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Planning board conditionally approves Commercial Street lot‑line adjustment, grants four waivers
Summary
The Boscawen Planning Board on Feb. 3 conditionally approved a Conditional Use Permit tied to a Lot Line Adjustment on Commercial Street, granted four waiver requests and required deeds be recorded within 90 days for the adjustment to become legal.
The Boscawen Planning Board on Feb. 3 conditionally approved a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) for properties on Commercial Street and granted a Lot Line Adjustment (LLA) with a requirement that deeds be recorded within 90 days.
Tim Bernier of Hoyle Tanner Associates told the board the property was originally subdivided in 1999 and that the proposal would move the lot line 52 feet so both owners have access to the ends of their buildings. The change would create a minimum side yard setback of 49 feet (where a 0‑foot setback had previously been approved) and a minimum lot area of 27,573 square feet (previously 12,091 sq ft). Bernier summarized four waiver requests that are part of the application.
Applicant Walter Dratner said he needs side access to his building, wants to preserve the history of his structure and to "clean up the lots." With no abutters present, the board opened and closed the CUP public hearing and reviewed the four standards of review. Vice Chair Josh Crawford moved to conditionally approve the CUP as compliant with the Zoning Ordinance and the Town’s Land Development Regulations, conditioned on approval of the Lot Line Adjustment; the motion passed unanimously.
At a subsequent hearing the board approved all four requested waivers: (1) Sec. 4.1.9 building/wetlands/shoreland setbacks, (2) Sec. 6.4.3.H wetlands delineation, (3) a partial waiver for the Topographic Survey under Sec. 6.5.2, and (4) Sec. 6.5.4 steep slopes. Barbara Randall moved each waiver and the motions carried with no opposition.
The board then conditionally approved the Lot Line Adjustment, with the explicit condition that deed transfers must be recorded within 90 days of the plan being recorded. Chair Loren Martin reminded the applicant that the LLA is not legally effective until the deeds are transferred and recorded at the Merrimack County Registry of Deeds.
What happens next: the applicants must record the deeds within 90 days for the lot‑line change to be legally effective. The Planning Board recorded the approvals and did not receive public comment at the hearings.
