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Have a tip or idea? EDITORS REPORTERS President Jim Fogler 802.660.1800 media.com Advertising Director Tammy Johnson 802.6601819 media.com Controller Kathy Worth, Human resources manager Nora Pietrafesa Commercial print Trevor Chase 802.660.1888 media.com Distribution manager Pat McDonough 802.660.1811 media.com Consumer Sales and Marketing Manager Kasia Abrams 802.651.4891 media.com MEET OUR EXECUTIVE TEAM MORRISTOWN If Gov. Phil Scott has an origin story a single incident that continues to shape his political career astory he often told on the campaign trail about amotorcycle shop stymied by permit problems. Scott was 24 years old, afew years out from an industrial engineering program at the University of Vermont and dreaming of a motorcycle shop franchise under the name Cycle Dynamics. He wanted to build a new shop on property in Morristown owned by H.A. Manosh and maybe add snowmobiles and chainsaws to his list of products.

Scott obtained local permits, demolished an existing building and got to work. He delivered fuel oil during the week and built the one-story shop, with help, on nights and weekends. was grounded, he knew what he was doing, and he had a said Howard Manosh, who mentored Scott. One month from the opening date, when the building was percent in telling, he received a notice that never applied for apermit under Act 250, land-use law designed to minimize negative environmental impacts from development. As governor, Scott now is trying to revamp Act 250.

was 24 years old at the time. I know what Act 250 was, to be honest with Scott said in a recent interview. had mentioned it along the It was May 1983, and the motorcycle season was beginning. Scott said he ran out of time and money to pour into the business, and he was about to lose his motorcycle shop clients. sucked the energy out of Scott said.

just threw in the State records show that Scott and Manosh applied for an Act 250 permit, which was withdrawn four years later without completion. Scott said Manosh later completed the building, which is now a hair salon. Scott took a job for Manosh, working under construction manager Gary Nolan, who is now a Republican state legislator. Nolan and Manosh and confirmed key points of story. Scott later agreed to join his family business, DuBois Construction, which he ran until December 2016, when he sold his share to reduce conflicts of interest in the Office.

The Republican governor still wonders what would have happened if the state permit process stopped his motorcycle shop. definitely changed my Scott said. When he became a state senator, Scott worked on a permit reform bill with then-Gov. Jim Douglas in 2003 and 2004. Now, 30 years after the motorcycle shop failure, governorship carries echoes of Act 250 frus- tration.He believes more business owners are aware of Act 250 requirements today than he was in the 1980s, but he continues Scott seeks reform of Act 250, which he says foiled shop plan APRIL PRESS Gov.

Phil Scott looks over the Act 250 permit application filed for his Morristown motorcycle shop project in May 1983. Scott said he was forced to abandon the project. Cites permit issue as fatal to his cycle store in APRIL MCCULLUM FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER.