Zoning board approves car-wash plan that fills 965 sq. ft. of wetlands at 1317–1319 Hooksett Road

The Hooksett Zoning Board of Adjustment on the evening of the meeting approved two special-exception applications to allow wetland fill behind a proposed single-tunnel car wash at 1317 and 1319 Hooksett Road.

Engineer Chris York of GPI described the project as a roughly 5,000-square-foot single-tunnel car wash reused on the existing auto wholesaler site, with three pay lanes, 24–25 vacuum stalls in front and a bypass lane that doubles as a 20-foot fire access. He told the board the proposal would remove over an acre of impervious pavement, reroute a manmade drainage swale into a 36-inch culvert with riprap, and that runoff currently routed to a town catch basin would continue to discharge to the town drainage system after installation of a stormwater treatment system. York said the project proposed 965 square feet of wetland impact split between the two lots, and that the applicant had preliminary signoff from the Planning and Conservation commissions and had filed an application with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental…