Middlebury submits state’s first CHIP application

A rendering of townhomes at a groundbreaking event for Stonecrop Meadows, a mixed-income housing project in Middlebury, in Feb. 2025. File photo by Carly Berlin/VTDigger and Vermont PublicThis story by John Flowers was first published in the Addison Independent on Aug. 20, 2026.MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury last week became the first community to dip its toe into Vermont’s new Community & Housing Infrastructure Program. Through CHIP the town would be able to borrow money to build muni