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PUBLIC HEARING
SOUTH BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD
The South Burlington Development Review Board will hold a public hearing in the South Burlington City Hall auditorium, 180 Market Street, South Burlington, Vermont, or online or by phone, on Tuesday June 7, 2022 at 7:00 P.M. to consider the following:
1. Site plan application #SP-22-021 and conditional use application #CU-22-04 of El Gato Cantina to amend a previously approved Planned Unit Development for a 705,335 sf shopping center complex. The amendment consists of adding seasonal mobile food unit as a use and designating an area for seasonal mobile food unit operations, 155 Dorset Street.
2. Final plat application #SD-22-07 of Hickory Hillside, LLC to subdivide an approximately 67.6 acre parcel into four lots of 65.31 acres (Lot 1), 0.69 acres (Lot 2), 0.69 acres (Lot 3), and 0.91 acres (Lot 4) for the purpose of conserving Lot 1 and constructing a single family home on each of Lots 2, 3, and 4, and, 47 Cheesefactory Road.
Board members will be participating in person. Applicants and members of the public may participate in person or remotely either by interactive online meeting or by telephone:
Interactive Online Meeting (audio & video): https://us06web.zoom. us/j/85259197529
By Telephone (audio only): (929) 205 6099, Meeting ID: 852 5919 7529
A copy of the application is available for public inspection by emailing Marla Keene, Development Review Planner, mkeene@sburl.com.
May 19, 2022
Earlier this year, the South Burlington school board passed its first equity policy with an empha-sis on data collection and reporting on issues of discrimination as top priorities. The policy in some ways leaned on the district’s efforts to hire an executive director of equity, noting that the new position will be required to develop a plan with the director of learning to address significant shortfalls in student outcomes. “I am excited to welcome De-Dee to the South Burlington School District this July,” super-intendent David Young said. “The search, engagement and hiring process for this crucial position has been a thoughtful, months-long endeavor. Her expertise and perspective will greatly help the district continue its efforts in the
areas of diversity, equity and inclu-sion.” Loftin-Davis has served as communications chair for her chap-ter of the NAACP, and has worked with colleges and her local school district facilitating discussions around racial equity. She’s contrib-uted articles about racial equity to Forbes and L.O.V.E. is the Answer, and as guest lectured at Lincoln University, where she was honored as a Woman of Change for Racial Equity award winner. Her foray into learning about diversity, inclusion and racial equity happened on her first day of kindergarten. “I was a really avid learn-er. Before I even went to my first day of kindergarten, my sister had already started a year before me, and she would come home and
she would teach me the alphabet,” Loftin-Davis recalled, adding that she felt determined to learn so she could teach her grandfather how to read. He’d who’d grown up in North Carolina working on a blue-berry farm starting at age 7 and
wasn’t able to get a formal educa-tion. But when she arrived at school and was greeted by the other kids, they threw rocks and slurs at her, staining her dress with blood and sending her home crying. “I told (my grandmother) what happened and then she wiped my tears and said, ‘We’re going back,’” Loftin-Davis said. “That day my grandmother, and to the credit of the teacher, talked about racial equity and how important inclusion was. That day is when it found me.” How does she respond to people who might question the need for an equity director in the school district? Well, she faces conflict every day, she said. “We live on a street called conflict, because of racism,” she said. “It’s unrelenting, yet we have
to live our lives. So, the best way we can qualify ourselves every single day is through conflict, whether it’s in a workplace or in education. What does that look like? How do we do that? Not just through conversation, but also active listening and seeing where (another person’s) viewpoint is, and what their motives are.” Overall, her goal is to make sure all voices in the district are being heard, from students to staff to families. Beyond inclusion, she wants to ensure people feel a sense of belonging. But it won’t be solved through one plan or policy, she noted — the work takes place every day. “There’s a realness to this work. But there are some middle roads where you can have that joy,” she said.
De-Dee Loftin-Davis
EQUITY DIRECTORcontinued from page 1
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