NH Supreme Court Reverses Superior Court’s Decision Upholding Conditions Placed on Church’s Special Exception Regarding Occupancy & Hours of Operation; Affirms Superior Court’s Decision to Dismiss Constitutional Claims and Grant Wetlands Special Exception
The Christ Redeemer Church (Church) in Hanover purchased a set of lots on a two-lane road with a thirty-mile-per-hour speed limit and roughly 3,100-vehicle daily traffic and in 2018 applied to Hanover’s Zoning Board of Adjustments (ZBA) for special exceptions from the town’s zoning ordinance to build a permanent church there (it had previously operated out of rented space at Hanover High School).