Towards the end of the 2013 legislative session, the Vermont House and Senate unceremoniously passed H. 226, advancing potentially significant changes to Vermont’s brownfield clean-up Read more »
Land Use
Governor’s Commission on Energy Generation Siting: Are Changes on the Horizon?
On October 2, 2012, Governor Shumlin signed Executive Order 10-12, convening a 5 member energy-siting commission whose appointees were subsequently selected by the Commissioner of the Department of Read more »
Geoff Hand and Rebecca Boucher to Speak at Planning Sustainable Communities Conference
SRH Law attorneys Geoff Hand and Rebecca Boucher will present at Vermont Legal Aid's "Planning Sustainable Communities for All" on Friday, April 13, 2012. Hand and Boucher will speak at the Land Use Read more »
Legislative Report on Vermont’s Environmental Permitting – Potential for Dissolution of Environmental Court and Natural Resources Board
For the past year, at the direction of Governor Shumlin and with the support of the General Assembly, the Natural Resources Board (NRB) and the Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) have been engaged in Read more »
Brownfield Redevelopment Revitalizes Randolph with Affordable Housing
Salisbury Square, located in Randolph, Vermont, held its ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday for completion of Phase I of the development project. Background: Among the brownfield redevelopment Read more »
DPS releases Vermont Draft Energy Plan
The Vermont Department of Public Service (DPS) released a draft of the new 2011 Comprehensive Energy Plan (CEP) earlier this week. By statute, the Comprehensive Energy Plan must be updated every five Read more »
Shumlin Administration Looks at Improving Environmental Permitting Process in Vermont
Earlier this month the Shumlin Administration announced that it was beginning to evaluate the environmental permitting process in Vermont and was looking for public comments on ways to improve the Read more »
SRH Law Client Wins Act 250 Case at Vermont Supreme Court
The Town of Royalton Planning Commission, a SRH Law client, recently prevailed at the Vermont Supreme Court in a long-contested state land-use matter concerning a proposal by developer Times and Read more »
Act 250 Criteria: Not Applicable? Not Your Decision, Environmental Court Says
In a Jurisdictional Opinion issued earlier this year, the Vermont Environmental Court made clear that Act 250 applicants do not have the independent authority to determine which criteria might not Read more »
