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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The Valley Reporter, Housing series digs into state-level remedies: Describes the Vermont Zoning Atlas as a useful visual aid in a presentation explaining the state’s lack of available housing.
HousingForward Virginia Blog, Zoning Atlases Across the Map: Vermont: Vermont Zoning Atlas project director Yoshi Bird is interviewed by the team behind the Virginia Zoning Atlas—a zoning atlas crossover!
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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Interim Project Director: Yoshi Bird
Zoning Code Analysts: Michael Arnold, Sean Rogers, Magali Stowell-Aleman, Zoe Sreden, Grace Sokolow, Jake Gilbert, Mohsen Ghasemizade, Sam Powers, Chris Donovan, Jack Reed, Prianka Bhattacharjee, Emma Eash, Tucker Schulz, Luke Slomba, David White, Ron Dendas, Jackson LaSarso, Patrick Rochford, Dakota Walker
Geospatial Analysts: Megan Sutor, Olivia Ting, Parisa Suchdev, Zachary Winigrad, Anouschka Pschorr, Luke Slomba
Community champions: Kendall Fortney, Emily Sun, William Hegman, Colin Dowey
Steering Committee: Leslie Black-Plumeau, Catherine Dimitruk, Chris Cochran, Jacob Hemmerick, Taylor Newton, Seth Leonard, Joshua Plaksa, Erik Engstrom, John Adams, Jessica Hyman, Charlie Baker
Special thanks to: Vermont Housing Finance Agency, Gund Institute for the Environment, Anonymous donor, State of Vermont, Vermont Community Foundation