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Wolfeboro planning board approves boundary line adjustment for two Island View Road parcels
Summary
The Wolfeboro Planning Board voted to grant waivers and approve a boundary line adjustment transferring roughly a half-acre to resolve a septic placement issue; recording and monumentation requirements were set as conditions.
Wolfeboro planning board members voted April 1 to approve a boundary line adjustment that transfers a roughly half-acre between two lots on Island View Road to accommodate a septic leach field installed under a previously issued shoreland permit.
The change affects 38 and 56 Island View Road (tax map 222-3 and 235-5) and was presented to the board as a formal submission and public hearing on behalf of David B. Cato, Beth Tomasello and the Philip Quartararo Revocable Trust. Randy Tetra of Norway Plains Associates said the adjustment follows a recorded easement that allowed a homeowner to install a state-approved leach field when an on-site septic failed.
The board granted waiver requests for portions of the subdivision checklist that the applicant said were redundant given existing on-file septic designs and prior shoreline permits. The waivers cited the subdivision regulations checklist items for topographic contours, percolation tests, and soil mapping (identified in the submission as sections 174.7.D.4, 174.7.D.5 and 174.7.D.6). Planning staff then read a set of nine conditions the board incorporated into its approval, including instructions to revise plan title blocks to list both property addresses, to set monumentation, and to record the final plan at the county deed registry within six months of the approval date per the recording instruction read into the record.
“The waivers were requested because both lots have already had a fully developed situation,” said Randolph R. Tetra, the applicant’s surveyor. “That information is on file with the town already with the septic designs and the shoreline permits for either lot.”
Board members voted to accept the application as complete, open the public hearing, and then approve the boundary line adjustment subject to the enumerated conditions. The final-plan requirements include submission of signed/stamped plan sheets, payment of recording fees, notation of the approved waivers on the recorded plan, and a certificate of monumentation.
The board read the appeals language required by state statute into the record and noted that failure to record the approved plan within the specified six-month period would render the approval null and void.
Why it matters: The change resolves a practical septic siting issue that followed a failed system, and it moves a lot toward shoreland compliance by adding land for the leach field away from the lake.
The planning board’s notice of decision lists the approved plan sheets by title and requires the applicant to submit final paper and electronic copies to the Office of Planning and Development prior to recording.
Speakers quoted or referenced in this article are recorded in meeting minutes and the project file.
