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Annual Meeting
Efficiency Vermont has provided grant funding to Regional Planning Commissions to support local energy committees and municipalities and to connect regional and local energy plan implementation efforts to Efficiency Vermont and Comprehensive Energy Plan goals. The funding will allow RPCs to provide technical assistance in the formation and development of local energy committees and to support the work of established local energy committees in specified areas tied to objectives for promoting energy efficiency and driving action. Supported activities of this grant funding include:
- Working to encourage the formation of new energy committees and enhancing the impact of existing energy committees
- Facilitating regional meetings and roundtables of energy committees
- Coordinating local Button Up and other events to promote thermal efficiency
- Use data resources such as the EAN Dashboard, and provide training to local energy groups
- Organize residential weatherization and home heating workshops
- Develop and distribute model zoning and subdivision regulations to support energy efficient building and design
- Organize regional workshops on electrical efficiency programs for commercial applications
- Distribute information on energy efficiency incentives
TRORC has scheduled the first regional energy committee meeting for
Thursday, September 5th at 6:30 pm at the Bethel Town Hall, 318 Main Street
TRORC will outline the new Efficiency Vermont grant, opportunities, projects and schedule. Please come with your calendars and ideas about how TRORC can help implement your town’s energy efficiency and conservation projects.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Please RSVP and direct questions to Dee Gish at [email protected] or 802-457-3188
A copy of the agenda can be found here: Executive Committee Agenda 9-11-19
View the Agenda here.
View the Complete Hearing Notice Here
Hearings for the Randolph Town Plan and the Regional Plan
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICES
TWO RIVERS-OTTAUQUECHEE REGIONAL COMMISSION
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 beginning at 6:30PM
Thompson Senior Center, 99 Senior Lane, Woodstock, VT
Notice is hereby given by the Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission of a Public Hearing for the purpose of hearing comments regarding review and approval of the Randolph Town Plan pursuant to 24 V.S.A. Section 4350. The Public Hearing will be held on Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 6:30 p.m., at the Thompson Senior Center, Woodstock, Vermont.
In addition, Per Title 24, Chapter 117, Section 4350 Regional Planning Commissions are required to “review and confirm the planning process of its member municipalities at least twice during an eight year period…. and shall so confirm when a member municipality:
1. is engaged in a continuing process that, within a reasonable time, will result in a plan which is consistent with the goals contained in Section 4302 of this Title; and
2. is maintaining its efforts to provide local funds for municipal and regional planning purposes.”
The Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission has deemed that the Town of Randolph has met these tests and shall be confirmed. A Public Hearing will be held immediately following the above mentioned hearing on Wednesday September 25, 2019 at the Thompson Senior Center, Woodstock, Vermont for the purpose of hearing comments regarding the review and confirmation of the planning efforts for this municipality.
Notice is hereby given by the Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission of a Public Hearing to be held for the purpose of hearing comments on the proposed amendments to the Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Plan. It will be held immediately following the above mentioned hearings on Wednesday September 25, 2019 at the Thompson Senior Center, Woodstock, Vermont. The Regional Plan covers all lands within the towns of Barnard, Bethel, Bradford, Braintree, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Chelsea, Corinth, Fairlee, Granville, Hancock, Hartford, Hartland, Newbury, Norwich, Pittsfield, Plymouth, Pomfret, Randolph, Rochester, Royalton, Sharon, Stockbridge, Strafford, Thetford, Topsham, Tunbridge, Vershire, West Fairlee, and Woodstock. A copy of the proposed amendments to the Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Plan are available for review at the Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission’s office during normal business hours and on the Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission’s website: www.trorc.org. Comments may be given in person at the hearing, or prior to the hearing by 4 p.m. on September 25, 2019 in writing to TRORC, 128 King Farm Road, Woodstock VT; or via email to [email protected].
Outlined below is a list of section headings of the Regional Plan chapters that have amendments
proposed:
1. Introduction
2. Definitions
3. Energy
4. Healthy Communities
5. Homes in the Region
6. Land Use
7. Transportation
8. Utilities, Facilities and Services
9. Natural Resources
10. Implementation Matrix
The meeting will be held in an accessible location. Requests for accommodations or modifications made will be honored to the maximum extent feasible, but it may not be possible to fulfill them.
Dated this August 23, 2019, Woodstock, Vermont
Gerald Fredrickson, Chair
Peter G. Gregory, AICP, Executive Director
A copy of the agenda can be found here: Executive Committee Agenda 10-9-19
This double-header training will first review (5:30-6:30) how local land use bodies (DRBs, Planning Commissions, ZBAs) should be making decisions, and then will follow up (6:45-7:45) with a review of the powers of subdivision bylaws and the useful concepts of density and conservation subdivisions.
For many rural areas with little development, the subdividing of land is much more of a land use issue than types of uses. Creation of roads, house placement, strange lot lines and shapes, and protection of natural areas can all better be addressed in subdivision bylaws than usually under zoning.
Light refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP here by 10/11
A copy of the agenda can be found here: TRORC Board Meeting Agenda 10-30-19
Public Hearing Notices October 30, 2019
Our region is participating in a housing study called Keys to the Valley. The Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission, Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission, and Southern Windsor County Regional Planning Commission are partnering to better understand the housing challenges facing our communities and to develop strategies for tackling those challenges. Please join us to learn more about the project and share your experiences with housing issues in the region.
Following this talk, Deanna Jones will present on the Homeshare Project. The Thompson Center is training to be a Homeshare satellite office. Homesharing can be a rewarding way to find housing and connect people who are living alone and willing to share a home as long as they meet the basic requirements. Come to this talk to learn more on the benefits of homesharing.
Learn some best practices on how to develop a Municipal Enhanced Energy Plan and how these adopted plans work in the Section 248 Process.
Register for this FREE webinar here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/0978dc4feb3b9918c5b9141539e44ee6
The next meeting of the TRORC Executive Committee will be on Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at the TRORC Offices in Woodstock, VT from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. Snacks will be available.
Tentative Meeting Agenda:
- Public Comments (5 minutes)
- Approval of the October 9, 2019 Minutes (enclosed)
- Acceptance of the October Financial Reports (enclosed)
- TRORC Investment Assistance update
- Regional Plan update status
- Executive Director FY 20 Goals discussion
- TRORC staffing short and long term
- Housing Study update, TRORF Strategic Planning, Regional Energy Coordinator proposal
- December 11, 2019 TRORC Board Meeting agenda review
- Executive Session (if needed)
- Other
If any person needs accommodation to participate in this meeting, please call Peter Gregory at 802-457-3188.
The next Executive Committee meeting will be January 8, 2020. The date, time, location and agenda will be posted on www.trorc.org