Charlestown Planning Commission Candidates
These candidates will bring education, experience, science, and a commitment to conservation to the elected Planning Commission.
The top vote getter will serve as a full voting member. The next two top vote getters will be elected as alternates. Alternates participate fully in all Planning Commission discussions and vote in the absence of a full voting member.
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Walter “Peter” Mahony
Walter is a current member of the Planning Commission and an award winning professional planner with architecture and planning degrees from Princeton and Cambridge Universities and a 40-year career in planning and landscape design that has focused on the sustainable balance between development and land preservation. Walter has lived here full time for 10 years, but he has a lifelong history of participating in various struggles to preserve our town’s unique character and valuable natural assets.
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September 8, 2022 @ 8:46 pm
If most of the residents of Charlestown are satisfied with the way the town is set up as shown in the townwide survey, the Planning Commission has been the guiding hand that earned their satisfaction. Just about all the long term vision implemented by the planning commission has been reflected in the high degree of satisfaction of the residents. These three candidates support the Comprehensive Plan and have the capability to carry out its objectives.