families in the search for dripping sap.
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Amid Shelburne’s massive bylaw overhaul, the planning commission is exploring what inclusionary zoning requirements could look like for the town. Rod Francis and Brandy Saxton, consultants with PlaceSense hired by the town, said that inclusionary zoning is a concept that addresses regulatory practices in combination with market forces that can lead to overwhelmingly homogenous neighborhoods that
are both expensive and exclude people from low-income households. “The idea is that you make the development of new residential units responsible for the provision of some number of affordable dwelling units in various forms,” Francis said. “There are plenty of examples, moderately successful in the towns surrounding Shelburne. They are much more commonplace in other parts of the country.” See ZONING on page 5
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