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Manchester board approves conversion to add three affordable units at Carpenter Center
Summary
The Manchester Planning & Zoning Board approved a conditional-use permit to convert interior space at the Carpenter Center, adding three income-restricted units (one ground-floor ADA unit and two units converted from an eleventh-floor community room). One member recused.
The Manchester Planning & Zoning Board on Thursday approved CU2025-009, allowing the owner to convert interior commercial and communal space at the Carpenter Center, 323 Franklin St., into three residential units — a 703-square-foot ground-floor ADA-accessible unit and two units made from an eleventh-floor community room.
The application was presented by Amy Chom of the Chom Group LLC on behalf of Carpenter Affordable Housing LLC. Chom said the building is an existing affordable-housing property with 97 units and that the proposed conversions would bring the total to 100 units without any exterior changes. She described the eleventh-floor community room as long, narrow and underused and said the owner relocated community amenities to a more accessible first-floor space.
Why it matters: Board members and staff framed the request as a modest increase in affordable housing and as a way to add an ADA-accessible ground-floor unit in a…
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