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[Rep. Richard Nelson (Ranking Member)]: In one p. Yep. And and that's what I know Richard and others were very concerned.
[Rep. David Durfee (Chair)]: The the tier one tier one b is bigger, so that's you know, a concern would be, well, there's more land there, and tier one a is neither of them exist yet. I guess it's hard to say that. And tier one sounds like at this point, a lot of communities are not interested in doing that. In fact, there were several towns mentioned, think Chittenden County towns that aren't even going to apply for tier 1B. So whatever the requirements are to do that might be too much for some communities if this way. Do you default to tier two then? Yeah. Which is Unless you're a status quo, right? Yeah.
[Rep. Richard Nelson (Ranking Member)]: Is it J and K that you want us to look at? I mean, the
[Rep. David Durfee (Chair)]: I'm not even looking at anything. Yeah. I'm just saying it's there, it's your leisure to take a look at it. But the other point that was made was that ideally when towns are drawing their maps, they're not taking existing ag lands and putting it into tier one, that they are trying to be cognizant of that. Yeah. We
[Rep. Richard Nelson (Ranking Member)]: just we're getting different sides of the you know? So we can't we can't do what all of them want. We
[Rep. David Durfee (Chair)]: can't do what they all want. That's that's true. One thing we can think about, and we talked about this a little bit last week, I wanna put it out there again, is whether the fixing or solving the issue that the Supreme Court raised should be tied in a bill that we do to expanding the right across the state of anyone in any town to grow their own food. So what we are calling the right to grow food, and we haven't defined that yet exactly what that is, but do we want to put that together? And there were different perspectives, I think, on that. If anybody wants to repeat those perspectives or add anything more, because I think a couple of people had mentioned that they thought it was a good idea or not a good idea. And I don't think we came to any strong conclusion there. I think there are considerations, how likely is it that we'll pass something and do we want to attach our right to grow food to something that might not pass? Would it be easier if we just had it on its own? And I don't know the answer to that. Something to think about. If everyone agreed, if we had a broad agreement on solving the problem, then attaching it might make sense because I feel like that's gonna go through. What I'm gonna suggest is that we think about this. We have some time, I think again tomorrow, we'll look at some language maybe based on what we've been hearing from the different groups and see if we can move forward. Richard, I'll make sure that you're that you we've heard several times from you that you're sorry you weren't able to join us today downstairs. And you think you'll be in tomorrow?
[Rep. Richard Nelson (Ranking Member)]: Okay. Yeah. I'm feeling I'm feeling better and DayQuil's working great and I plan on double shot NightQuil about 08:00 tonight. So I sleep a couple hours longer and I'll be good tomorrow.
[Rep. David Durfee (Chair)]: K. Alright. We'll see
[Rep. Richard Nelson (Ranking Member)]: you tomorrow at 09:30. Richard, they got some snow coming in tonight. We ain't afraid of snow or would Jed? No. But snow and speed like that combination. That is a true statement. Speed and snow are a bad combination. Now I'll be there tomorrow. Hey chair, I am all in favor of people having the right to grow their own food and you know, and I don't care what tier they're in. They may end up getting shaded out by a five story 60 unit apartment building but they have to go to shade loving crops I guess but I'm in favor of everyone growing their own food.
[Rep. David Durfee (Chair)]: Okay. We will see everybody at 09:30 then. Or