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Manchester board debates shrinking downtown service district, requests financial breakdown
Summary
CBSD advisory board discussed whether to shrink or keep the Central Business Special District, weighing cleaning coverage, tax impacts on commercial properties and service equity. Board requested staff provide a breakdown of assessments by area and a list of anchor properties that contribute the most revenue.
Board members discussed redrawing the Central Business Special District boundary to better match where cleaning and activation services are delivered and to reduce what some described as an oversized service area. No boundary change was approved; board members asked staff for more financial detail before considering any formal vote.
Kristen, a senior planner in the city’s planning and community development office, explained proposed zoning categories that city planners are using in the zoning rewrite and how new “DT” downtown districts — DT‑1 and DT‑2 — would distinguish more and less intense downtown uses. “The Downtown 2 every time a number gets larger it means it’s more intense,” Kristen said, describing DT‑2 as the city core with…
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