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Votes at a glance: Planning Board approves minutes, grants two wetland permits and accepts site plan for consideration
Summary
At its March 26 meeting the Portsmouth Planning Board adopted the Feb. 19 minutes, accepted a site-plan application for 134 Pleasant Street for consideration, and granted wetland conditional-use permits for Little Harbor playground upgrades and the Portsmouth Elks Lodge deck replacement; the 134 Pleasant application was continued pending City Council review of access across a city parcel.
The Portsmouth Planning Board took several formal actions on March 26.
- Minutes: The board approved the minutes of its Feb. 19 meeting; one member abstained due to absence.
- Application completeness: The Planning Board voted to determine the site-plan application for 134 Pleasant Street (DoubleMC LLC) complete and accepted it for consideration, enabling the public hearing and subsequent deliberations.
- Wetland conditional‑use permits: The board voted to find that the Little Harbor Elementary School/Pete Playground upgrade met ordinance criteria and granted the wetland conditional‑use permit with staff conditions. The board likewise found that the Portsmouth Elks Lodge permit application met requirements and granted that permit with staff conditions; one board member recused from the Elks vote.
- Site-plan procedural action: For 134 Pleasant Street the board recommended the applicant’s preferred driveway configuration and asked City Council to consider a license for the Parrot Avenue parcel; the board continued final action to its April meeting to give Council time to respond and to allow the applicant to provide pending technical permit-stage materials.
For record-keeping: motions and votes were made on the floor; the transcript records motion/second language and outcomes, but exact vote tallies were not always read into the record and so are noted as not specified where absent from the transcript.
