Lisa Marie St. Godard – Planning Commission

When looking to become first-time homeowners, Lisa and her husband searched for over a year and a half to find the right community to build their life together. “We were looking for a town with charm and safety, but we found much more than that in Charlestown. We are thrilled to be residents of this beautiful community; we love this town and hope to live here for all the decades until retirement and beyond.” As a resident of the western edge of Charlestown, Lisa has a front row seat on the current operations at the large granite quarry just over the border in Westerly and the effect that bad land use planning can have on neighbors and natural resources. Lisa was an appointed member of the Planning Commission in 2019, serving until November 2020, where she participated in the writing of Charlestown’s Comprehensive Plan, which guides land use in the town for the next 20 years. “As a person who came of age at the millennium, my point of reference for the future is at least 40 years ahead. The Comprehensive Plan lays out the future of our town. For me, the future is not an abstraction; the future is where I will live. I know in the decades ahead there will be change in Charlestown. As a member of the Planning Commission I will work to promote preservation of natural resources, to manage growth, and to do my best to help Charlestown remain a place where residents, including me, will love to live.”