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Hurray for a newspaper able to print in color proposed land use and zoning maps for a town. As someone who knows Dummerston a bit through teenage residency in Putney and continuing but occasional visits to the Brattleboro region, I have the following questions or thoughts:
• There are other Vermont towns in which the center is not on a major contemporary corridor, and one wonders how they create - should it be considered a public good or aim - a sense of centeredness.
• There are other Vermont towns with two main travel corridors, or parallel but separate ribbons of somewhat-more-intense commercial development, and one wonders just what this bifurcation means, over time. A population (even of transients) primarily knowing just eastern Dummerston or just western Dummerston?
• Without ski developments, presumably higher land is less developed, or undeveloped, and lowlands with better agricultural potential compete with denser real-estate pressures. Such patterns are to be seen as enduring?...
