HB332

This bill makes good sense and would provide an efficient and effective approach for the lake-friendly management of the landscape and activities around that lake. The local residents would benefit from programs and support offered, helping them manage their property in a lake-friendly way and protecting their investment along the lake.

Many lakes have several towns with jurisdiction over the lakefront and lake body. This bill will help lakes to have one governing body which would be helpful for the health of all lakes.

This would allow adjacent towns to efficiently join together to protect our lakes.

Please vote yes to help protect NH water resources.

Promotes lake health !

It is imperative that towns be able to work together on common issues such as the health of our watershed. We all rise and fall together and solutions must be sought in cooperation with one another. Please support this commonsense method of keeping our watershed healthy.

Having an entity that could help the towns surrounding Lake Sunapee all agree on how to best protect and use this precious resource would be an invaluable asset and could be an effiicient and effective resource for these communities, giving us a way to work together. Thank you.

Having one governing body in an area around a lake dedicated to and responsible for protecting and improving lake health would result in more efficient and effective approaches for the lake-friendly management of the landscape and activities around the lake. A special village district around the lake would also take the burden off of individual town governments for lake protection and provide consistent regulations around lakes that span multiple towns. Residents would benefit from special programs and technical support offered throughout the district, helping them manage their property in a lake-friendly way and protecting their investment along the lake.

Larger lakes will have an easier time protecting the lake waters, as several towns may surround the lake.

We need to apply all reasonable strategies to protect and improve the quality of water in our state. Creating village districts to protect and remediate surface waters will enable some communities to apply best practices.

Dear Committee Members, I am a resident of Webster, NH and also represent the Lake Winnepocket Lake Association. I strongly support this bill to allow a mechanism for multiple townships sharing common resources (for example, a body of water) to be able to set policy or impose restrictions that would benefit the entire community and protect that resource. This bill is important because: Having one governing body in an area around a lake dedicated to and responsible for protecting and improving lake health would result in more efficient and effective approaches for the lake-friendly management of the landscape and activities around that lake. Having a special village district around the lake would take the burden off of individual town governments for lake protection. The establishment of consistent regulations around lakes that span multiple towns would reduce confusion for residents about setbacks and permitted activities. Residents would benefit from special programs and technical support offered throughout the district, helping them manage their property in a lake-friendly way and protecting their investment along the lake Alan Kono, MD Webster, NH

I support this Bill to allow coordinated control of regulations for a district surrounding a lake.

As president of the Contoocook Lake Area Preservation Association (CLAPA), I am writing on behalf of our organization in support of this bill. CLAPA is a 150-member voluntary association dedicated to preserving and protecting the health and beauty of our lake. Our members are from both Jafrey and Rindge. Contoocook is surrounded by Jaffrey and Rindge, and as such we could benefit from the opportunity to better coordinate our town's efforts to protect our lake.

This seems like a no-brainer! Why not find a better way for towns to coordinate?

Importantly, this bill does not add to the budget. Control of lakes and wetlands is limited by the physical nature of the bodies of water - they normally touch multiple municipalities. Allowing like minded municipalities to band together will enhance the effectiveness of any effort to improve water quality.

Local control of our water resources hopefully will assure their viability.

For Winnipesaukee and other lakes that are in multiple jurisdictions, this would seem a logical way to protect water quality.

Most of NH's lakes are bordered by several towns -- sometimes many different towns for larger lakes. Being able to form a Village District among those several towns would enable those towns to manage their lakefronts in a consistent manner and would help educate all residents on preserving the lake's qualities. Creating a Village District would greatly enhance management of water quality among all the surrounding towns.

I'd love to purchase this license plate! I'm very much in support of this bill.

Having one governing body in an area around a lake dedicated to and responsible for protecting and improving lake health would result in more efficient and effective approaches for the lake-friendly management of the landscape and activities around that lake.

It enables multiple municipalities surrounding a lake to form a village district in an area around the lake to protect and restore lake health. Unlike a general town government, a village district is a special, limited-purpose form of government established to address a particular need within a community. HB332 is important because even small lakes like Goose Pond in Hanover where I live is shared by Canaan and Hanover. The establishment of consistent regulations around lakes that span multiple towns would reduce confusion for residents about setbacks and permitted activities. Residents would benefit from special programs and technical support offered throughout the district, helping them manage their property in a lake-friendly way and protecting their investment along the lake.

I support this bill because I think creating a special district would give the people who live by the lake some power over what happens to the lake and power to make decisions about its welfare and reduce the responsibility of taking individual actions to protect it.

We need ONE governing body and regulations to ensure the health of our lakes and streams.