May 11, 2013
 

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, April 30, 2013

OEP’S 19TH Annual Spring Planning and Zoning Conference

The Radisson Hotel, Manchester, NH

Cost: $60 per person - Cost includes full conference participation, breakfast and lunch.

This year’s conference will feature:

    Basics for Planning and Zoning Boards
    Legal Update
    A Granite State Future: Planning Your Region’s Future
    Community Outreach and Engagement
    Promoting Floodplain Management
    Planning for the 21st Century

And more . . . 

Click here to register and for additional conference details

Or contact Michele Zydel at 271-2155; email: michele.zydel@nh.gov

SUBMIT YOUR REGISTRATION EARLY - SESSIONS FILL QUICKLY

May 14-16, 2013

UNH Geospatial Technologies Training Center: 

May 28, 2013

Greening Your Conservation/Cluster/Open Space Subdivision Ordinance Workshop

Mather Auditorium Wells Reserve

5:00 – 8:00 PM
Cost: $10 dinner included

3.0 AICP CM credits pending

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Workshop Overview:
• Does the Conservation Subdivision Ordinance in your town successfully conserve high value open space?
• Are you seeking ideas to improve it?

This interactive workshop offers municipal staff, boards and others ideas to enhance project design success to maximize the conservation of high value open space in conjunction with housing that offers a high quality of life.  

The workshop is not intended to present the basics of conservation subdivisions and the ordinances that govern their development; but rather, builds on the basics of these ordinances to present ideas for updates that could be used with existing ordinances as well as alternative approaches.  

Resources available to municipalities at no or low cost will also be summarized.

Presenters include:
• Southern Maine Regional Planning Commission
• Town of Falmouth
• Town of Brunswick
• Beginning with Habitat

Target Audience:
• Municipal Staff 
• Municipal Boards (Planning, Conservation, Open Space)
• Land Trusts
• Environmental Resource Professionals

June 8, 2013

Project Design and Evaluation for Restoration 

8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Mather Auditorium, Wells Reserve 
Cost: $20 lunch included

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Have you ever implemented a restoration project that didn't quite meet its intended outcomes? (Be honest!) This interactive, full-day workshop was developed by the NOAA Coastal Services Center offers restoration practitioners valuable knowledge, skills, and tools to enhance your ability to design targeted projects that have a greater chance of achieving success. The workshop is not intended to present basic components of restoration planning, but rather a planning framework, using the logic model, that will increase project success. The approach is applicable to any habitat type.  

• How do I measure the effectiveness of my restoration efforts?
• How do I increase the chance my projects will have the expected impact and reach the right audience?

If you have ever asked yourself these questions, this course is for you!

Target Audience
• Restoration practitioners
• Land managers
• Resource professionals
• Local officials and municipal boards
• Environmental organizations

June 10-11, 2013

CALL NOW TO REGISTER, PROGRAM BEGINS JUNE 10th!
(603) 230-4022

Training for Business and Industry Brownfields Redevelopment Two-Day Course

Course Objective: To introduce students to the history and culture of industrial development and its environmental impacts. Students will gain an understanding of the market for adaptive reuse of industrial sites and how to mitigate negative market conditions. The environmental assessment and brownfield remediation process as a critical element in reuse and redevelopment of industrial sites will be explored.  Additional topics to be covered include:

     - integrated community regeneration and strategic planning as transformative processes

     - the project development process; local conditions, opportunities, issues and needs 

     - funding sources and grant programs for local development projects 

Price: $275

Time: 8:00 am to 4:00 pm

INSTRUCTOR: Preston Gilbert, Director of Community Redevelopment at SUNY ESF

Preston Gilbert is a Civic Entrepreneur and organizational change agent.  As a public / nonprofit investment / development professional he applies his skills and experience to analyze and interpret challenging community and organizational conditions, while applying a creative eye to opportunities that will transform institutions and places. In the last 40 years he has served as a local planner, consultant, regional planning director (in NH), federal lobbyist, and presently as the director of a university research center focused on the challenges of urban redevelopment; he has worked representing communities ranging in size from Harts Location in NH to New York City.  During this time he has written plans for and funded $600 million dollars of publicly funded improvements. These improvements included urban and village scale redevelopment projects, adaptive reuse projects, technology development initiatives, internal exchange and networking of redevelopment expertise, commercialization plans, brownfield area redevelopment plans and strategies, superfund site reuse plans and urban reinvestment strategies.  

NHTI, Concord's Community College, Business Training Center
31 College Drive, Concord, NH 03301
nhtibtc@ccsnh.edu
www.nhti.edu/businesstraining

June 27, 2013

9th Annual NH Emergency Preparedness Conference 

Radisson Hotel, Manchester, NH

There is no cost to attend this event!

What is the NH Emergency Preparedness Conference?
The NH Emergency Preparedness Conference is an annual event that brings together over 500 emergency responders from across the state to explore a wide spectrum of emergency management topics using an all hazards approach. 

Who should attend?
The conference provides excellent opportunities for training and networking with local experts and practitioners from fields such as Emergency Management, Public Health, Fire, EMS, Law Enforcement, Business, Healthcare, Local Government, Public Works, Schools, Social Services, Volunteer groups and more. 

What are this year’s topics?
View the agenda and sessions at www.NHEmergencyPrepConference.com. There are over 30 sessions to choose from!

We are searching for the recipient of the 2013 Most Valuable Partner Award!
Do you know an individual, organization or regional planning group in New Hampshire that reaches beyond traditional working relationships and job responsibilities to strengthen preparedness and response capacity? This is their chance to earn the recognition they deserve! Nominate them for the Most Valuable Partner Award. Visit www.nhemergencyprepconference.com/MVP_Award.html for criteria and nomination information. (this award is formerly known as the Stovepipe Award)

Exhibitor Opportunities are still available

There are a limited number of exhibitor opportunities still available. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to visit with over 500 people. For details, visit http://www.nhemergencyprepconference.com/Exhibitor_Opportunities.html

For questions or more information, please contact Lori Walter at 603.573.3306 or EPConference@jsi.com.