Brattleboro DRB Approval Granted for Local Land Acknowledgement

In a unanimous vote Wednesday, the Brattleboro Development Review Board approved a site plan and a change of use to religious facility and nature park to establish an Abenaki cultural center at 25 Shore Dr. Conditions are anticipated to be outlined by Brattleboro Zoning Administrator Brian Bannon in a written decision. Coverage by reporter Chris Mays in the Brattleboro Reformer is linked here.

It's an awkward proposition, navigating the intricacies, limitations, and requirements of Western land use regulations amid a legal system built atop when presented with ongoing traditional cosmological concepts of land relationship, but there is progress. There will be much to come - change is a constant.