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Planning Board to review Performance Zone uses after members question saturation of self-storage, car washes and similar businesses

5811860 · September 22, 2025
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The board discussed narrowing permitted uses in the Performance Zone to reduce perceived oversupply (self-storage, car washes, certain retail) and to shape future redevelopment toward mixed-use and dining, directing staff to prepare suggested ordinance language and parking standard updates for review.

Planning Board members expressed recurring concern that the Performance (commercial) Zone allows a long list of by-right uses that encourage repetitive or low-value commercial development in Hooksett's prime corridors. At the Sept. 22 workshop the board discussed removing or narrowing certain high-frequency uses (examples cited by members: self-storage facilities, car washes, some automotive uses, vape shops, and additional new gas stations) and moving toward a narrower set of preferred uses (mixed-use…

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