The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
Subchapter
003
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USE AND DEVELOPMENT PLANS
(Cite as: 10 V.S.A. § 6042)
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§ 6042. Capability and Development Plan
The Board shall adopt a Capability and Development Plan consistent with the Interim
Land Capability Plan that shall be made with the general purpose of guiding and accomplishing
a coordinated, efficient, and economic development of the State, which will, in accordance
with present and future needs and resources, best promote the health, safety, order,
convenience, prosperity, and welfare of the inhabitants, as well as efficiency and
economy in the process of development, including such distribution of population and
of the uses of the land for urbanization, trade, industry, habitation, recreation,
agriculture, forestry, and other uses as will tend to create conditions favorable
to transportation, health, safety, civic activities, and educational and cultural
opportunities, reduce the wastes of financial and human resources that result from
either excessive congestion or excessive scattering of population and tend toward
an efficient and economic utilization of drainage, sanitary, and other facilities
and resources and the conservation and production of the supply of food, water, and
minerals. In addition, the plan may accomplish the purposes set forth in 24 V.S.A. § 4302. (Added 1969, No. 250 (Adj. Sess.), § 19, eff. April 4, 1970.)