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Planning board approves State Motors car wash at 275 Hooksett Road, grants parking and curbing waivers
Summary
The Manchester Planning & Zoning Board approved a site plan and conditional‑use permit Aug. 20 to allow State Motors to build a new car wash at 275 Hooksett Road, granting waivers for required parking and for sloped granite curbing and adding a condition to work with staff on potential street tree plantings.
The Manchester Planning & Zoning Board on Aug. 20 approved a site plan (SP2025‑020) and conditional‑use permit (CU2025‑022) allowing State Motors to build a new car wash at 275 Hooksett Road in the B‑2 general business district.
The approvals include a waiver of the required number of parking spaces — 45 spaces will be provided where 89 are required — and a waiver to allow sloped granite curbing along the new sidewalk instead of the city's standard vertical curbing. The board also approved related waivers for landscape, utility-plan and pedestrian‑walk submittal items and added a condition asking the applicant to work with planning staff to assess the viability of adding at least one street tree along Hooksett Road.
Keach Nordstrom engineer Matt Peterson, who presented the revised site plan, said the most…
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