Playground at Henry Law Park ( SRPC Photo)
Planning

During the week of Sept. 20, SRPC staffers drafted outreach materials for the Dover Recreation master plan. SRPC was chosen as the City's consultant in July, and the project kick-off meeting will be held next week. Outreach approaches proposed to the City include attendance at the October and November Art Walks, Dover Apple Harvest Day, and the downtown Trick or Treating event, in addition to creating online surveys. The content submitted to the city for review this week included a visual survey assessing preferences for public art in the city, a sticky dot poster to gather information on whether people have heard of and used different city parks, and a chalk board on which participants can respond to an open ended question. The steering committee will also be reviewing the materials at it first meeting. 
 
The outreach will occur in October, and the input will shape the chapter, planned to be completed in February. 
 
For more information contact  Kyle Pimental,  principal region planner, at 603-994-3500. 

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Transportation

Senior Transportation Planner Colin Lentz recently attended meetings to begin work on  Road Safety Audits  in Farmington, Barrington, and Rochester. Each community applied for federal funding to address local intersections where fatal and severe crashes have occurred within the past ten years. Each project will involve participation by the municipality, NHDOT, and a consultant. The project team will identify problems and the consultant will develop a set of potential solutions to be presented to the municipality. Local crash records play a critical role in developing potential projects to apply for funding. The success of recent applications from Strafford region communities has been due to good record keeping by police departments – Kudos! If you have an intersection that is a safety concern, click the link above and contact Colin Lentz for more information about how to get an application started. Most projects are 100% federally funded.  Applications are due every year by December 1 st .  

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Economic Development

The SRPC annual report was finalized on Wednesday, September 18. This annual publication documents activities of the Commission during the 2019 fiscal year. The report also serves as the Commissioner Handbook.  

Economic development projects covered in the report includes technical assistance to  Explore Moose Mountains , the  EPA Brownfields  program, facilitation of  Tri-City Transit  meetings, involvement in the  State's economic development ten-year plan , and Strafford Economic Development District's (EDD)  brownbag economic development lunch series . 

The report can be viewed online .
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Strafford Regional Planning Commission | 603-994-3500 | srpc@strafford.org | www.strafford.org
September 20, 2019