Supervisor Jeff Stoneman, a newcomer to the board since last fall’s elections and representative for the Beaverdam district where the project site is located, responded to concerns about the development’s impact on the county’s rural character by noting it was situated in an area slated for the such development according to per the county’s comprehensive plan.
“I know this project has brought out a lot of passion and a lot of emotion. And there’s a substantial number of our citizens that are in the Beaverdam district that would prefer that a project like this not come into our area,” Stoneman said. “It’s been brought up that we want to keep Hanover rural and that some of us ran on that on as a campaign. And I can’t think of a way that you can do that better than sticking to the comp plan, than placing the growth in areas that it’s designed to go.”
Key sentence is “And I can’t think of a way that you can do that better than sticking to the comp plan, than placing the growth in areas that it’s designed to go.”
If we want Montpelier to remain rural, let’s hold Jeff Stoneman and the other Planners/Supervisors to that statement.
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