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Commissioners agree to back CDBG planning grant to update statewide zoning "Atlas" for public outreach
Summary
Strafford County commissioners agreed to support a joint application with the Strafford Regional Planning Commission and Saint Anson College’s Initiative for Housing Policy and Practice to apply for a $25,000 CDBG planning grant to update a statewide zoning Atlas and use it as a public-engagement tool.
Strafford County commissioners agreed to support a joint application to the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) planning program to update a statewide zoning “Atlas” and use it as a public outreach tool.
Alyssa Margolin, director of the Initiative for Housing Policy and Practice at Saint Anson College, told the commissioners the Atlas catalogs zoning across the state and is being updated for 2025: “we have an Atlas. It is, 269 jurisdictions in all 234 municipalities … the entire land mass of the state has been, researched, cataloged, and portrayed.”
The nut of the pitch was that the Atlas—an online compilation of municipal zoning—could be made…
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