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PORTSMOUTH – Residents who participated in a special City Council meeting on the proposed redesign plan for the Thomas J. McIntyre Federal Building property Tuesday were almost evenly split on whether they liked the proposal.
Bow Street resident Mike Casino called what has been described as the market pavilion or shed design for the 2.1-acre site “absolutely phenomenal.”
“If we could have something built like this in the downtown it would represent an iconic piece of architecture that would become a signature image for the city,” he said during Tuesday’s special council Zoom video conference meeting.
He stated that the proposed design is “the type of development that Portsmouth deserves,” that provides a “meaningful amount” of public, open and gathering space.
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Kittredge: Why is Portsmouth staff siding with developers over taxpayers?
Clare Kittredge
When 150 upset neighbors and residents show up en masse to voice their displeasure with a development project as they did last Saturday on the banks of the North Mill Pond, yet Portsmouth’s city planning staffers enthusiastically advocate for the project, something is wrong. And these city staffers are not looking out for the best interests of the taxpayers who have strongly expressed their views. So I found it shocking to watch Portsmouth city planning staffers openly campaign this week (April 15) for the Planning Board to grant a massive North Mill Pond development a special exception to encroach on the city’s vanishing 100 foot wetland buffer.