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Community Development Journal Advance Access published online on July 12, 2005
Community Development Journal, doi:10.1093/cdj/bsi060
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Community versus development? Land use and development policy in Vermont as a tool toward community viability

Margaret DeWeese-Boyd 1*

1 Department of Sociology and Social Work, Gordon College, 255 Grapevine Road, Wenham, Massachusetts 01984, USA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Margaret DeWeese-Boyd, E-mail: mdeweese{at}gordon.edu


  Abstract

This paper examines Vermont's Land Use and Development Law (Act 250) as a means of promoting community development through public policy. Central to the law are mechanisms that invite citizen participation in the development and planning process. Accordingly, citizens can organize and undertake collective action against development projects that are understood as posing a threat to the ongoing life of the community. A case is explored in which citizens organized under the banner of Act 250 to prevent Wal-Mart from entering their community, in order to protect a vulnerable downtown area that had centred public and commercial life for generations.


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