Group photo during the tour of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on Jan. 17. (
Photo Courtesy of Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission)
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On Tuesday, Jan. 15, principal regional planner Kyle Pimental met with the Durham Leadership Team to discuss its climate remembrance project. This was the second meeting of the committee, which is working on using artwork and other visual media to educate the public on the effects of climate change. The team’s project is modeled on one in Massachusetts, where signs indicate where future events are likely to happen due to climate change. For example, "First time flood waters from storm
surge
spread inland to this spot — December 17, 2070."
In earlier meetings, the Durham team began identifying locations for its displays and drafting text to go along with the markers. On Tuesday, the group completed a sticky dot exercise in which members picked their top three concepts, reducing to 10 the more than 20 ideas generated by the committee in December. In future meetings the group will finalize the locations and appearance of the markers to be installed in Durham.
Partners with Durham on this project include UNH Cooperative Extension/NH SeaGrant, represented by climate adaptation program manager Lisa Wise, and Amanda Stone, natural resources & land conservation state specialist at UNH Extension.
Contact
Kyle Pimental
at 603-994-3500 for more information on the project.
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On Monday, Jan. 14, Strafford Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) released its draft 2019–202
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Transportation Improvement
Program
(TIP) and an updated version of the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) that includes the new TIP. The public comment period for these documents will run until Thursday, Feb. 14, and a public hearing will be held the following day during the
Stafford MPO Policy Committee meeting
.
The TIP, which is updated biennially, is a list of regional transportation projects funded by the state and federal governments to be completed over the next four years. Projects that receive federal funding are first developed in the MTP. From there they move into the state’s Ten Year Plan, and finally into the TIP. To move from the Ten Year Plan into the TIP, projects must be fully developed with engineering scopes of work and cost estimates.
The combined draft TIP and updated MTP can be found
on the
SRPC website
. Printed copies are available at the libraries and city halls in Dover, Rochester, and Somersworth; at the Rochester Community Center; the senior centers in Dover and Rochester; and at the Dover Adult Learning Center. Comments may be submitted via
email
,
phone, mail, or fax
.
Contact
Colin Lentz
. senior transportation planner, at 603-994-3500 with any questions.
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On Tuesday, Jan. 17, staffers from SRPC, the Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission (SMPDC), and the town of Kittery, Maine, joined representatives of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) on a tour of the base to see its parking challenges firsthand.
The tour was part of a joint land use study focused on the town and PSNY in anticipation of sustained federal investments that will increase the PSNY workforce by one-third over the next 10 years. PSNY has partnered with SMPDC to complete the study, and SRPC is participating on a technical subcommittee. Jen Czysz, SRPC executive director, and Colin Lentz, senior transportation planner, attended this week’s meeting and tour.
The land use study will continue over the next 14 months. Project outcomes will include recommendations regarding on-base parking and transportation issues, and potential land use and congestion impacts in Kittery as PSNY adds approximately 2,000 jobs to its current 6,000. Contact
Colin Lentz at 603-994-3500 for more information about the joint land use study.
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