Public Comment Period: Draft 2025-2028 TIP & 2025-2050 MTP

Notice of Public Comment Period & Public Hearing

Strafford Regional Planning Commission

Draft 2025-2028 Transportation Improvement Program & 2025 – 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan

The Strafford Regional Planning Commission, functioning as the federally mandated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), is holding a public comment period and public hearing on the draft 2025 – 2028 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) and concurrent draft updates to the 2025 – 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan. The TIP is a prioritized list of federal and state funded transportation projects programmed for the Strafford region. Strafford Regional Planning Commission is conducting this process in accordance with Strafford MPO’s Public Involvement Procedures and federal and state regulations.

As of July 20^th, 2013, all of New Hampshire is in unclassifiable/attainment for the 2008 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard, also known as the 2008 Ozone Standard; the 1997 8-Hour Ozone NAAQS (the 1997 ozone standard) is revoked for transportation conformity purposes in the Boston-Manchester-Portsmouth NH area.

A thirty-day public comment period for these documents begins on Thursday, February 20, 2025 and runs through Friday, March 21, 2025. A public hearing has been scheduled for Friday, March 21, 2025 at 9AM at a meeting of the Strafford RPC Commissioners. This meeting is being held in accordance with the Strafford MPO Public Participation Plan and state requirements. Interested parties can participate and submit comments at the hearing as follows:

• In Person at the SRPC office (address below) or
• Online/Telephonically via Zoom:
  • https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85802372877
  • Meeting ID: 858 0237 2877
  • Telephone-only Access: 1-646-558-8656

If anybody has a problem accessing the meeting or needs special arrangements, please email clentz@strafford.org or phone 603-994-3500. The documents are available on the SRPC website (strafford.org) and the Rochester, Somersworth, and Dover Public libraries. Copies can be sent to interested parties upon request.

Comments can be sent via mail, email, and fax to the following:

Colin Lentz, Principal Transportation Planner                   Phone:       603-994-3500

Strafford Regional Planning Commission                          Fax:           603-994-3504

150 Wakefield Street, Suite 12                                            Email:        clentz@strafford.org

Rochester NH 03867                                                         Website:    www.strafford.org