Meetings
Celebrate the Spring season and get out there and cycle! Download info sheet. (164kb PDF) Learn about how your business can participate and don't forget about the free commuter breakfasts!
The Exec. Committee May meeting will be held May 16 instead of the 9th; note the location will be in Dover.
Small Homes, Small Lots: Great Communities
"Building in the New England Tradition"
Friday, May 16, 2008 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Foster's Downeast Clambake - 5 Axholm Road (off Rte. 1A) York Harbor, Maine
Cost: $15 - includes continental breakfast, scholarships available
Join your fellow Elected and Appointed Municipal and State Officials, Planners and Housing Developers to learn how our historic "New England Tradition" of community design and building is being revived to help solve today's housing challenges. Learn how smaller homes and smaller lot sizes can minimize development costs and impacts, and help create diverse housing stocks and vibrant communities.
Presenters:
Architect - Robert Knight, AIA - Knight Architects, Blue Hill ME
Nonprofit Developer - Peter Farrow, Esq., President - Concord Housing Trust, Concord MA
Planner - Steve Burns, Director - Town of York Community Development, York ME
Always a great event. May 29 at the Great Bay Gallery in Somersworth. 6-9 pm. RSVP with Marilyn at srpc@strafford.org or 603-742-2523.
Regatta Room, Shipyard Brew Pub, Eliot, Maine (proposed location)
Presentations:
Friday, June 6, 2008 from 8:30 am -11:30 am
For more information and to sign up for any of these events:
More information, visit: http://www.fbenvironmental.com/lid.html
This conference has been designed specifically for NH municipal leaders such as Planning Boards, Conservation Commissions, Select Boards, City Councils, Development Boards, Zoning Boards, Municipal Engineers, Town Planners, Regional Planners, and Community Leaders.
The planning committee for this conference included staff of the New Hampshire Coastal Program, NH Department of Environmental Services, NH Estuaries Project, Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, University of New Hampshire Stormwater Center, UNH Seagrant/Cooperative Extension, Strafford Regional Planning Commission, Town of Durham, Town of Exeter, Hodgson Brook Restoration Project, NH Natural Resource Outreach Coalition, and Altus Engineering.
Archive of documents...
The goal of The Land Conservation Plan for New Hampshire's Coastal Watersheds is to focus conservation on those lands and waters that are most important for conserving living resources -- native plants, animals, and natural communities -- and water quality in the coastal watersheds. The Plan identifies and describes a portfolio of areas that represent the best remaining opportunities to conserve the critical ecological, biological, and water resources of NH's coastal watersheds, and identifies and describes a set of voluntary regulatory land conservation strategies available for protecting these important areas. Where are the most significant areas for focusing conservation resources? Why are the areas so important? And how can communities conserve these areas?
Download Executive Summary "The Land Conservation Plan For New Hampshire’s Coastal Watersheds" (600 KB PDF)
Download complete Coastal Watershed Plan (268 pg, 28 MB PDF format)
Funding for this projects is generously provided by the New Hampshire Estuaries Project, New Hampshire Coastal Program, and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation's Piscataqua Region.
