Wind turbine. We've been waiting on a resolution for that issue for quite a while.

Review the Special Use Ordinance. Either eliminate it, or increase the lot size.
Portsmouth is in dire need of income from commercial & ligh industrial land.
We learned two years ago, we have $3.6 Billion in residential real estate assessment & $243 Million in commercial real estate assessment. The Special Use Ordinance criteria includes a trip to the Design Review Board, then the Planning Board & finally the Board of Review. Then the ordinance allows the Solicitor 30 additional days from the Board of Review meeting to write the decison. Once the decison letter is in hand it must be recorded, and then the 20 day appeal time clock begins. With our State Budget always millions short, we must provide more security by way of commercial tax dollars to increase our Town's income, before we learn State Aid is being further reduced. Government cost never go down, It always cost more, even with budget cuts. Balancing our budget is harder every year, & it doesn't matter which political party is at the helm. Cuts only go so far, increasing income will do more.
Creating jobs will be a definite benefit. It starts with reviewing the Special Use Ordinance on commercial & light industrial properties and making the appropriate changes to fast track commercial development.

How about a vision for the town. How to make Portsmouth an affordable place to live and raise a family. You can't keep raising taxes EVERY year, find a way to live within your means.

So if you lost a job, haven't gotten a raise in years or are elderly living on a fixed income, you must be affluent because you live in Portsmouth. Instead of comparing Portsmouth to other overtaxed RI towns, why don't you compare us to the rest of the country. We are in the top five states for citizens with the highest tax burdens. To make matters worse, Portsmouth doesn't offer any services. Now we get charged for a sticker to take our own garbage to the transfer station. They can't even keep that cost under control, raising the fee EVERY year.

Septic systems continue to be a hide and seek topic. The town council hides from the DEM and seeks alternate resolution which never makes sense so they continue on the circle of hiding from the topic while the people that are impacted seek for answers.

Bob P. – commend your composting efforts. If everyone home composted it would make a big dent in the load at the transfer station. Composting on a municipal scale would require several acres and have to meet extensive DEM regulations. We just don’t have the room at the current transfer station.

Pension reform. Without it all funding will be sucked into this fund and there will be nothing left for anything else. The pension report is on the town website, Seveney is resisting it because he made promises to the unions over the taxpayers. Taxpayers need to give him a firm push on this. Resident with watchfull Eye, great point as well. That is the first really great idea i have seen come from you. Good work.

At least two wind turbine requests for proposals (RFP) have been issued by the Town of Portsmouth . One during August called RFP P13-003 and another during December called RFP P13-007.

At what point will the Select Board expedite their process for deciding what should be done with the town-owned wind turbine ?

Updating the town comprehensive community plan.