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Planning board approves waiver to allow overhead utilities for Salmon Falls Road subdivision
Summary
The Rochester Planning Board approved a waiver allowing overhead utilities for two lots on Salmon Falls Road after the applicant said undergrounding would require wetland disturbance; planning staff recommended denial citing the city’s 20-year undergrounding requirement. The board split, recording two nays before approving the waiver.
The Rochester Planning Board on March 2 approved a request to waive the city’s underground-utilities requirement for two lots at 871 Salmon Falls Road, a change the applicant said avoids additional wetland disturbance and aligns the subdivision with existing overhead service along the corridor.
The applicant, Peter Rizzo, told the board the frontage subdivision connects to an established roadway where most homes use overhead service and that trenching to install underground lines would cause off-site impacts and disturbance to wetlands. “Along the approximately 3-mile stretch of Salmon…
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