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Site of the Somersworth Farmer's Market at Goodwin Community Health
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Planning
Supported by funding from the state's 2018 Coastal Zone Program, SRPC principal regional planner Kyle Pimental is partnering with Geosyntec Consultants and the University of New Hampshire to develop new inundation maps for the Town of Lee.
This project will build off a 2014 effort in which an ad-hoc working group and SRPC staffers undertook a comprehensive review of floodplain data developed as part of the "Assessing Flood Risk in the Lamprey River Watershed" report. Geosyntec, in collaboration with UNH, will prepare planning-level inundation maps for the main stems of the Lamprey, North, Little, and Oyster rivers in Lee. SRPC will work with the town's planning board and the planning/zoning and health administrator to draft amendments to the town's current Floodplain Ordinance that will incorporate the new floodplain data to help strengthen floodplain management for future storms.
The project kick-off meeting with the planning board is scheduled for Thursday, May 10, at the Public Safety Building from 7 - 8 p.m.
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Transportation
Stefanie Casella, data collection and analysis assistant, and Rachel Dewey, data analyst, attended NH DOT's traffic count kickoff meeting on Tuesday, Apr.17. Transportation staffers from each regional planning commission attended to discuss best practices and reporting structure for the 2018 traffic count season.
During the meeting NHDOT revealed the MS2 website, which NHDOT, RPC staffers, private organizations, and the public will use to view and analyze traffic count data. The website will replace the PDF reports that NHDOT has published at the end of each year.
Traffic count season begins in May. Communities can still request supplemental counts for local projects between May and September.
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Economic Development
Communications and outreach specialist Shayna Sylvia attended the Somersworth Farmer's Market meeting at Goodwin Community Health on Wednesday, Apr. 18. The meeting focused on the upcoming start of the market's fourth season, which begins Monday, June 4.
The market is located at Goodwin Community Health off Route 108 and runs from 3 to 6 p.m. every Monday into September. Vendors sell baked goods, produce, and crafts. They are joined by a musician each week, and cooking demonstrations are held on the second Monday of each month (3:30 - 4:00 p.m. or 5:15-5:45 p.m.) with the awesome perk that attendees get a free $10 voucher for the market.
Unlike in past years, no vendor fee will be charged this year. Anyone interested in becoming a vendor can contact Corinna Moskal at
cmoskal@goodwinch.org
or at 603-994-6357.
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