2024 - What's Ahead for the Planning Commission?

Now that the Town Plan has been adopted by the Selectboard the PC is starting 2024 with an invigorated mission. The "Getting It Done" chapter outlines goals and priorities for 2024 and beyond and the PC is using that as a guide for creating a Work Plan for the year. The PC hopes to work with the Selectboard, other Town committees, and staff, to accomplish many of the Town Plan goals in a transparent and timely way.

The first item on the PC’s list for 2024 is to begin work to update parts of the Town’s land use regulations (“zoning”). The Jericho Planning Office received a Bylaw Modernization Grant from the Vermont Department of Housing and Community Development to align the zoning with the new Town Plan. The Town Planner and PC will be working with a consultant to review and update zoning items such as dimensional requirements, allowable uses, street standards, and the development review process. The focus will be the Village Center zoning district and the Character Based Zoning overlay for Riverside. The goal of these zoning updates is to support a pedestrian-oriented development pattern that increases housing choice, affordability, and opportunity in areas planned in accordance with Vermont's smart growth principles (24 VSA 2791). Updates will be guided by recommendations from the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development's publication Enabling Better Places: A Zoning Guide for Vermont Neighborhoods. Visit the 2024 Village Center Zoning Update project page to learn more about this work.

Questions? Comments? Please share your thoughts with Linda Blasch, Town Planner - lblasch@jerichovt.gov