Keene panels amend rezoning request for parcels near Winchester roundabout, set public hearing

The Planning Board and the Planning, Licenses and Development Committee on July 28 reviewed ordinance O-2025-28, a petition to rezone eight parcels on Pearl and Winchester streets from low-density residential to Commerce zoning. After public comment raising concerns about traffic, flooding and neighborhood character, committee members amended the petition to remove three parcels from the proposed rezoning and voted to ask the mayor to set a public hearing on the amended ordinance.

The petition, introduced by consultant John Noonan of Fieldstone Land Consultants on behalf of petitioner Adam Wright, would change the zoning for parcels described in the ordinance and listed in the staff packet. The total area described in the original petition was approximately 2.6–2.7 acres. Noonan said the parcels sit adjacent to existing commerce zoning and municipal water and sewer and that the recent…