VERMONT Zoning Atlas
The Vermont Zoning Atlas is a cross-sector, multidisciplinary collaboration convening the Vermont State Agency of Commerce and Community Development, Department of Housing and Community Development, the Vermont Association of Planning and Development Agencies, the Vermont Center for Geographic Information, the Vermont Housing Finance Agency, the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Fair Housing Project, the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition, and UVM’s Open Source Program Office, with the support of the University of Vermont Gund Institute for Environment and Middlebury College Geography Department.
A team of community members, as well as students from Middlebury College and the University of Vermont, are working together with the 11 regional planning commissions of VAPDA to develop a state-wide Zoning Atlas that will encompass all of Vermont’s 237 towns, 10 cities, 5 unincorporated areas, and 4 gores.The team plans to integrate the results both into the Vermont Planning Atlas interface and the National Zoning Atlas.
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Town Meeting TV, Complex Systems and Homelessness with Yoshi Bird: Project Director, Yoshi Bird, discusses the processes and motivation behind the creation of the Vermont Zoning Atlas—to democratize how we understand land use regulations.
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Vermont Association of Planning & Development Agencies (VADPA), site for association which convenes Vermont’s eleven Regional Planning Commissions (RPCs) who coordinate planning activities across the towns and cities in their respective catchment areas
The Vermont Open GeoPortal database, a warehouse of publicly-available GIS data managed by the state of Vermont
“30,000 to 40,000 more Vermont homes needed by 2030,” a January 2023 article by Leslie Black-Plumeau of the Vermont Housing Finance Agency (VHFA) addressing the level of need for affordable homes
HousingData.org, powered by VHFA, a one-stop repository of data and statistics about Vermont’s communities that also features a Housing-Ready Toolbox and Renter FAQs
Zoning for Great Neighborhoods, training and documentation resources for municipalities to support local bylaw reform for diverse, equitable communities
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Director: TBD
Project Manager: Yoshi Bird
Zoning Analysis Lead: Emily Sun
Zoning Code Analysts: Magali Stowell Alemán, Zoe Sreden
Geospatial Lead: Colin Dowey
Geospatial Analysts: Michael Arnold, Murphy Peisel, Sean Rogers, Frederick Senya, Erik Weis
Advisor: William Hegman