Planning Board:
• 3 to 9 members may be appointed or elected by decision of the municipality
• A majority must be residents of the municipality
• Responsible for developing and proposing to the legislative body:
– Town Plan
– Zoning By-Laws
– Subdivision By-Laws
• Prepare a recommended capital budget
• In the absence of a Development Review Board, P.C.’s hearings on subdivisions
• Undertake “capacity studies”
• Participate in a regional planning program

Zoning Board of Adjustment:
• Between 5 and 9 members appointed by the legislative body
• Holds “quasi-judicial” hearings on applications for zoning permits
– Conditional Uses
– Variances
– Appeals from a decision of the Zoning Administrator

Development Review Board
• Replaces Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA)
• Similar functions as ZBA, but also hears subdivision applications
• Provides Planning Commission more time to plan

Conservation Commission:
• Created by town vote or vote of the legislative body
• 3 to 9 members
• Non-regulatory, advisory board
• The conservation commission may make an inventory and conduct studies of the municipal natural resources including air, surface waters, and ground waters and pollution thereof; soils and their capabilities; mineral and other earth resources; streams, lakes, ponds, wetlands and floodplains; unique or fragile biologic sites; scenic and recreational resources; plant and animal life; prime agricultural and forest land; and other open lands.
• May administer town lands

Listers:
• Responsible for property assessment and developing the “Grand List” on which property taxes are based
– Listers must “determine the "fair market value" of the personal and real property and set it in the grand list book at 1% of that value.” 32 V.S.A. § 3482.