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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Carol Ann Mossa
Carol is an award winning photographer, writer and publisher as well as a local small business owner who has lived in Charlestown for 11 years and loves our unique, small town character. Her education, with both an MFA and MBA combines art and business. Carol’s combined life experience of exploring, creating, editing, teaching, and managing businesses makes her well qualified to serve on the Planning Commission where she can understand the needs of business and balance that against the cultural, aesthetic and environmental impacts on our community.
Lisa Marie St Godard
Lisa served on the Planning Commission from 2019 to 2020 where she worked on Charlestown’s Comprehensive Plan and advocated for Charlestown’s environment and beautiful small town character. As a resident of the western edge of Charlestown, Lisa has a front row seat on 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 works as a Planner at Electric Boat and has lived in Charlestown for 6 years.
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.