Research snapshot · Waste · 13 September 2026

Pesticide restrictions in Vermont: 9 towns on the record, the pace easing

This page is a snapshot, cut 13 September 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Local limits on pesticide and herbicide use on public and private land, and the ordinances and waivers implementing them.Our definition of the class.

Snapshot taken 13 September 2026, based on 17 dated municipal records flagged as pesticide restrictions in Vermont, spanning 9 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

Source documents 3 of 12 on this page link straight to the town's own record. The rest are available on request. Ask for access.

The story so far

The record starts in Colchester, 8 May 2023. Since then 9 Vermont towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Fairfax on 1 May 2026.

The last 90 days put 2 meetings on the record, down from 3 in the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Colchester Newsletters, Weekly Warning Lists and Paradise Park Commission (PPC).

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTowns
Sep 2025 to Nov 202500
Dec 2025 to Feb 202654
Mar 2026 to May 202633
Jun 2026 to Sep 2026 (current)22

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Dec 2025 to Feb 2026, with 5 meetings.

The towns on the record9, earliest first

Every Vermont town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Colchesterearliest 2023-05-08 · 3 meetings · latest 2026-01-12 · the document For the Week of January 12, 2026
Williamstownearliest 2024-01-11 · 1 meeting · latest 2024-01-11 · the document 20240110-planning-mins-williamstown-vt
South Burlingtonearliest 2024-04-28 · 3 meetings · latest 2025-06-29 · the document Weekly Warning June 29, 2025 - July 5, 2025 (PDF)
Westminsterearliest 2025-09-09 · 5 meetings · latest 2026-06-25 · the minutes WCC-minutes- 6.25.26
Jerichoearliest 2026-02-18 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-02-18 · the minutes AgendaCenter minutes
Windsorearliest 2026-02-19 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-02-19 · the agenda Paradise Park Commission Agenda
Hinesburgearliest 2026-04-09 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-04-09 · the agenda Town Forest Committee Agenda 04-09-26
Fairfaxearliest 2026-05-01 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-06-25 · the minutes FOSC Meeting Minutes Final For April 28 2026
Richmonddated to the year only

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

25 June 2026 · Westminster

the minutes, on the town's own site WCC-minutes- 6.25.26

25 June 2026 · Fairfax

the minutes, on the town's own site FOSC Meeting Minutes Final For April 28 2026

9 April 2026 · Hinesburg Town Forest Committee

the agenda, on the town's own site Town Forest Committee Agenda 04-09-26

19 February 2026 · Windsor Paradise Park Commission (PPC)

the agenda, on the town's own site Paradise Park Commission Agenda

Companies on this record52 companies, 13 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
AVCCJericho, Westminster
VNRCWestminster
VECANWestminster
VT Fish and WildlifeWestminster
Act 59Westminster
AgeWellColchester
Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki (Btk)Colchester
BioFinderWestminster
BolinasFairfax
BRMSJericho
CAISOFairfax
CALAFCOFairfax
Canoe Brook Nature PreserveWestminster
CCRPCRichmond
Charles F. McGlashen Advocacy awardFairfax
CivicSolSouth Burlington
Connecticut River Grassland BirdsWestminster
COREFairfax
Customized Energy SolutionsFairfax
CVRPCWilliamstown
Dr. Tara MillerWestminster
Episcopal ChurchFairfax
EucalyptusFairfax
Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California (FHANC)Fairfax
Fairfax San Anselmo Children’s CenterFairfax
Fire Station 21Fairfax
French broomFairfax
GazetteWestminster
Ginnever propertyWestminster
Independent utility companiesColchester

And 22 more companies.

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 13 September 2026; the topic is not. 25 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

How we can tell you about it ongoing

We track this topic continuously; this page is one cut of it, taken 13 September 2026. An account turns the snapshot into a working view: every town and every document behind these counts, the thread on each matter as it develops, word of new meetings as they land on the record, your own states and topics side by side, and the data itself when you want it in a table. The towns above are the taste; what each is actually deciding, funding or stalling is the read an account carries.

Also at this scope: Pesticide restrictions across the country. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.

Pesticide restrictions, Vermont

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

Vermont

every topic this state carries

Area

Waste

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

9

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

8 May 2023

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

2 against 3 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

13 September 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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