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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 to improve the quality of life for all of New Hampshire's communities. |
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Happy Spring! The NHPA Spring Professional Development Workshop held on April 22, 2010 was a success and featured an update of the legislative changes for planning and zoning, as well as a presentation on Plat Law Standards for Recording Plans. The PowerPoint presentation for legislative updates can be found here. During the workshop the membership approved 3 bylaw changes, found here . We would like to welcome Tim Corwin as our new NNECAPA Legislative Liaison and member of the NHPA Executive Committee. Tim is currently serving on the NHPA Legislative Committee and will serve as the NNECAPA Legislative Liaison until November when the annual elections are held for NHPA Executive Committee representatives. Julie LaBranche, as the State Director of NNECAPA, is busy organizing the 2010 NNECAPA conference for this fall. The dates are set for October 7th and 8th at the Portsmouth Harbor Conference Center in Portsmouth, NH. A Save the Date will be coming shortly. The COG (Conference Organizing Group) has been formed and is helping Julie plan and organize the event, but will continue to be open to new members who are interested in helping. Please contact Julie to let her know if you would like to join the COG (jlabranche@rpc-nh.org). Please read on for more great New Hampshire Planning information. |
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It’s spring and that means the NHPA Executive Committee is gearing up for its Spring Professional Development Session and the NHPA Planning Awards on April 22, 2010. No Annual Conference this spring you say? Stay tuned; NHPA is hosting this year’s fall NNECAPA conference. The NHPA executive committee has been working to prepare a new Strategic Plan. A draft is now available and we’d like to hear your comments. Are we moving in the right direction? Are there services you’d like us to include in our future planning? Resources we ought to be providing to the membership? Contact any member of the Executive Committee to pass on your thoughts. To view the proposed 2010 Strategic Plan visit: www.nhplanners.org. more.... |
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In February 2010, the Town of Epping welcomed a new staff member, Planner and Code Enforcement Officer Brittany Howard, a native of Auburn, New Hampshire. She holds a BA in Community Planning from the University of Connecticut and an MA in Community Planning and Development from the University of Southern Maine. Elizabeth Wood is now the Community Planner for the Town of Windham a municipality of roughly 15,000 citizens. Prior to working in Windham, she served as Associate Planner for the City of Sheridan, WY. One of her many career achievements was helping Sheridan receive the “Great Places in America Award 2008” from the American Planning Association (APA). Also while in Sheridan, she co-founded an organization called “hYPe” Helping Young Professionals Engage, a non-profit organization that recruits young workers and their families to the Sheridan area as a place to live, work, and play. Elizabeth was also designated one of Wyoming’s 2008 “Top 40-Under 40” by the Casper Star Tribune for my contributions as a young person to the Sate of Wyoming. |
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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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