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Our Vision
for New Hampshire in 2050
From the NH Land and Community Heritage Investment Program
Board of Directors
In fifty years, we see a New Hampshire providing her citizens
with protected lands, historic buildings, and cultural resources that combine to
establish a sense of place that defines the character of our individual
communities and our state and, through its natural beauty, ecological diversity,
working lands, historic architecture and unique cultural resources, supports our
economy and enriches the quality of life for all people who visit or live in the
state.
To reach this vision, the Program seeks to achieve, both with its own resources
and by setting an example, which educates and supports others, the following
goals:
- Visually pleasing views of New Hampshire’s natural and built landscape are
provided from public roadways and trails.
- A significant portion of resident’s livelihood comes from working forests and
farmlands and a tourism economy based on cultural/heritage and recreation.
- Residential, commercial and industrial development is planned and implemented
in a manner that sustains natural resources and protects historic and cultural
resources and all communities in NH have developed, and are implementing, a plan
for the protection of its important buildings and open land resources.
- A large percentage of communities have maintained their traditional town
centers, with community buildings, small locally-owned shops and green space
available for local and visiting people while re-development of downtown areas
in our cities is common-place.
- Every community has saved or protected cherished historic buildings or
parcels of undeveloped land that defines it as unique.
- New Hampshire’s natural landscape provides clean air and water, and other
ecological values to all who reside or visit here.
- All citizens treasure our natural and historic built environment and embrace
the vision.
- Enough high quality soil and agricultural land is protected & in production
to supply 15% of the food needs of NH’s population.
- Enough forest land is perpetually available for multiple uses such that there
is still a large enough forest products industry utilizing these forest
resources to supply NH citizens with all their forest products needs.
- Specimen period architecture, structures and places of historic significance
survive in every community.
- A representative sample of all natural communities exist across the landscape
and are protected permanently for the purpose of sustaining natural ecological
functions.
- All significant 19th/early 20th century industrial buildings are reused or
recycled for “vital” community use.
- There are scenic vistas and undeveloped frontage on every state highway.
- Each village has a distinctive center and defining feature.
- NH’s industrial heritage is protected in many communities across the state.
- NH's water resources will be protected and access to these resources will be
provided for all water users.