Montpelier, Vt. • Efforts to stop a massive development in four rural Vermont towns by a Utah businessman based on the papers of Mormon founder Joseph Smith have reached the state Legislature.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced a resolution in the Vermont House opposed to the NewVistas project, the Valley News reports. It calls on developer David Hall, whose family foundation has been buying land near Smith’s birthplace in Sharon, Vermont, to abandon his plans for a self-sustaining community with housing for 20,000 residents. The nonbinding measure also calls for the state to “ensure that the NewVistas Foundation operates in accordance with the laws of this state.