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The East Village Expansion Advisory Committee has focused the project on the parameters of Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Funds to which the Town is applying for nearly $10 million for this and other projects.
A public hearing will be held on Sep 25th, 6 p.m. Town Hall Opera House ahead of the grant submission on Sep 30th. See Grant Application Draft.
Nearly 200 people attended the New Home Fair organized by the Prospective Buyer Working Group - with 30 exhibitors of local home building resources as well as tours of a tiny house, the proposed expansion neighborhood land and a local yurt. Reference the Event Directory for building resources!
Following an application and review period, the Select Board appointed a new committee to guide the project called the East Village Expansion Advisory Committee. Read more about the goals for the group on the town's EVEAC webpage.
At the Plainfield Town Meeting on 3/4/2025 residents voted 130-30 for the town to open a "reserve fund" for the project.
We had 3 different concept designs come out of the February 8th Community Design Workshop,
These concept drawings were then publicly surveyed (68 responses) to get further feedback to develop a revised single concept for further public comment.
This survey was to collect public input on one final design derived from the 3 concept drawings that came out of the Community Design Workshop on Feb. 8th + public survey responses after the Design Workshop regarding these 3 drawings.
Summary Figures of all responses are available here. (Note: Response counts are noted by chart. Some respondents chose to skip some questions.)
All individual responses are available here, anonymously (Excel format). Individual Final Comments (PDF format - easier to read than Excel)
(Note: 3 Respondents do not live in Plainfield currently, but would like to buy lots, if available)
We had 3 different concept designs come out of this all-day workshop, attended by over 60 Plainfielders and facilitated by 10 professional architects.
Thanks to everyone who was able to join and ask good questions, we had over 100 people on Thursday and about 40 on Sunday.
Below are the links to both recordings.
Note that the recording sound quality is much better on Sunday Jan. 12th. (we used a microphone).
Sunday, Jan 12:
(Better Sound Quality of the 2)
Thursday, Jan 9:
Today we dug test pits to know soil types and check for ledge. Thankfully there was no ledge and we have great soils for building!
Big thanks to Carlo Rovetto, owner of Positive Pie, for doing the excavation work!
Tour of the property for neighbors on East Hill, Main St. and Creamery St.
There will be future public tours. Please e-mail if you're interested.
This website is up for testing. Hooray!
UPenn Planning Class tour of both Erica & Bram’s property and along the Great Brook in the Village where most houses have applied for buyouts. The UPenn class project was at the initiation of the VT Bond Bank. The idea is to provide food for thought for the Village Expansion's public design process.
We are having the wetlands on the site professionally delineated by Brad Wheeler of Wheeler Environmental Services LLC. Brad's delineation is confirmed by the VT Agency of Natural Resources. Maps will be posted on this website once they are available.
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