Planning board accepts 24 Shore Drive application as complete, sends plans to Conservation Commission

GREENLAND, N.H. — The Greenland Planning Board on May 1 accepted as complete an application for a conditional-use permit at 24 Shore Drive and voted to continue the hearing to the board’s June 19 meeting after the Conservation Commission reviews the proposal.

The application from the property owner, Gordon Sims, seeks permission to build a 25-by-40-foot detached garage partly within the town’s wetland buffers. H. Libby, an engineer with Jones & Beach Engineers, told the board the proposed buffer disturbance is “less than a thousand square feet” and that the structural footprint “is [about] 7.63” (as reported on the plan). Libby said the garage location was chosen because the leach field and multiple wetland buffers constrain other buildable areas on the just-under-5-acre lot.

The board’s decision to accept the filing as complete followed questions about whether the application should be routed to the Conservation Commission first. Planner Mark (last name not given on the transcript) and board members agreed the Conservation Commission should review the buffer impacts; the commission is expected to take up the plan on June 3 so its written recommendations can be available before the Planning Board’s next public hearing.

Why it matters: The project sits inside both town wetland buffers and the…