Introducing a new Flood Adaptation Guide for Historic Villages This spring the WRC asked students of the Conway School Graduate Program in Sustainable Landscape Planning & Design to develop a guide to inform flood adaptation strategies for historic villages. This...
The WRC will be promoting capital planning as a fiscal management best practice, budgeting for hazard mitigation and disaster recovery, and a pathway towards greater self-reliance in an era of reduced federal and state aid and increasing costs.
WRC is hosting three Land Use Planning workshops in May and June 2026 focusing on strategies for implementing Town Plans, what towns can do to support housing development, and the land use decision making process for municipal boards.
Planning for flooding on a town-by-town basis is a challenge, especially since waterways do not stop at town boundaries. This project worked with towns individually and as a group to explore how they might evolve up and away from flood hazards.
There have been a lot of questions around Act 181’s new Tier 3 jurisdiction and the Road Rules. Find some answers here.
Dover, Readsboro, Whitingham & Wilmington Participate in Flood Adaptation Project A team let by the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Center for Resilient Metro Regions and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Foundation’s Communities by Design (CxD)...
WRC Adopts Windham Regional Plan Update The Windham Regional Commission voted to adopt the Windham Regional Plan update at their regular meeting on July 29, 2025. This concludes WRC’s regional plan update process that began in the Fall of 2022. WRC has transitioned...
Draft Windham Region Cultural Plan Available for Feedback Culture, creativity and the arts are a fundamental part of our region’s identity and a driver of our local economy. The Towns of Brattleboro, Rockingham, and Wilmington, with assistance from the Windham...
Outdoor Recreation Inventory & Analysis Report Released The WRC collaborated with The Conway School to develop an Outdoor Recreation Inventory Analysis for the Windham Region with a goal of using it as the foundation for an eventual Windham Region outdoor...
Harnessing Planning Opportunities Created by Four Recent Statutes Integrating actions required by recently-passed statutes related to Act 250 and regional planning, housing, flood safety, and conservation creates the opportunity to make progress towards housing and...
From the Director, February 2026: Impacts of FEMA Putting Emergency Planning Funding on Hold For this newsletter I’m sharing a letter I sent on behalf of Vermont’s 11 regional planning commissions to the Senate Natural Resources Committee explaining how FEMA’s...