Panel questions agriculture Act 250 exemption

Vermont dairy farm fields. Photo by Terry J. Allen/VTDiggerA legislative panel wants to hear the Agriculture Agency’s case for why farmers should continue to be exempt from environmental enforcement under Vermont’s land use law.
The question comes from a body of six legislators who form the Commission on Act 250. The commission, which met Wednesday, is tasked with proposing fixes and updates to the state’s land use laws that will bring Act 250’s 50-year-old regulations up