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Zoning board chair asks planning board to clarify mandatory water‑hookup rule and village setback standard
Summary
Suzanne Ryan, chair of the Wolfeboro Zoning Board of Adjustment, asked the Planning Board on March 4 to clarify or remove a vague mandatory water‑hookup provision (Section 175‑83) and to revisit a 30‑foot maximum front setback in the village residential district (Section 175‑70) because both, she said, create practical conflicts for applicants.
At the March 4 Wolfeboro Planning Board meeting, Suzanne Ryan, chair of the Zoning Board of Adjustment, urged the planning board to address two zoning/code items that the ZBA says cause confusion for applicants: a mandatory water‑hookup requirement and a 30‑foot maximum front setback in the village residential district.
Ryan said the mandatory water‑hookup language in Section 175‑83 is currently vague — the code requires a water hookup but no longer specifies a clear distance or threshold for triggering that requirement. “You used to have a dimension in…
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