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Seabrook council advances ordinances to allow engineered shipping‑container pools; limits set to reduce neighborhood impact
Summary
After public hearings, the council approved first readings to amend zoning and the swimming pool code to permit engineered shipping‑container pools (with conditions) and to adopt the 2021 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code; one council member opposed the zoning‑ordinance amendment on first reading.
Seabrook city staff and the Planning & Zoning Commission presented proposed code amendments Oct. 7 to allow an alternative construction method using shipping storage containers for above‑ground and below‑ground swimming pools and to adopt the 2021 edition of the International Swimming Pool and Spa Code.
The council held two connected public hearings: one to amend Appendix A, Article 2, Section 2.3.5 of the Seabrook Code of Ordinances (prohibited uses) to create a special exception permitting shipping containers in pool construction, and a second to amend Chapter 18, Division 9 (swimming pools) to adopt technical standards and the alternative construction method. Planning staff said the amendments grew from a…
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