By “Jack” Buell
On November 10th, 2009, the Town of Burlington Board unanimously disapproved the final draft of the Comprehensive Plan for the town. Recently, I had an opportunity to speak by phone with Mr. Deuvall, then Chairman of the Comprehensive Plan Committee and the current Chairman of the Planning Board to ask some questions regarding the [...]

By James Deuvall
In support of the goals of the Comprehensive Plan (the final public hearing occuring this Tuesday, October 20, 2009), local encouragement of agriculture is our objective. Introducing new concepts of marketing agriculture within the community is one of the goals of this website. The following article on CSA farms is only a [...]

By Dr. Michael Powers
Recent conversations with public officials at the county level have begun to highlight the importance of comprehensive planning as it relates to the Town of Burlington.  Actually, the more correct statement might be the importance of our current lack of comprehensive planning, and how that may affect the near future of the [...]

by James Deuvall, Comprehensive Plan Committee
 
Its been said that “common-sense is not so common”.   The phrase has been misused as a declaration that a person isn’t very bright, such as “Tom doesn’t know which end of a nail to hit, he has no common-sense”.  The idea that there is a universal or even community wide [...]

By Dr. Michael Powers, Comprehensive Plan Committee
The Comprehensive Plan Committee reports that the draft version of the Comprehensive Plan is nearing completion after more than a year spent in public input and preparation. Upon completion, a public hearing will be scheduled to review the plan for the public and provide a final opportunity for comment [...]