Woodstock school district passes housing easement
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By Josh O'Gorman STAFF WRITER - Published: March 5, 2009
WOODSTOCK — Residents in the Woodstock Union High School District approved an article that will help the construction of an affordable housing development across from the high school.
Residents authorized the Woodstock Union High School District School Board to grant an easement to the Woodstock Community Trust for its Grange Hill Development. The easement will allow Woodstock Community Trust to use school property to install drainpipes and a discharge channel to direct storm-water runoff.
Woodstock voters defeated the article, 440-429, but residents in Killington approved it 84-25. Board member Andrew Cole said residents in Barnard, Bridgewater, Pomfret and Reading passed it as well.
Grange Hill Family Housing is a proposed 36-unit development for which plans have been rejected, revised and then accepted by the town's Design Review Board, but in October, an Environmental Court judge ruled the plans need to be revised yet again to address several issues, including stormwater runoff.
By a 598-250 vote, residents approved a budget for the Woodstock Union High School District of $10,948,763, an increase of $256,903, or 2.4 percent, more than the current budget of $10,691,860.
Incumbent Lister Margaret Brady was defeated by challenger Charlie Degener, 437-350. First Constable Penny Davis kept her one-year position against challenger Roger W. Berry Jr., 725-110. Alita Wilson drew 85 write-in votes for a seat on the Woodstock Elementary School Board.
josh.ogorman@rutlandherald.com
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