Hooksett planners favorable to residential concept for 1143 Hooksett Road; developer seeks permission to build eight condos

The Hooksett Planning Board on Monday discussed a conceptual site plan from Genesis Systems LLC for an eight‑unit condominium at 1143 Hooksett Road, a 1.3‑acre parcel now zoned as a performance (commercial/industrial) zone.

Developer Jay Arhol, owner of Genesis Systems, told the board the plan would remove the Hooksett Road driveway and rely on a single access from Mammoth Road, include a fire‑truck turnaround, provide two parking spaces per unit (one in a garage and one in a driveway) and add about eight visitor spaces. “The site's proposed for an 8 unit multi family condominium residential,” Arhol said as he summarized the concept.

Board members framed the discussion as a conceptual review rather than a formal application. The nut graf: Planning board members said the proposed residential use is consistent with surrounding development and gave the developer a green light to pursue formal engineering and waiver requests, but they raised design, grading and landscaping questions the applicant must resolve in…