ZONING ORDINANCE RE-WRITE COMMITTEE
2004

Staff Contact:
Chris Violette, Zoning Administrator

Planning & Zoning Department
Phone - 802-479-2595
Fax - 802-479-9332
email: cviolette@barretown.org

Regularly scheduled meetings and hearings:
First Wednesday of every month
at the
                           Municipal Office Building                              

The Zoning Ordinance Re-write Committee is comprised of seven people appointed by the Selectboard to serve four-year terms. They come from different backgrounds and provide input from their various areas of expertise and all are volunteers. The Zoning Re-write Committee consists of two members of the Planning Comission and five citizens at large.

The Zoning Ordinance Re-write Committee is responsble for re-writing the Barre Town Zoning Ordinance that was first writtenin 1966. The Town staff working on this progject include the Town Manager, Zoning Administrator, and Management Intern. The town staff are responsbile for working with Committee members to review existing policies, establish a vision for the future, look at other towns' ordinances, incorporate Town Plan suggestions, participate in public hearings with the Planning Commission and Selectboard, and finally produce a zoning ordinance that is clear, concise, and consistent with common development practices now and for the future.

 The Zoning Ordinance Re-write Committee meets the first Wednesday of every month at 7;00 p.m. in Conference Room #3 in the Municipal Building in Lower Websterville. All meetings and hearings held by this committee are open to the public.