I’m Edwin Parsons and I respectfully request that you vote for me for the Hull Planning Board.

As a Hull Village native citizen of our awesome community, I am deeply connected to Hull through my many friends and relatives and volunteer activities.

If elected as a member of the planning board, I will support the mission of Hull to recognize, protect, and enhance the qualities of the natural resources that make Hull such an unusual and beautiful environment, and preserve our town’s identity as a friendly, neighborhood-scaled, family-oriented, relatively affordable residential community. I respect the unique characteristics of Hull’s separate and distinct neighborhoods.

I am a “Hull Kid” who graduated from the Hull schools a long time ago and served in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam era, and served the United States Postal Service for more than 30 years.

I currently serve as an associate member of the zoning board of appeals and the affordable housing committee.

I am experienced and able to further serve the Town of Hull in order to finally implement some very important planning initiatives that have been proposed and/or approved, but somehow have failed to be achieved.

Big-picture planning projects that I support include:

1. Relocation of town offices to the centrally located Memorial building, which will free up town property at 253 Atlantic Avenue and allow for a public/private partnership to reconstruct the former town hall property into affordable housing for Hull seniors and veterans directly across the street from the Hull Housing Authority senior and veterans housing.

2. Planning and potential construction of a new combined public safety facility for police and fire first responders to be expanded in the immediate neighborhood of the Central Fire Station at A Street, which prioritizes response times for all our citizens in need of emergency services based upon location, location, location.

3. Providing town residents with a public beach access area similar to Hingham beach at the two-acre Hull Redevelopment Authority property Lot 1 location, alongside the Phipps Street neighborhood. This location can provide expansion of the monument area at Veterans Memorial Park to the oceanfront Department of Conservation and Recreation property and provide residents with beach parking and a community center for indoor and outdoor open space and recreational use.

The location of a community center at the former Hull Redevelopment Authority office building area at Samoset Avenue and Quincy Street.

My experience on the Hull and Marshfield zoning boards of appeals will be helpful for the Town of Hull’s future plans as well as property owners’ future plans that require planning board reviews and approvals, and oversight of the Hull zoning bylaw’s regulations and amendments.

Please support my experience, qualifications, and leadership abilities to make competent, thoughtful decisions that will help Hull taxpayers and residents.

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