Planning Event of Interest: Permit Streamlining Training Webinar for Electric Vehicle Charging Station (EVSE) Installations
Is your community welcoming Electric Vehicles (EV) and charging stations? In New Hampshire, EV sales increased more than 25% from 2018 to 2019, a trend expected to continue as new models are made available. Automakers, private industry, and states are driving forward with efforts to electrify transportation and travel. For NH communities, these investments can be stymied by delays or confusion associated with local permitting requirements. Is your community ready to issue permits for charging stations? Are your Code Enforcement Officers up to speed on the basics of EVs including the different types of charging? Is your town making it as simple and low cost as possible for homeowners and businesses to install charging stations? 

Hosted by SRPC and presented by Jessica Wilcox, Granite State Clean Cities Coordinator at the NH Department of Environmental Services, and James Penfold, Co-founder of EV LaunchPad, an EV charging station supplier and installer, this special online training will walk you through practical planning and permitting best practices to help you position your town or city for EV infrastructure investments! 

View the invitation here. Register online.
Planning Event of Interest: SRPC's ArcGIS Online Mapping Tutorials
Join SRPC GIS Planner Jackson Rand for a demonstration of SRPC's new ArcOnline mapping tools. Starting with a review of SRPC's ArcOnline homepage, Jackson will explain how to use the new online and interactive Standard Maps, Open Data Portal, and Tax Parcel Viewer (the replacement for SRPC's prior MapGeo platform). Jackson will then lead participants through an exercise to create their own floodplain map for the regional community of their choosing using SRPC's ArcOnline tools.

This tutorial will take place at two different times, offering flexibility with work and board meeting schedules for those interested. These dates have been updated since previously being released in SRPC's October Planning Board Update publication.

The sessions will be held on:

Monday, Nov. 23, from 3-4:30 p.m. - Register here.
Wednesday, Dec. 2 from 6-7:30 p.m. - Register here.

These sessions will also be recorded for those unable to attend in-person.

Contact Shayna Sylvia, communications and outreach planner with any questions at srpc@strafford.org.
Planning Event of Interest: The 2020 Virtual Greater Seacoast Housing Summit: The Future of Housing
Join the Workforce Housing Coalition of the Greater Seacoast (WHC), with presenting sponsor Cambridge Trust and partners Seacoast Chamber Alliance and the NH Department of Business and Economic Affairs, for the 2020 Virtual Housing Summit. Moderated by the WHC Executive Director Sarah Wrightsman, panelists will address the lack of affordable workforce housing that has long been problematic through the Seacoast, how the coronavirus epidemic has impacted workforce housing, and the overall future of housing in the Greater Seacoast.

Learn more from the event flyer.

Register here.
In Case You Missed It: 2020 Land Use Law Conference
The 2020 Land Use Law Conference, formally known as the Municipal Law Lecture Series, will take place on Saturday, Oct. 31 from 8:45 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

There are four sessions built into this virtual event, with multiple presentations to choose from per session. Topics include master planning, planning board basics, short-term rentals, workforce housing challenges and solutions, legal updates, meeting conflict resolution, small town planning, and many others.

You can register, or learn more online.
Strafford Regional Planning Commission | 603-994-3500 | srpc@strafford.org| www.strafford.org
October 23, 2020