GREENSBORO — The Greensboro Planning Commission (GPC) will launch the next Town Plan cycle, starting with a survey of community members, to help determine town priorities. The GPC is finalizing the questions on the survey which will be going out to all Greensboro residents and taxpayers in August. 24. The survey will be able to be taken on line or by paper copy.
Every seven years or so, every Vermont town must determine what community members want to see as their town’s future. Based on this updated vision, planning commissions write or amend a town plan with suitable goals, objectives and priorities which is then submitted to the select board for adoption. After adoption, the next step is to strategize how to meet these goals. The planning commissions must then review, evaluate and possibly amend existing zoning bylaws to align with the new town plan goals and with any new state legislative statutes.
It’s an ongoing cycle: assess; plan; implement and evaluate.
The work that the GPC has been doing recently is based on the 2019 Town Plan, available on the town website. Miscellaneous bylaw amendments and Shoreland Protection bylaw amendments were presented to the public at an October 2023 Planning Commission Public Hearing. Subsequent fine tuning to these was made based on feedback from the public, various state agencies and our local development review board.
In March 2024, the bylaw amendments were delivered to the select board for their review. The miscellaneous proposed bylaws will be presented in a select board public hearing on July 25. The Shoreland Protection District proposed amendments remain under select board consideration and may be presented at a later select board public hearing. The deadline for the Town’s action on these bylaw updates is October 17, 2024.
