Elizabeth Courtney: An opportunity to steer development

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Elizabeth Courtney, an author and environmental consultant who is former chair of the Environmental Board and former executive director of the Vermont Natural Resources Council. She can be contacted at elizabethcourtneyvt@gmail.com.
This summer and fall, the Commission on the Future of Act 250 will be coming to a town near you. The commission’s six legislators, chaired by Middlebury Rep. Amy Sheldon, will be on a listening tour of the state, taske