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Alarms raised over Senate housing bill
VOLUME 47, NO. 13
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Would nullify land use regs OK’d last year COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
South Burlington officials are raising alarms over S.100, the state senate’s omnibus bill that would tackle the growing housing crisis and would reverse land development regulations approved by the city last year by requiring denser housing allowances in certain areas. In a letter sent to legislators — the second one written by South Burlington brass this year — offi-
cials aired concerns over what they view as a curbing of their planning jurisdiction. The bill directly threatens land development regulations that the city approved in February last year, after years of vigorous debate, which effectively removed about 1,000 acres in the southeast quadrant from housing and other development. The overall intention of S.100, city council chair Helen Riehle See HOUSING BILL on page 12
Ho-Hum Motel to house the homeless COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
The South Burlington City Council last week gave final approval to use American Rescue Plan Funds for renovations to turn the Ho-Hum Motel on Williston Road into permanently affordable housing. The council’s approval last week finalizes an agreement that
was first made in September with the Champlain Housing Trust, which first purchased the property in 2020 to use as a COVID-19 quarantine space for people who are homeless, people arriving from out of state, and others who needed a place to isolate during the height of the pandemic. See MOTEL on page 16
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Lynn Vera and Chris Shaw pose with city clerk Donna Kinville as the polls closed on town meeting day. Kinville is retiring after more than 20 years serving as South Burlington’s city clerk.
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