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Members of the Explore Moose Mountains (EMM) Committee |
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Planning
Strafford Regional Planning Commission (SRPC) recently completed its work with Dover on the city's climate adaptation master plan chapter, Planning Today for a Resilient Tomorrow. The document is still awaiting adoption and will be brought before the Planning Board at a public hearing during its meeting on Tuesday,
Feb. 27, at 7 p.m.
The chapter was developed by a steering committee of Dover residents, with staff support from the Dover planning department, SRPC, UNH Cooperative Extension, and NH Sea Grant. Public input on the chapter was provided by 28 participants in a workshop last October, as well as 155 respondents to an online survey.
The final draft of the master plan chapter can be found
here
. Copies will also be available at the planning department in City Hall and at the public library.
City staff will briefly present the chapter to the Planning Board at the Feb. 27 meeting. Following the public hearing, the Planning Board will consider adopting the chapter into the City's Master Plan. In addition to attending the public hearing, interested members of the public can submit questions and comments to Dave Carpenter, Dover's community development planner, at
d.carpenter@dover.nh.gov
or 603-516-6008.
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Transportation
This week transportation planner Colin Lentz and Nancy O' Connor met with the Somersworth Police Department to talk about crash reporting and data. They wanted to learn about challenges faced by local police departments and to discuss how safety data contributes to local and regional planning.
Ultimately, data from the local level helps regional planning commissions and municipalities develop projects and apply for funding (such as the upcoming project at Blackwater Road and Old Rochester Road).
Colin, Nancy,and the police discussed how the department maps crashes, what methods they use to pinpoint locations, and how daily operations at the police department are informed by crash data. They also discussed how data is used to improve community safety; what challenges police face in sharing data with other regional agencies, including other police departments; and how Strafford Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) may be able to help.
Now that the Federal highway Administration has mandated that MPOs must adopt targets for performance measures, Strafford MPO is examining regional data in a new way and has met some challenges with consistency. This is an opportunity to work with others throughout the region to learn more about how we report and to advocate for progress.
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Economic Development
Communications and outreach specialist Shayna Sylvia attended the Explore Moose Mountains meeting on Monday, Feb. 15. The
Explore Moose Mountains
(EMM) group is a grassroots initiative that began in 2014 and covers seven towns, including Brookfield, Milton, Middleton, New Durham, Farmington, Wolfeboro, and Wakefield. EMM's goal is to attract vacationers, tourists, local people, and others to the region to explore our recreational opportunities, dinning, lodging, farm stands, museums and so much more.
The group has begun strategic planning related to future endeavors including how the current Branch River Valley (BRV) Scenic Byway could be integrated into the larger EMM effort. The BRV Scenic Byway Committee met during the week of Feb. 19 to discuss the same idea and other issues pertaining to the byway. This could be an important opportunity for crossover and leveraging between these two programs.
If the two efforts were integrated, products like the
story map
Strafford Economic Development District staffers are drafting could be used by both EMM and the byway committee. Potential products and outcomes of this integration will be explored in the coming months.
To learn more about EMM, visit:
To learn more about the BRV Scenic Byway, visit:
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