Selectboards in Hartland and Pomfret have scheduled the second of two statutorily required public hearings on proposed revisions to their respective town plans.
The Hartland Planning Commission (HPC), in consultation with the Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission (TRORC), has been working on the latest iteration of the local plan for the last three years. The HPC held its own second public hearing on a draft of the 2026 Hartland Town Plan in April, then passed it on to the selectboard for two public hearings before that body, the first of which took place on June 1. Following that hearing, the town selectboard returned the draft plan to the HPC for further revisions in collaboration with TRORC. The current, working version of the plan will be the focus of a second public hearing before the town governing board this coming Monday, July 6, at Damon Hall, the municipal office building, at 1 Quechee Road in Hartland, beginning at 6 p.m. The hearing will also be streamed via Zoom.
Presuming that there are no further revisions to the plan required following public comments on July 6, the Hartland Selectboard is expected to okay it at its regularly scheduled bimonthly public meeting, which will follow the second hearing at 7 p.m.
On Wednesday, July 15, at 7 p.m., at the Pomfret Town Hall, the selectboard will hold what has been officially noticed as a “final public hearing” on that municipality’s proposed revisions to the current town plan. The gathering will be the second public hearing before the Pomfret Selectboard, following two such statutorily mandated hearings before the Pomfret Planning Commission (PPC).
Unless further revisions to the 2026 Pomfret Town Plan are required as a result of public comments heard at the July 15 hearing, the selectboard is expected to pass the final draft version of the revised plan as presented.
For more on this, please see our July 2 edition of the Vermont Standard.
