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Plaistow zoning board denies rehearing request for Westville Road trailer-storage variance
Summary
On Jan. 2, 2025 the Plaistow Zoning Board of Appeal rejected a motion to grant a rehearing for Strategic Real Estate Management LLC’s variance request to use 45 Westville Road as an overflow trailer/parking lot, citing procedural and substantive concerns including lack of new evidence, noise data questions and neighborhood character.
PLAISTOW, N.H. — The Plaistow Zoning Board of Appeal voted 4–0 on Jan. 2, 2025, to deny a request to grant a rehearing of Strategic Real Estate Management LLC’s variance application to use 45 Westville Road (Tax Map 26, Lot 36) as an overflow satellite parking lot and long-term trailer storage.
The board said the rehearing request did not present the legal error or new evidence required to reopen the case. “The only reasons the only reason to do a rehearing is if we errored in our application of the law or if there is new information presented,” said Peter Beelaw, chair, summarizing the board’s threshold for rehearing. The board found neither condition met.
Why it matters: The property owner sought a variance to allow dozens of tractor-trailer units to be stored outdoors on a lot in the town’s Commercial 1 zone; abutters had raised concerns about noise, traffic and…
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