Recent comments in /f/newhampshire

ANewMachine615 t1_ja5uaob wrote

Yeah, Manch has a ways to go. I'm in downtown Dover now, and good Lord it's gotta be the best "big little city" in New Hampshire, by a country mile. But Manch's new city plan was quite good. Here's hoping the fact that commuter rail will never happen doesn't kill the whole thing.

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Irishbangers14 t1_ja5the8 wrote

I’m not against the building by any means , I’m more saying I hope it brings about a change in the look of downtowns infrastructure, I’m not familiar with this building tbh. I grew up in Nashua ca. 2000s -2010s the last time I visited downtown I was upset with the look (Jersey barriers everywhere with weird graffiti) it looked to me like a very stretch of an attempt to look “artsy”. However a change to something more modern/contemporary of this nature is welcomed by myself . Not that my downtown is much more pleasant ( Manchester)

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aredubya t1_ja5tgb7 wrote

Morons have already started such proposals, in the Moron State of Florida. Indeed, the GOP-dominated legislature passed a bill that would have reduced "net metering" to save the state power monopoly from having to pay as much (or at all) for home solar power fed back to the grid. DeSantis vetoed it last April, but only after a groundswell of conservative voters rebelling. https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2022/05/10/panhandles-anger-over-fpl-may-have-helped-spur-desantis-veto-of-anti-solar-bill/

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gweased_pig t1_ja5t6e0 wrote

State law trumps town, and state says homeowners can do their own electric work. I went to the building inspector with my plans, and he said no way. I read the state law and came back armed with that. Oh yeah, you just have to sign this form, then you are good. Funny, the inspection was nothing. Yep solar panels, looks good see ya. I was hoping for more actually.

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ANewMachine615 t1_ja5sjv4 wrote

> it doesn’t seem to fit in though given the rest of downtown

Why should it? Tons of architecture we love now wasn't fitting with the character of the neighborhood at the time of the original construction. Brownstones were hated in Boston, derided as cheap and cookie-cutter housing. Thank God the people who hated it didn't have the ability to make stop it. Now just think of all the stuff that we're stopping today that'd be classic and beloved in fifty years...

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