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Planning board approves Huggins Hospital MRI addition with minor waivers and conditions
Summary
The Wolfeboro Planning Board granted requested waivers and approved a roughly 1,600-square-foot addition to Huggins Hospital to house a permanent MRI, along with five ADA parking spaces and limited site work, subject to standard plan-submission, erosion-control and as-built requirements.
The Wolfeboro Planning Board on April 1 approved a site-plan submission from Huggins Hospital for a roughly 1,600-square-foot addition to house a permanent MRI unit, five new ADA parking spaces, and modest site work, after granting several waivers the applicant asked for because of the campus-scale setting.
Garrett Seibert, project engineer with Nobis Group, described the addition and associated mechanical screening, two building-mounted lights and one pole-mounted light for the new parking area. The hospital’s design will add a small amount of impervious surface; Seibert said the project would tie into existing drainage and the engineering check showed negligible impact to peak flows. The board granted five waivers that the applicant requested to avoid a full boundary survey and certain checklist items that the applicant said would add little value to a campus-located, small-footprint project.
The waivers, read into the record, covered not showing surveyed property lines on the site plan, a full abutters depiction on the overall plan due to campus scale, mapping of nearby private wells/septic when the site is served by municipal water and sewer, surveying-line-based setbacks, and a limited snow-storage waiver given the small increase in parking. The board approved the requested waivers and then accepted the application as complete.
“Absolutely,” Seibert said when asked whether the existing sewer and drainage system could handle the modest additional loading from the addition.
The public hearing was opened and no members of the public spoke; the board approved the application with a standard set of conditions and as-built plan requirements. Conditions include submission of final signed and stamped plans (two 24x36 black-line sets, one 11x17 set and an electronic PDF), coordination with Wolfeboro Municipal Electric for any added power needs, erosion-control installation and maintenance during construction, as-built plan submission at project completion, payment of recording fees, limited vesting/vesting-start language (substantial start within 24 months for vesting), and that the applicant shall not increase sanitary sewer load beyond existing limits without separate approval.
Why it matters: The hospital will gain a permanent MRI room and more reliable on-site diagnostic capability than a temporary or mobile unit, and the project is small in scale with standard town-level oversight.
The board directed planning staff to ensure the applicant provides final drawings and the as-built submission when construction is complete; the approval includes the statutory appeals language read into the record.
