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Planning Board Meeting

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Tuesday, January 15, 2019 - 6:00pm
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ALTON PLANNING BOARD
Tuesday, January 15, 2019, 6:00 p.m.
ALTON TOWN HALL
AGENDA
Call to Order

Approval of Agenda

1. Public Hearing pursuant to RSA 675:3 on proposed 2019 Zoning Ordinance Amendments
SEE SEPARATE NOTICE ATTACHED

2. Continued from November 20, 2018

Case # P18-04
JOBEAN, LLC/Dean Puzzo, Manager
Map 26 Lot 10, Final Minor Site Plan Review
Residential Commercial (RC) Zone, 19 Homestead Place, Suite 5

Proposal: To replace the existing #32 Homestead Place retail/office building with a new 3,600 s.f. single story retail/office building.

3. Continued from December 18, 2018

Case # P18-30
Paul F. Zuzgo, LLS, of Prospect Mountain Survey, Agent for Gregory Kneeland, Owner
Map 8 Lot 47, Final Minor Subdivision
Residential Commercial (RC), 81 Range Road

Proposal: To subdivide the current Lot 47 into two lots consisting of 5.03 and 7.60 acres each. There are no further plans for development.

4. Conceptual Consultation

Case # P19-01
Thomas W. Varney, P.E., of Varney Engineering, LLC, Agent for Keith Babb of Green Oak Realty, Owner
Map 5 Lot 72, Conceptual Consultation
Rural (RU) Zone, Suncook Valley Road

Proposal: To expand the excavation pit.

Case # P19-03
Ryan Heath of Ryan L. Heath, LLC, Owner
Map 8 Lot 25, Conceptual Consultation
Residential Rural (RR) Zone, 182 Frank C. Gilman Hgwy.

Proposal: To change ownership from rental to condominiums on the existing approved senior housing development.

Other Business:

1. Old Business:

2. New Business:

3. Approval of Minutes: December 18, 2018

4. Correspondence for the Board's review/discussion/action:

a. Case P19-02, Voluntary Lot Merger Application for Douglas T. & Jane W. Cook, Map 46 Lots 14 & 15, 223 & 225 Damon Drive, Alton, NH 03809.

5. Correspondence for the Board's information:

a. Letter dated December 17, 2018, from NH DOT re: resurfacing project on NH Route 11 and NH Route 28 in the towns of Alton, Wolfeboro, Farmington, and Rochester.

b. NHMA Court Update re: Planning Boards cannot rely upon lay opinions and anecdotes refuted by uncontroverted expert evidence. Planning Boards cannot supplant the specific regulations and ordinances that control the site plan review process with their own personal feelings.

6. Any Other Business that may come before the Board:

Public Input on Non-Case Specific Local Planning Issues

Adjournment

Roger Sample, Planning Board Chairman

NS/jac

1/3/2019

Revised 1/11/2019

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TOWN OF ALTON, N.H.
Alton Planning Board
Notice of Public Hearings
Zoning Ordinance

Notice is hereby given that the ALTON PLANNING BOARD will hold PUBLIC HEARINGS on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, starting at 6:00 p.m. in the ALTON TOWN HALL, ALTON, NH to consider proposed and petitioned amendments to the Zoning Ordinance, as follows:
PUBLIC HEARING AT 6:00 P.M. ON A PETITION TO AMEND THE ALTON ZONING ORDINANCE:
A petition signed by 25 registered voters in the Town of Alton has been submitted and accepted by the Board of Selectmen as being in correct warrant article form. This petition proposes an amendment to the Alton Zoning Ordinance, Article 400 Zoning District Regulations, Section 410 Lakeshore Residential District, Section 412, Restrictions Governing Use.
PUBLIC HEARING IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING ON CHANGES AND ADDITIONS TO THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE ZONING ORDINANCE BY THE PLANNING BOARD RESULTING FROM THE FIRST PUBLIC HEARING ON DECEMBER 18, 2018:
Proposed Amendment #3. To amend the applicability of the Stormwater Management regulations to apply to building construction or lot development on land of any size where the slope of land is greater than 15%, or less than 15% within 20' of the top of a 15% slope.
Proposed Amendment #4. To allow the new Product Storage Area use in the Residential Commercial District by right.
Copies of the full text of the 2019 Amendments to the Alton Zoning Ordinance proposed by the Planning Board are available free of charge from the Planning Department during regular business hours, are posted at the Post Office and Town Hall for viewing purposes only, and can be found on the Town of Alton website www.alton.nh.gov.
If inclement weather necessitates cancelling the public hearings, then the public hearings will be continued to a "snow date" of Wednesday, January 16, 2018, starting at 6:00 P.M. in the ALTON TOWN HALL, ALTON, NH. A notice shall be posted on the front door of Town Hall announcing the meeting cancellation on January 15th and the continued meeting date of January 16th.
12/31/18

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