Planning board approves Whitehall Northeast warehouse with conditions after neighborhood concerns

The Hooksett Planning Board on Oct. 20 conditionally approved Whitehall Northeast Realty’s site plan for a large warehouse at 267 Londonderry Turnpike, granting waivers for driveway site-distance and reduced parking while attaching conditions intended to limit impacts on nearby homes.

Board members said the firm addressed several design issues since an earlier hearing, and the board voted to approve required waivers and the site plan with conditions including required lighting dimming, specific landscaping revisions, limits on truck activity during evening hours, and standard stormwater / utilities sign-offs.

Board chair and other members emphasized the project will remain subject to town permits and to the New Hampshire Department of Transportation driveway review. The approval covers a site that will include a roughly 44,000-square-foot warehouse footprint and landscaping, with a 2-foot berm topped by an 8-foot fence shown on the plans.

Why it matters: Abutters said the proposed building is large and abuts rear yards of nearby residences; they raised repeated concerns about night lighting, visual intrusion from the building mass, runoff and the possibility that blasting or grading could affect private…