Lots of tables and chairs exterior the Brick Market
June 20 − To the Editor:
I like all the pieces that Mark McNabb has developed within the metropolis. Big fan. I actually just like the Brick Market. It is a enjoyable mixture of artwork, neighborhood house, and up to date architectural options with distinctive colours and supplies. Last summer season it was my favourite place to have espresso, pastries and benefit from the nicely spaced, peaceable, outside tables and attention-grabbing sculptures.
This morning we walked to the Brick Market exterior the grounds between Penhallow and Pleasant Streets. Holy smokes and YIKES! I used to be stunned on the HUGE variety of tables and chairs obtainable right this moment. Too many, too intense, too shut to one another, too thorny and overwhelming. Doesn’t appear welcoming anymore (to me). When somebody leaves a chair misplaced or a canine and stroller on the highway, the trail is blocked. It fully takes away from the open and calming ambiance that the house could be. I like you Mark, however do you assume all of the seats can be found? (Sorry, that is what they used to say about parking garages). Just my opinion.
Cheri Bach
Portsmouth
Should historic buildings within the district actually be ‘preserved and guarded’ from photo voltaic panels?
June 18 − To the Editor:
The approval of 54 photo voltaic panels on Chapel Street subsequent to the Parish House of St. It is puzzling that this compromise nonetheless has its critics. Do historic buildings within the district actually should be “preserved and guarded” from photo voltaic panels? Black photo voltaic panels on black roofs are definitely not pleasing to the attention (personally, I discover them fairly cool).
Buildings designated as a part of a historic district proceed for use versus buildings which can be a part of a museum, similar to Strawberry Banke. The structure is preserved however such buildings even have seen electrical wires and asphalt tiles on the roof, which weren’t used within the nineteenth century or earlier, however each are used now on account of necessity. Our actual precedence is to protect life on the planet from the ever-increasing onset of the results of local weather change, and that additionally consists of preserving the historic district from submergence.
The St. John’s Portsmouth is joined by St. George’s Episcopal, Durham, Community Church of Durham, and different church buildings within the space to put in photo voltaic panels due to the sturdy feeling of being accountable stewards of our planet. The sooner we change to renewable vitality, the higher likelihood we’ve got of lowering the inevitable catastrophic impacts that may observe. It’s time for photo voltaic panels to be faraway from the purview of historic district commissions, HOAs, and every other our bodies that create pointless obstacles.
Phil Harford
Newmarket
Portsmouth confirmed a double customary
June 19 − To the Editor:
If the info in Sue Polidura’s letter to the editor revealed on June 18 are correct, then our City’s Legal Department is working on a double customary. According to Ms. Polidura, the City Council’s motion in transferring a few of the HDC’s energy to control photo voltaic panels within the Historic District to a member of the Planning Staff clearly violates town ordinance and the state regulation he cited. in phrases. Apparently the City Attorney didn’t attempt to advise the City Manager or the City Council that this motion was unlawful, and the councilors who proposed this plan and people who voted for a modified model of it didn’t face penalties.
But the identical City Attorney took motion to take away Planning Board member Jim Hewitt from his place for allegedly not totally following town’s casual, inside procedures. This is a blatant instance of an unacceptable double customary. It seems to be just like the City Attorney is apologizing to Jim Hewitt and town taxpayers, and he ought to severely take into account taking steps to right the doubtless unlawful state of affairs our City Council is in relating to HDC.
Christina Lusky
Portsmouth
Trump is barely responsible of being an important president
June 19 — To the Editor:
Trump is responsible of three issues. Defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016, exhibiting that the so-called elites who run this nation are corrupt imbeciles, in it just for themselves; and eventually, present the world that the USA has turn out to be a Banana Republic. We have all the time seemed with disdain at international locations the place leaders imprison their political opponents, which is what the Biden cabal is making an attempt to do to Trump. What occurred to profitable on the poll field?
Vote for the Dems for those who anticipate increased taxes, dearer gasoline and heating oil, excessive crime, and a gradual stream of unlawful immigrants. It is inevitable that Biden’s open border insurance policies will result in terrorist assault(s) in our nation.
Polls present the election to be a toss-up, which is tough to fathom given the harm attributable to Biden’s misguided insurance policies.
Is there something higher now than through the Trump administration?
Dave Bickford
Rye
President Biden helps New Hampshire residents instantly
June 21 −To the Editor:
Because he was prepared to patiently negotiate with the opposite social gathering, President Biden received a number of laws handed. New Hampshire is feeling the impression of those main legislative achievements.
For instance, Biden’s American Rescue Plan of 2021, is meant to speed up the county’s restoration from the financial and well being impacts of COVID. On its two-year anniversary, the outcomes for our state are clear.
This fueled a powerful restoration in New Hampshire with the unemployment charge falling from 4.2% in January 2021 to 2.9% in December 2022, and led to a file 28,000 new small enterprise purposes. within the state.
All 241 NH municipalities obtained direct funding to keep away from cuts and investments in public security, housing, workforce growth, and 150 School Districts obtained funding to assist educational restoration and psychological well being to the coed.
More than 590 NH Child Care Programs obtained assist to assist preserve their doorways open, impacting 43,000 NH kids, and the historic Child Tax Credit supplied tax aid benefiting an estimated 144,000 households there are 239,000 kids in NH.
Health care financial savings, rental help, monetary help for faculty college students and reasonably priced excessive velocity web for companies contribute to the restoration of our state.
Not resting there, President Biden is working with Republicans to move the long-term American Jobs Act to proceed rebuilding and rising the financial system and to protect the financial safety of the center class. With quick financial progress, a powerful labor market and low inflation, the US has outperformed its counterparts in Europe and elsewhere in these tough occasions all over the world.
Keep up the nice work, Joe!
Cynthia Muse
Rye
York committee to review short-term leases accredited earlier than vote
June 20 – To the Editor:
I’m writing so as to add an vital piece of data that was lacking from an article revealed in Seacoast on June 18th about forming a committee to review the way to regulate short-term leases in York.
The article gives the look that these supporting the regulation of short-term leases in York by some means received a second chunk on the apple, after failing by 241 votes out of three,817. I’ll clarify that those that opposed the ordinance on the May poll additionally proposed to type a committee. The following was included in marketing campaign materials despatched to voters by opponents:
“Our advice is to reject the proposed ordinance and create a committee of various stakeholders to create a extra knowledgeable strategy. metropolis. This can take the type of the primary registration of STRs, amassing a nominal charges and examine the impression of STRs to higher inform future insurance policies.
It appears to me that the Selectboard is doing precisely what the opponents of the May poll article on short-term rental rules requested the voters and the Selectboard to do.
Kirk Minnick
York
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