The Town of Rockingham, over the past 6 months, engaged the Incremental Development Alliance (IncDev), with support from the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation and other sponsors. IncDev is a non-profit alliance of practitioners that helps identify where policies and practices are unnecessary barriers and partners with local organizations to improve the financial and regulatory ecosystem for small development projects. IncDev has helped Rockingham understand how their regulations can be improved to increase the “friendliness” to small scale developers, provided spot test examples of certain building forms that make sense in Rockingham/Bellows Falls, as well as provided an in-depth Target Market Analysis to understand the demand the town is missing out on. You can view all recorded presentations and documents at https://brattleborodevelopment.com/incdev-rockingham/ 

Interested actors from the town have created the Rockingham Incremental Development Working Group (RIDWG) to move forward on the actions suggested by IncDev. People that make up the group are property owners and landlords, business owners, local officials, town staff, and concerned residents.

Are you ready to take action and improve the small-scale development ecosystem in Rockingham/Bellows Falls? Let’s move from “Somebody oughta” to “Damn it, do it!”

Join us for our next meeting! Each meeting we leave with action items to complete, to move the town one step closer to vibrancy and strong neighborhoods.