r/montpelier

MONTPELIER, Vt. — The Design Review Committee voted 5-0 Monday night to approve exterior designs for two three-story affordable housing buildings proposed for Northfield Street, sending both applications to the Development Review Board with five design options that could reshape how the buildings look before a shovel breaks ground.

The vote caps a two-meeting review process that forced the applicant back to the drawing board on materials, rooflines, colors, and columns — and exposed anxieties about a hillside that a neighboring property owner said was once a dump.

It’s called clubhouse commons and it will be taking over the building where bent nails bistro was.

Does anyone know what's going on at U32?

MONTPELIER, Vt. — The City Council voted 4-1 Wednesday night to raise water and sewer rates by 4.3 percent effective July 1 — the latest in a decade-long series of annual hikes — as city engineers unveiled roughly $60 million in infrastructure projects and lawmakers clashed over whether the city is doing enough, too little, or simply everything wrong when it comes to its growing unhoused population.

The May 13th meeting ran past 10 p.m., touching a river hazard zoning amendment, a contested board reappointment, a two-hour infrastructure briefing that made plain the scale of what lies beneath Montpelier’s streets, and a procedural fight over homelessness that ended before it began.

It could be that Vermont is demographically very old but every time I go out to an event in Montpelier or elsewhere albeit sometimes Burlington it's usually always 40+ year olds. So am I missing something in Montpelier.

MONTPELIER, Vt. — The Montpelier-Roxbury school board approved its third-quarter financial report on May 6th with the district approximately $400,000 ahead of revenue projections, while also receiving its first multi-year financial forecast projecting roughly five percent annual growth in major budget categories through fiscal year 2028.