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Board approves small shoreline-buffer disturbance for accessible trail at Merrimack River conservation area
Summary
The zoning board unanimously granted a variance allowing the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forest to permanently disturb up to 255 square feet of the 75-foot shoreland protection buffer to construct an accessible turnaround and benches at the Merrimack River Outdoor Education and Conservation Area trail.
The Concord Zoning Board of Adjustment unanimously approved a variance to allow a small, permanent disturbance of the shoreland protection buffer at the Merrimack River Outdoor Education and Conservation Area so the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forest can construct an accessible turnaround and two benches at a river-view point.
Dylan Summers, representing the Forest Society, told the board the project upgrades roughly a quarter-mile of trail to federal accessible-trail standards and that the requested disturbance—about 255 square feet—would be required to create a turning area…
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