{"id":3363,"date":"2023-05-22T17:19:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T21:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/norwichobserver.com\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2023-05-22T17:19:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T21:19:57","slug":"chair-and-vice-chair-of-the-planning-commission-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norwichobserver.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/22\/chair-and-vice-chair-of-the-planning-commission-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Chair and Vice Chair of the Planning Commission resign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Norwich Planning Commission is experiencing significant upheaval in membership. The latest: Planning Commission Chair Jacqueline Allen and Vice Chair Brian Loeb have resigned &#8220;effective immediately,&#8221; that is May 18. That brings the turnover in membership to four on the seven member commission since Town Meeting. In March, two members did not seek reappointment when their terms expired<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resignation letters are in the <a href=\"http:\/\/norwich.vt.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00-SB-packet-indexed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">amended Selectboard packet for the Board&#8217;s meeting on May 24<\/a> at pages 13 and 14. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Loeb&#8217;s email  noted the lack of an effective partnership in addressing critical issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>A strong partnership between the Selectboard and Planning Commission is essential to address the town&#8217;s deeply felt and well understood needs: housing opportunities for low and moderate income families, appropriate and affordable childcare, relief from the rising cost of living for seniors, and public infrastructure that is fit for a town with ample private resources. Such a partnership is absent today and has been for some time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The email from Ms. Allen wished &#8220;the Commission success in better positioning Norwich to diversify the housing stock, address our deteriorating infrastructure, and adapt to the demands of climate change already upon us.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In. addition, the Town has been essentially without a full-time Planning Director since September 2021.  Perhaps as a consequence, the Town has lagged on meeting the benchmarks listed in the Implementation Program at page 56 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/norwich.vt.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Norwich_Plan_2020-ADOPTED-lr-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2020 Town Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">*  *  *<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-blue-color has-medium-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background\">Contact me at norwichobserver[at]gmail.com <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Norwich Planning Commission is experiencing significant upheaval in membership. The latest: Planning Commission Chair Jacqueline Allen and Vice Chair Brian Loeb have resigned &#8220;effective immediately,&#8221; that is May 18. That brings the turnover in membership to four on the seven member commission since Town Meeting. In March, two members did not seek reappointment when their terms expired The resignation letters are in the amended Selectboard packet for the Board&#8217;s meeting on May 24 at pages 13 and 14. Mr. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/norwichobserver.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/22\/chair-and-vice-chair-of-the-planning-commission-resign\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Chair and Vice Chair of the Planning Commission resign<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-planning-commission","category-town-plan","tag-norwich-vt"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chair and Vice Chair of the Planning Commission resign - Norwich Observer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/norwichobserver.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/22\/chair-and-vice-chair-of-the-planning-commission-resign\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chair and Vice Chair of the Planning Commission resign - Norwich Observer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Norwich Planning Commission is experiencing significant upheaval in membership. 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