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Planning board rejects request to lower Riverside Landing affordable-unit requirement; denies impact fee challenge as untimely
Summary
The board declined a developer’s request to reduce required workforce units at Riverside Landing from 25% to 10% and denied the developer’s separate effort to reclaim previously assessed school and recreation impact fees as untimely under RSA 677:15.
The Bedford Planning Board on July 14 rejected Draco Properties’ request to reduce the affordable‑housing requirement at the Riverside Landing redevelopment at 66 Hawthorne Drive from 25% to 10%, and separately denied the applicant’s request to waive or refund school and recreation impact fees as untimely.
Pat Panciaco, attorney for the applicant, told the board the project had been reconfigured from a former assisted‑living facility into an 85‑unit multifamily development and argued the town’s March zoning amendment reducing workforce requirements from 25% to 10% should apply. Panciaco presented a fiscal impact analysis prepared for the applicant that argued the converted property had historically produced…
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