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Intru t1_j8v2uhv wrote

Reply to comment by cpujockey in How Vermont’s Housing Crisis Got So Bad by punkthesystem

The problem with the suburbs that they are not resilient long term and are restricted to single family housing and car based comercial, single family housing is that it's the only housing typology allowed in a lot of our residential zoned land. That's the problem its zoned out diversity of housing stock. You should be able to get the housing type you want but when you gate keep it so the only housing you can get is only one type then we create the hot mess we are i.

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Clamato-n-rye t1_j8v2chn wrote

Reply to comment by HumpSlackWails in Northfield's Police Chief Takes Flak for His Provocative Public Stances by BudsKind802

The interplay between leaders and those who choose them goes both ways. Getting rid of a leaders can absolutely change the attitude or mood of a city; especially if the next one is better.

You're right that the local support for right-wing shitheads is part of the problem. But that doesn't mean it's worthless to get rid of a bad leader.

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Intru t1_j8v20f6 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in How Vermont’s Housing Crisis Got So Bad by punkthesystem

There's way of stoping suburbs and promoting sustainable communities that grow. Act 250 is a barrier but never trust a developers, lot size maximums and up zoning all single family zones to allow for up to 4 units. Allow soft commercial and edu in all residential zones. Have developers cover the maintenance of road and water infrastructure in developments of given size for up to 10 years so they have to cover the first cycle of maintenance. Remove parking minimums, lot size mins, floor area ratios, allow for single access blocks, ban drive thrus, ban street facing parking lots, require all commercial to have main entries to be street facing, etc, etc.

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CorrectFall6257 t1_j8v1x19 wrote

Reply to Is the Pizza Hut in Rutland any good? by hagemeyp

Uncle Tony's aka David Manolfi. The Manolfi family have been making pizza and bread in Rutland over 120 years. I lived across the street and worked for him at School St Bakery. He then had Avellinos. Now is Uncle T

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FourteenthCylon t1_j8us2ci wrote

Reply to Only in VT does the propane guy deliver on this like it’s nothing. by OldVTGuy

I used to work as a delivery driver for a propane company. Ice is no problem. Tire chains made from hardened steel with V-grips welded to the chains will get you over any ice. What IS a problem is thick hard-packed snow. If you don't ever plow your driveway and just keep driving over it and tramping the snow down, that's fine for a car. However, a truck loaded with five tons of propane will push through the packed snow and will get bogged down. It doesn't help that the packed part is always the width of a car, not of a propane truck. If you want to be sure you can get propane or oil delivered all winter, keep your driveway plowed, and plowed nice and wide.

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Full_Whereas_2694 t1_j8upwht wrote

Reply to Mud Season by DebunkerTheGreat

Here in Lincoln at 1300 feet I’ll give it a 5/10 meaning at no point between the pavement and my house so I sincerely fear for my undercarriage. Mostly just frozen ruts, can’t drink coffee and drive kinda thing. After an inch of rain tomorrow we’ll see.

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njpanther t1_j8udq6t wrote

Reply to Vegetable garden seeds by WCDavison

An underutilized source for seeds may actually be your local library, depending on where you live. Our town library in Jericho has a “seed library” for members to borrow seeds. Other than that, Johnny’s, Fedco, or High Mowing.

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