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PLANNING
On Wednesday, Jun. 15, four SRPC staff attended the 2022 New Hampshire Planners Association (NHPA) Spring Conference, "Places for Everyone."
The conference led with an energetic and insightful keynote from Anthony Poore on the "Role of Trust, Relationships & Vulnerability in Building Places for Everyone.”
Subsequent session 1 presentations highlighted 2022 land use updates with the NH Municipal Association's Natch Greyes and zonings racist legacies and how they can be ended, with former Director of Planning and Community Development for the Town of Arlington, MA, Jennifer Raitt.
Session 2 included two presentations on “Navigating Outdoor Opportunities in Downtown” and “Housing, Homes, and a Roadmap for Engagement.” Beverly Mesa-Zendt, the Planning Director for the City of Portsmouth, presented with Anne Weidman of Access Navigators on the logistics behind outdoor dining and accessibility in Portsmouth's downtown. The other tract for session two was facilitated by OPD's Noah Hodgetts, and expertise was shared concerning planning for housing by Angela Pape, Olivia Uyizeye and Kaela Tavares.
Following the sessions, NHPA presented its annual awards to the following individuals:
- City of Manchester for its Master Plan (Plan of the Year)
- Strafford Regional Planning Commission for its Promoting Outdoor Play! project (Project of the Year)
- Charlie King from Farmington (Citizen Planner of the Year)
- Diane Hardy, AICP and Ross A. Moldoff, AICP (Jeffery H. Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award)
Carlos Baia, Deputy City Manager for Development for the City of Concord, closed out the meeting with a plenary on Concord's successful downtown revitalization project.
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