To serve the community by facilitating the creation and preservation
of a healthy, safe, and high quality living environment through the
management of an effective, on-going planning and implementation process.
Each word of this mission has very specific meaning. In carrying it
out, the department has several areas of responsibility:
» To protect and improve Montpelier's natural and built environment;
» To strengthen the local economy and tax base;
» To meet housing needs of low moderate income residents;
» To engage community in short long term planning; and
» To provide information service public.
These are implemented through our planning, zoning, and community development
programs and through the stewardship of public records. Most of our housing,
loan, and economic development activities are carried out through an arm
of our department referred to as the Community
Development Agency (CDA), a moniker that remained long after the
City's planning and zoning functions were added to it in the late 1980s.
We are also very involved in many on-going activities relating to downtown
promotion, economic development, tourism, and business promotion (including
the development and on-going maintenance of this Web site). We also administer
several housing programs for low and moderate income residents. All of these
program areas have benefitted from the successful application for and administration
of state and federal grants.
The Montpelier Zoning & Subdivision Regulations are actually Article
15 of the City's Code of Ordinances. A paper copy of the ordinance can be
purchased from the Planning & Community Development Department for $10,
not including postage.
An updated Zoning Districts map is available here:
Trainings Vermont Planning Information Center (www.vpic.info)- is a Web site with information for planning commissions, zoning boards, development
review boards, zoning administrators, and their staff.
City of
Montpelier
Department of Planning and Community Development
39 Main Street, City Hall
Montpelier, VT 05602-2950
Tel: (802) 223-9506
FAX: (802) 223-9524
E-mail: planning@montpelier-vt.org
Montpelier
Zoning & Subdivision Regulations 
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