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Portsmouth manager previews $30M in carryover, public hearings and a new small-business loan program
Summary
City manager outlined 19 items in the city-manager report including two public hearings (Chesapeake Preservation Area overlay amendment and a Fairview use-permit for a proposed treatment facility), listed budget amendment requests totaling tens of millions, and council liaison reported a new EDA small-business loan program seeded with $250,000.
City Manager Carter used the Nov. 25 work session to preview items the council will consider under the city manager's report, including two public hearings and a large set of ordinances and resolutions.
Carter said the proposed Chesapeake Preservation Area overlay district amendment would align local ordinance with state requirements by incorporating climate-change and sea-level-rise assessments into reviews of projects in resource-protection areas; the planning commission recommended approval. He also announced a use-permit public hearing in the Fairview neighborhood for a proposed drug-and-alcohol treatment facility on Royal Street; the planning commission recommended denial for that application and the public…
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