The Planning Board has decided that its proposal to set up a commercial overlay district on six properties along Route 28 will have to wait until next year. The decision came at the panel’s Oct. 15 meeting and apparently reflected a sense that there’s no time in the remaining months of this year to finalize the proposal and bring it to a public hearing before placement on the Town Meeting warrant for next year.
That leaves two important proposals affecting commercial zoning still to be completed.
On Tuesday, Nov. 5, the Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on its proposed stormwater regulations, which would be added to the town’s site plan review rules and would govern commercial and subdivision developments. The regulations would be applicable to all parts of the town but would be immediately important to the Route 28 area because they provide the only stormwater protection offered by a rezoning proposal that will likely go on next year’s warrant.
That rezoning would apply to two existing commercial districts (labeled C2) that currently govern the type of development that can take place in the area around the West Lake restaurant property and on a large area that includes the 7-Eleven, Trites car dealership, and Parsons Furniture store. The Planning Board has set a final public hearing on that proposal for Tuesday, November 19.
Both the November hearings will take place at the Wolfeboro Public Library starting at 7 p.m. on their respective dates.
The latest version of the stormwater regulations is available here.