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Developer asks ZBA for parking change and buffer reduction at University Vista; conservation commission tables recommendation pending DES review
Summary
Jeff Berg, project engineer with JB Engineering, asked the Hooksett Conservation Commission to endorse moving planned parking into the Campus Drive cul‑de‑sac and to accept about 6,000 square feet of wetland buffer impacts caused by a beaver‑built pond at the University Vista townhouse site.
Jeff Berg, project engineer with JB Engineering, asked the Hooksett Conservation Commission to endorse two changes to the University Vista townhouse master plan: move the off-site parking shown on the master plan to 15 spaces around the Campus Drive cul‑de‑sac, and to accept buffer impacts created by an enlarged beaver pond that the developer says now adds roughly 6,000 square feet of buffer disturbance. The developer also described replacing a proposed gravity sewer alignment with a sewer pump station to avoid larger wetland impacts.
The developer said the beaver activity has raised water levels and expanded wetland buffers. “We'd be impacting about 5,000 square feet of buffer impact along that stretch there,” Jeff Berg said, adding that the combined impacts on the project are about 6,000…
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