Town Of Bow: Bow Planning Board Public Hearing On Zoning Amendments

Press release from the Town of Bow:

December 21, 2021

To consider placing the following amendments to the Zoning Ordinance on the Town Warrant:

A.           To delete Section 5.11.H.6b requirements for a Conditional Use Permit for Minor/Pre-Development Excavation of Earth materials and amend Section 14.05.B to allow the Planning Board set the expiration date for approvals for excavation. 

B.           To delete Sections 5.11.A2 (Duplex or Two Family) and 5.11.A3 (Multi-Family) uses and renumber consecutive sections accordingly. Also, to delete Section 7.05.B for Duplex and multifamily dwellings in the “RU” and “R” districts in its entirety. 

C.           Several housekeeping amendments: to delete all references to the Bow Business (BD) District in Sections 4.01(A), 5.11, 6.07, and 8.08, as the BD District no longer exists; to delete Section 7.02(B)(7), as it is a duplicate of Section 7.02(B)(5), and to correct the name of the reference to the Town of Bow Building Code in Section 14.02(A).

D.          To amend Section 10.03(G)(7) reduce the number of plan copies, from three to one, to be submitted for an Aquifer Protection Conditional Use Permit application. 

E.           To add Section 8.11 to allow changeable copy signs, in accordance with US Supreme Court decision.  

The text of the proposed amendments is available for review on the Town website https://www.bownh.gov/355/Proposed-Zoning-Ordinance-Amendments and at the Bow Community Development Office.

You may attend this meeting for the purpose of presenting your comments on any action the Planning Board may take concerning these proposed amendments.  

If you have any questions or need special assistance to attend the meeting, please contact Matt Taylor, Community Development Director at (603) 223-3971.

This press release was produced by the Town of Bow. The views expressed here are the author’s own.