Vermont’s Nude Town still trying to cover up
The Brattleboro Selectboard took one more step toward approving an ordinance that would prohibit nudity in the Vermont town’s public areas when it asked the town manager to prepare a draft ordinance for its first reading at its next meeting on Nov. 20. The board also agreed to add language to a town zoning regulation closing a loophole that would have allowed some businesses to have naked employees.
Selectboard Vice Chairman Dick DeGray said all members of the board had made compromises to make an anti-nudity ordinance acceptable. The board’s decision to compromise on the ordinance is a good sign, said DeGray. Coming to such an agreement "is something we have rarely done since we’ve been elected," he said.
For his part, he said, he agreed to not pursue making nudity a criminal offense and would instead support keeping it a civil infraction punishable with a ticket. Hopefully, he said, making it a civil infraction will end nudity on Brattleboro’s streets. "I don’t want to see people getting arrested, but I don’t want to see people abusing the town," said DeGray.
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