VILLAGE STEERING COMMITTEE MINUTES

March 12, 2007 (Monday, 7 pm, Town Hall)

• Members present: Dona Constantineau, George Dameron (Chair), Karla Munson, Dona Walker
• Minutes of February 12, 2007 approved
• Karla Munson welcomed back to committee
• Brief updates and reports: 
• Transportation update (KM). Hinesburg will apply for a United-We-Ride Grant
• Affordable housing discussion update (DC). Discussions are on-going with the Planning Commission regarding the addition of inclusionary zoning into the new zoning regulations.
• Traffic control (30 mph new limit). The VSC welcomed the lowering of the village speed limit to 30. Karla Munson should take credit for this, and the committee thanked her.
• Planning Commission and the Village Growth Project. A final document may be forthcoming within the next few months.
• Village growth projects—GD (the chair) reported on the current status of the Thistle Hill and Green Street projects and about the new bank planned for Commerce Street.
• Status of on-going village recommendations:
• architectural guide and historical overview project (Saint Michael’s College student fall/spring). A student has been identified and has come forward to do research on the village and its building for college credit in the fall and the spring (2007-2008).
• monument re-location and cost. There is nothing to report at this point.
• Signage for village. There is no movement on this recommendation, so the VSC may try to push it forward.
• Photos of village. The town planner has digital photographs of various buildings, taken recently by Anne Thomas.
• Program planning and committee budget. The committee has $500 to spend before July 1.
• Village Master Plan (VSC and PC). GD (chair) intends to complete the VSC portion of a village master plan draft in the spring.
• There were no announcements.
• There was no new business.
• The committee set the agenda for the next meeting (April 9, 2007)

GWD