On March 7, 2023, voters in Burlington, Vermont, will decide on at least seven ballot measures—five of which were placed on the ballot by the Burlington City Council, and two which were placed on the ballot by citizen initiative.
The council-referred measures are as follows:
- A charter amendment that would allow non-citizens who are legal residents to vote in municipal and school board elections
- A charter amendment that would require voters to be residents of a ward or city district if casting a ballot for certain local officers or local public questions, and to provide that the City Council determines the number and location of polling places in each ward
- A charter amendment that would redistrict city election boundaries
- A charter amendment that would provide that ranked-choice voting be established for elections for mayor, school commissioners, and ward election officers
- A measure that would implement a carbon pollution impact fee starting for “new construction buildings that install fossil fuel thermal energy systems,” and for existing commercial and industrial buildings that have installed fossil “fuel thermal energy space conditioning or domestic water heating systems”
