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Planning Board and Heritage Commission debate historic recognition, recommend against 79-E for village homes

5811860 · September 22, 2025
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Board and Heritage Commission members discussed a Heritage Neighborhood option, nomination to the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places (RSA 227-C:33), and concluded that the RSA 79-E tax incentive is unlikely to be useful for primarily residential village properties; members recommended other, less restrictive recognition paths.

Planning Board members and heritage commissioners on Monday discussed multiple paths for recognizing historic assets in Hooksett's village and debated whether to pursue the RSA 79-E renovation tax exemption in the village district.

Heritage Commission representatives outlined two separate ideas: (1) a "heritage neighborhood" overlay that would set agreed boundaries and locally developed rules for sections of the village, and (2) nomination of individual properties or a smaller collection of properties to the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places (RSA 227-C:33). The Heritage…

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