Planning & Community Development
Mission Statement: To serve the community by facilitating the creation and preservation of a healthy, safe, sustainable, and high quality living environment through the management of an effective and 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 and 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 administer Montpelier's land development regulatory process, which includes zoning, subdivision, and design review. The department staffs the Planning Commission, Design Review Committee, Development Review Board, and the recently formed Historic Preservation Commission.
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.
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January 21, 2010
Montpelier Wins $8 Million Federal Energy Grant
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October 06, 2009
Onion River Exchange finds a new home
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Sep 06, 2010 All Day
Holiday - City Offices Closed
City offices will be closed in observation of Labor Day.
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Sep 07, 2010 3:00 pm
Finance Sub-Committee Meeting
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Sep 07, 2010 4:30 pm
Senior Services Coordinating Committee Meeting
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Follow Up On the Lost Money - Press Release - Oct 12, 2009
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Deep Financial Water - Press Release - Oct 9, 2009
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