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Planning Board reviews Shorefront Residential District ordinance updates, narrows redevelopment exemptions
Summary
The Wolfeboro Planning Board reviewed redline revisions to the Shorefront Residential District ordinance on April 15, clarifying that reestablishment of the 50‑foot waterfront buffer and application of the natural woodlands buffer depend on a 20% impervious‑surface threshold and that redevelopment exemptions should be tied to whether impervious coverage increases.
The Wolfeboro Planning Board spent the bulk of its April 15 work session reviewing redline edits to the Shorefront Residential District ordinance, focusing on when waterfront and woodland buffer requirements apply and how to define "lot redevelopment." Shanna Saunders, the town's interim planner, walked the board through language tying reestablishment of the waterfront buffer to a 20% impervious‑surface threshold and proposed definitions and procedural requirements for redevelopment of lots within the shoreland zone.
The discussion centered on three interlocking issues: the 20% impervious cutoff that triggers reestablishing the 50‑foot waterfront buffer; whether buffer reestablishment language should specify the ordinance's tree‑and‑shrub point system; and how to define “lot redevelopment” so applicants and staff understand when exemptions apply.
Saunders said the draft ties the requirement to reestablish the waterfront buffer to projects that “result in more than 20% impervious surface coverage,” and that the ordinance text should explicitly require reestablishment to meet the…
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