Too much BANANA NIMBY in Vermont to expect any major success in development, especially when it concerns "affordable" housing. Everyone agrees it's a good idea, but nobody wants it anywhere near their own house.

It's too easy to stymie development in VT. People and "interested groups" will use any excuse available to delay and increase costs in an attempt to prevent new housing. They'll say the impact of new development on local traffic will be detrimental, that the infrastructure can't sustain the predicted traffic volume, and sue in court. They'll say the new development doesn't adequately address drainage concerns and will damage a fragile, nearby bog ecosystem that nobody previously gave a shit about, and sue in court. And then, and then, and then...