[CamperBob2]

The subtext is somewhat, well, infuriating. Reading between the lines, it's almost impossible to build anything new in Vermont if your property is crossed by a road that hasn't been used as a road for a hundred years and can no longer even be seen without advanced imaging technology.

Maybe I spent too much time as a kid watching Star Trek and not enough time watching Little House on the Prairie, but this kind of misplaced reverence for the past seems downright silly, not to mention obstructive.

[Blackthorn]

Some people in Vermont find that to be Working As Intended. Luckily if you want to build, there's a state next door that it's easier to do so in.

[CamperBob2]

Yep, which is great if you knew about this policy when you were choosing where to live.

My suspicion is that most homeowners had/have no idea.