Paving paradise? Futurists question direction of Vt. development

By KEVIN O'CONNOR Staff Writer
Is there an answer to the decades-long question of how to balance the state's environment and economy through land-use planning?

"In testimony about land use and development, Vermonters focused on their desire for the continuity of the state's historic development pattern of tidy villages and cities surrounded by farms, fields, and forests," the council writes in its 112-page report, "Imagining Vermont: Values and Vision for the Future."