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City presents zoning ordinance rewrite engagement results: 1,499 surveys and 1,013 meeting participants
Summary
Planning staff and University of New Hampshire partners reported results from a months-long public engagement campaign on a proposed rewrite of Manchester's zoning ordinance: 1,499 survey responses and 1,013 attendees at 12 ward meetings. The planning department will use the feedback to produce a second draft with a proposed 60-day public review.
City planning staff and University of New Hampshire partners presented the public engagement results for a proposed rewrite of Manchester’s zoning ordinance, reporting nearly 1,500 survey responses and more than 1,000 participants at 12 ward-level community meetings.
The outreach, led by the planning department with UNH’s Survey Center and Cooperative Extension, produced quantitative and qualitative information the city said it will use to revise the first draft of the ordinance. “We published the first draft on June 21 and then asked people to weigh in,” Jeff Belanger, planning staff lead, said. “Now we have a lot of data to guide edits.”
Why it matters: the rewrite would update decades-old land-use rules and could change what types of housing and commercial…
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