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Regional planner urges county to pursue $25,000 transformative planning grant for housing on county land

Strafford County Commissioners · December 11, 2025
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Summary

SRPC regional planner Blair Haney urged Strafford County to apply for a $25,000 CDBG transformative planning grant to identify sites, infrastructure needs and permitting paths for housing projects (to position county land for future implementation grants).

Blair Haney, a regional planner with the Shopper Regional Planning Commission, told Strafford County commissioners the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program’s Transformative Planning Grant (TPG) can provide $25,000 to move county‑owned housing concepts toward implementable projects.

Haney said the TPG is intended to build a regional pipeline of shovel‑ready public‑sector housing projects that can later qualify for implementation…

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