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Mike Kiess from Vital Communities has sent out a request for responses to a short survey set up by the VT Department of Housing and Community Development. The deadline’s short, …
Vital Communities-Zoning for Great Neighborhoods Survey Read MoreThe Current Use law in New Hampshire provides a tax break for certain property owners who choose not to change the “current use” of their property to a higher level …
What’s this thing called “Current Use”? Read MoreI was browsing around the Strong Towns web site, and came upon their criteria for measuring the strength and resilience of a town. They point out that full technical analysis …
Strong Towns “Strength Test” Read MoreOn 2 April 2019, I went to a talk sponsored by New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority in Claremont, NH. The announcement stated: What does it mean to be a “Strong …
Strong Towns – Breaking out of the Housing Trap Read MoreOn 4 October 2018, PlanNH and Vital Communities sponsored a talk titled, Can Accessory Dwelling Units Help Meet Our Region’s Housing Needs? at the Kilton Library, in West Lebanon NH. …
Can Accessory Dwelling Units Help Meet Our Region’s Housing Needs? Read MoreI use Jetpack Publicize to share my posts on Facebook and Twitter. This makes it easy to create a single WordPress post and have it show up on social media …
Jetpack Publicize: Setting the image and text shown on Twitter and Facebook Read MoreI have reworked my blog so that the primary domain name is “Random Neurons Firing” (instead of the pedestrian richb-hanover.com). Same content, but a better name. I’m also adding a …
RandomNeuronsFiring.com – now live! Read MoreOn May 3, 2019, I attended the Spring 2019 Business Leaders Housing Breakfast sponsored jointly by Vital Communities and Twin Pines Housing. Twice a year, these groups bring together a group …
Spring 2019 Business Leaders Housing Breakfast Read MoreOn March 19, 2019, the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority held its 2019 Homeownership Conference. Agenda is at: https://www.nhhfa.org/assets/pdf/HO_Conf_3-19_Agenda.pdf How can we get more homes built? How can we keep …
2019 Homeownership Conference – NHHFA Read MoreBackground: In March 2019, the Planning Board proposed an amendment to the Lyme Zoning Ordinance to modify the current Lot Size Averaging provision. I sent the following notes to the …
No on Lyme’s Article #2 Read More