Quick reminder that many of the cool places/cooling facilities are run by volunteers and only open with cofactors like power outages. I won’t be opening the one I manage in Arlington today, for instance.

Wife met with a young legislator today and realized she’s closer in age to his mom than him. ☠️

So the pieces VT’s missing that now exist in Maine: 3 unit +1 ADU (up from 2023 2+1 ADU No owner occupancy (current municipal option) 5k SF lots (from 5 DU/acre no subdivision) 5 lot subdivision trigger (local discretion below 6)

Was pleased to welcome Lt. Gov. Rodgers and Senator Samuel Douglass to Bennington today. (And thank you to Ali for her work on workforce issues that brought this visit about)

Municipal officials love this kind of landowner because they reliably pay their property taxes on time and don’t face incentives to over-log the land right as they’re hitting retirement age.

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Regional Planning Commission meeting now happening in my dining room (due to sudden inclement weather)

The first 10 or so years of land records do not exist because the town was a full of British sympathizers and the sympathizer clerk buried the records somewhere, never to be found again.

Senate Banking markup for the housing megabill is starting shortly 👀 First housing markup in almost two decades, and we're including almost every bipartisan housing idea on the Hill in SB jurisdiction!

And so far VT only got a watered down study bill that got washed out by the fire marshals. VT legislators: let’s talk about some actual single stair and elevator reform.

Retrospective time compression hides it, but the fall of Rome took hundreds of years The otherwise-powerless dudes who kept the aqueducts going while fundamental institutions were ruined nonetheless kept clean water for millions of people for centuries. Even tho yes, Rome fell

"How can you focus on the aqueducts when the Republic itself is at stake" Idk man. I do what I can for the Republic, but in the meantime all I control is this aqueduct and a lot of people drink out of it every day. So, yeah

This is the place that drew my ancestors from rural peasantry in post-partition Belarussia, and allowed them to climb into the middle class in 2 generations.

RIP to Stu Hurd, the county’s preeminent public servant to his last days. benningtonbanner.com/local-news/tow…

Hurd was the town’s eighth town manager and its longest-serving one since Bennington adopted the form of government in 1969. buff.ly/C5HqRWM