Portsmouth Councilors Could Double Parking Ticket Fines
Parking ticket fines could more than double under a proposal coming before Portsmouth city councilors Monday night.
Tickets for an expired parking meter in Portsmouth currently cost $15. The proposed change now under consideration would raise the fee to $35 for each offense.
Councilor Peter Whelan, who chairs the city’s Parking and Traffic Safety Committee, said downtown parking utilization is approaching 100 percent. The proposed fee change is intended to promote turnover among limited on-street parking close to shops and restaurants.
Further, he said, many motorists are willing to pay parking tickets because after four hours the ticket actually costs less than feeding the meter.
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.
The fireworks celebration has been scheduled for July 3, 2021 with a rain date of July 5.
“The difference this year is there will be no entertainment, there will be no food and no vendors so as to discourage gathering,” City Manager Karen Conard said Monday. “But we will close down Junkins and Parrott avenues to vehicular traffic and we will have the big display that I understand we’ve had on years past.”
The City Council voted unanimously Monday to approve holding the July 3 fireworks event.
City Councilor Paige Trace made the motion to hold the celebration during Monday’s City Council meeting, stating “it’s time.”
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PORTSMOUTH – Members of the Pease Community Assistance Panel will be putting up lawn signs and distributing brochures on Saturday to boost enrollment in the first federal health study on adults and children exposed to dangerous PFAS chemicals.
Pease CAP member Andrea Amico said the volunteers are participating in the initiative to “raise awareness about the health study and hopefully increase enrollment in it.”
Amico, who co-founded the Testing For Pease community activist group, stressed how important it is for adults – and their children – to participate in the study.
“We can’t undo our exposure and we can’t change how we might be affected by that, but we can learn from this situation and we can contribute to the science on health effects,” Amico said. “The study is important not only for our Pease community, but also to millions of Americans across the country who are dealing with the same contamination but don’t have the opportunity to be part of a health