Reply #83: The board was replaced by the state senate, not Dean. [View All]

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Though I'm sure Dean did not shed a tear for them, he wasn;t responsable for their being rejected.

"98% of the permit requests (for Act 250 permits) are approved and only 20% ever have hearings"

Colby's piece is the only place I have seen this claim and the claim seems to run contrary the information in the act 250 handbook which lists tons of hearings and pre-hearings that permit seekers have to go through.

http://www.enviro-source.com/vt/vt6d.html



"People are going to disagree on policies but if Colby's facts are accurate, we can draw our own conclusion on how Dean's policies worked in Vermont."

Or you could look at the results in vermont or talk to the folks from vermont... Dean encouraged development at the same time he protected 8% of the total landmass of Vermont from development.