land use

This presentation will focus on City of Dover’s Transfer of Development Rights Ordinance and how it could be adapted to other communities to allow development to grow organically while also preserving greenspaces.

• Donna Benton, City of Dover, Planning and Community Development Director
• Ryan Pope, City of Dover, Community Housing Navigator

Program Agenda

9:00 am – Introduction

9:05 am – 10:20 am - The ZBA in NH
This session will provide a detailed look at the statutory responsibilities of the ZBA including appeals of administrative decisions, equitable waivers, special exceptions, and variances. This session will also provide an in-depth discussion of how the case law interprets the five variance criteria.  Time will be devoted to participant questions.
Chris Boldt, Esquire, DTC Lawyers

Program Agenda

9:00 am – Introduction

Closed landfills are a long-term liability for municipalities because they can create environmental and other problems that negatively impact residents and visitors. Landfill property owners, including municipalities, are responsible for the costs of cleanup up environmental contamination. Many New Hampshire towns have more than one closed landfill – one that long-time residents remember using (often located near the current transfer station) and one or more that was used before that. Municipal officials need to know about and maintain all of them.

There were several bills introduced last session that sought to address issues regarding affordable housing development. House Bill 1661 was the omnibus bill to survive and contains new provisions that will encourage affordable housing and require land use boards to improve transparency and speed up the local approval process.