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See Also:
New Hampshire Revised Statutes Online Lookup
Planning Library:
Subdivision and Site Plan Review Handbook
The Law
Governing Earth Excavations - A Handbook for NH Municipalities
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Roles and Responsibilities of
Land Use Boards in New Hampshire
SELECTMEN
Executive Powers:
- The town's executive branch – they manage the prudential
affairs of the town, carrying out the votes enacted at Town
Meeting.
- Prepares town warrant and budget.
- Prepares annual report and publishes reports of all other
officers.
Substantive:
- Regulation of town highways
- Layout of highways
- Manage and regulate town property.
- License junkyards
- Order demolition of hazardous buildings.
- Act as code enforcement officer.
- Act as health offices
- Enforce the zoning ordinance and other land use regulations,
as dictated by those regulations.
- Administer the building permit process.
PLANNING
BOARD
Adopt, Amend, Administer:
- Subdivision Regulations
- Site Plan Review Regulations
- Excavation Regulations
- Driveway Regulations
Develop and Maintain Master Plan
Amend Zoning Ordinance
Prepare
Capital Improvements Program
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
- Hear appeals from administrative decisions
- Hear applications for special exemptions in the zoning
ordinance.
- Hear appeals for a variance from the terms of the zoning
ordinance.
- Grant equitable waivers for dimensional requirements.
- If authorized to act as Building Code Board of Appeals, hear
appeals to vary provisions of the building code.
CONSERVATION COMMISSION
- The only local board specifically charged with protection of
the natural resources of the municipality.
- May advise the Planning Board or other local bodies on
conservation matters.
- Conduct research
- Coordinate activities of unofficial bodies with similar
purposes.
- Keep an index of all open space and natural areas in town.
- May undertake to designate, map and document prime wetlands.
- Opportunity to comment on state wetlands permits.
- Opportunity to comment on excavation applications.
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