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The New Hampshire Planners Association serves the state’s planning community by providing information on current events, articles and opinions, current legislative initiatives, and news about planners around the state, as well as links to many resources. Please feel free to submit articles and opinions, tell us what's happening with you or your community, and tell us of a planning event that you have not found on this site. Let's work together
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The Legislative sub-committee for the 2011/2012 session has been formed and is gearing up for the upcoming Legislative Season. Please see the NHPA Legislative Tracker page for the 2012 NHPA Priority LSRs and if you are interested in joining the sub-committee let us know!
Mark your calendars for the 2012 NHPA Annual Conference, on May 10th and 11th in downtown Concord, NH. The COG (Conference Organizing Group) is hard at work under the attentive eye of its Chair, Ben Frost, to bring you a comprehensive professional development opportunity. If you are interested in helping please contact Ben to let him know (bfrost@nhhfa.org).
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Happy Holidays! It has been an exciting year and with the New Year approaching NHPA has some new faces. The Executive Committee would like to say thank you and farewell to Mikeala Stroop (Engert) and to Julie Labranche, both will be missed! Jennifer Czysz will continue to serve on the Executive Committee in her new role as the NH State Director for NNECAPA. Our two new members include Tara Germond of Southwest Regional Planning Commission and Meena Gyawali, from the Community Development Finance Authority. The changes to members and positions in the Executive Committee can be found under “Executive Committee.” |
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City of Lebanon Planning Director, Ken Niemczyk, retires. more...
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 Green Infrastructure: Smart Conservation for the 21st Century
“Oliver Wendall Holmes said that “to live fully is to be engaged in the passions of one’s time.” Clearly land conservation is one of the passions of our time. Over the past few years, poll after poll and ballot measure after ballot measure have demonstrated Americans’ support for land conservation. However, we need new approaches to land conservation to address the accelerating rate at which land is being developed.
In the 1970s, when we began working in the conservation movement, conservation organizations worked to protect individual parcels of land. Today we realize that we must protect networks of open space. Still, too many land conservation efforts are haphazard and reactive in nature. They deal with whatever comes over the transom. The result is haphazard conservation and haphazard development. more.....
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