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Act 181 implementation
Compare Vermont's Housing Growth Areas with Tier 1B maps, then explore interim exemption records.
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Interim Act 250 exemption
Designated areas by municipality
While Act 181's tiers are phased in, housing in a designated downtown, village center and its quarter-mile buffer, growth center, new town center, or neighborhood development area can be exempt from Act 250. The State's interim map marks each area as likely eligible or not, based on local zoning and subdivision bylaws and on water, sewer, or soils.
| Municipality | Interim area | Likely exemption eligiblePublisher-reported | Zoning & bylawsDowntowns / village centers | InfrastructureAt least one alternative |
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Sorted by municipality, then downtown, village center, and growth or development area, then area name.
About this data
The eligibility column is the State’s likely interim Act 250 exemption eligibility flag, shown as published and not recalculated. It is not a Tier 1B approval or a permit decision, and a specific project may face conditions the map does not track. Each row is one published area. Unknown means the source left the value blank; it does not mean No.
| Designation | Zoning & bylaws | Infrastructure |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown districts | Required | Required |
| Village centers + buffer | Required | Required |
| New town centers, growth centers & neighborhood development areas | Not separately required | Required |
Infrastructure needs one of three: drinking water, sewer/wastewater, or adequate soils. One Yes is Met, three Nos is Not met, and anything else is Unknown.
In this snapshot, zoning separates Yes from No: every area marked No lacks zoning and subdivision bylaws. Nearly every area reports adequate soils, which meets the infrastructure test by itself. Some village centers have no drinking-water data, which leaves that item Unknown without changing their status.
The source has no zoning field for growth centers, new town centers, or neighborhood development areas, and their exemption does not list zoning as a separate condition. “Not separately required” means only that; it does not mean these areas have no zoning obligations.
Rows are grouped by the municipality name as published, so some groups are villages or localities, such as Tyson or West Brattleboro. One area is published under Jericho\Underhill. On the map, areas are assigned to towns by those names plus a reviewed list of corrections, never by spatial overlap; the Jericho–Underhill area counts toward both towns but is still one area. An area with no municipality name would appear under “Unknown municipality.”
The table covers the first three layers of the State’s interim Act 250 map: downtown districts, growth and development areas, and village centers. Priority housing projects and transit buffers are not included. All data comes from a saved snapshot, not a live feed.
On the map, Housing Growth Areas are the Downtown Center, Village Center, Planned Growth Area, and Village Area polygons from each region’s future land use map; polygons within 100 m of each other in the same municipality count as one area. Tier 1B comes from each region’s furthest submitted map: pre-application, application, or approved. Hover labels call this the submission stage, and most regional maps are not yet approved. Municipality colors summarize coverage, not legal eligibility or approval. Missing geometry or incompatible stages show as unknown. Covered or uncovered pieces under one acre inside a larger area are hidden as boundary slivers but still count toward coverage.
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