Burlington City Council Approves Rezoning Plan to Boost Housing Supply

Burlington city councilors on Monday unanimously approved a rezoning proposal that officials say will create hundreds of new homes over the next decade.BTV Neighborhood Code, a zoning rewrite months in the making, will allow people to build multifamily homes where they're currently banned. The citywide "upzoning" encourages denser, infill development by allowing more than one building on a residential lot and by letting those buildings take up a greater portion of the property.The version passed by councilors differed slightly from the one proposed by city staff. The council reviewed seven...