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Goffstown Planning Board asks Ware developers to keep construction traffic off Parker Station Road
Summary
At a special meeting the Goffstown Planning Board concurred with a Southern New Hampshire Planning Commission review of the Ware subdivision and voted to request a condition of approval that construction traffic not use Parker Station Road, citing road-quality concerns and existing 'no through trucking' postings.
The Goffstown Planning Board voted to concur with a November 21 Southern New Hampshire Planning Commission (SNHPC) letter about the Ware subdivision and asked staff to send an official comment requesting a condition of approval that construction traffic avoid Parker Station Road.
Board members received the SNHPC letter as correspondence at the start of the meeting and discussed whether SNHPC had been asked to review impacts on Goffstown. Town staff and the town engineer, Scott Ozzana, said the SNHPC review flagged access-related concerns but the traffic counts provided did not indicate a large traffic increase for Goffstown. "The numbers didn't scare me at all. I don't think it'll be an issue," Ozzana said, while noting the study relied on a traffic counter placed north of the development rather than south of it.
Several members pressed the point that heavy trucks have been observed using Parker Station Road despite posted restrictions, and that road-condition impacts from construction hauling are a legitimate planning concern. "We concur with the recommendation made in the letter of Southern New Hampshire Planning and, additionally, request a condition that the trucking not be on Goffstown Parker Station Road," said Barbara Griffin during a motion to formalize the board's comment. The motion asked staff to prepare a signed letter for the board and to include language making construction traffic routing a condition of approval.
Chair Charlie Farley confirmed the motion and the board moved it; the transcript records the motion as passing. The board did not adopt an enforcement mechanism — members noted that local police handle on-the-ground enforcement of posted no‑trucking signs — but they said including routing conditions and participation in pre-construction meetings would give the town leverage to protect road quality.
The planning board asked staff to forward the board's concurrence and the request for a Parker Station Road trucking restriction to Ware's planning staff and to SNHPC.
What happens next: The board requested that staff prepare and send an official comment under the chair's signature. The SNHPC letter and the board's concurrence will be part of the record for Ware's application as it proceeds through the originating jurisdiction's process.
