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Selectboard sets public hearing dates on O’Brien petition
‘Can’t get there from here’
LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
The Shelburne Selectboard will hold two community forums on the O’Brien Brothers’ petition to expand the town’s sewer service area to build 350 new homes. The selectboard had been working for the last two months in closed session to draft an agreement that outlines requirements and limitations on the land the
development company wants to develop. That document became public last week. “To understand the rationale, to debate the merits, I just thought, let’s do that in a completely different setting, where we can just focus on the O’Brien proposal and talk about it as a town,” selectSee PETITION on page 12
Settlement agreement reached for controversial development in Shelburne LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
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Developers have scaled back a controversial development after reaching a settlement with the neighbors who opposed the project. According to town manager Matt Lawless, the selectboard approved the agreement that allows for a total of 63 units — a maximum of 48 units in multifamily buildings, plus seven single family homes, eight for sale or
rental in the mixed-use commercial building that fronts Route 7. The original 115-unit development proposal by Shelburne chiropractors Stephen Brandon and Shelley Crombach first came before the town’s development review board in 2021, and quickly generated controversy among residents who argued that the development, and ultimately the zoning regulations in place, allowed too See SETTLEMENT on page 10
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